Round one goes to New York Times
Douglas Bell of Toronto Life looks at the newspaper war between The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times in the aftermath of News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch‘s purchase of the Journal and gives round one to the Times in a knockout. Bell wrote, “For the moment, they’re no doubt popping victory champagne corks […]
Critique of Spitzer/biz media relationship lacks examples
Jack Shafer of Slate.com writes that the recent column criticizing the business media for taking Eliot Spitzer’s allegations against Wall Street at face value by The Wall Street Journal‘s Kimberley Strassel was lacking in specific examples. Shafer wrote, “Strassel also finds skullduggery in Spitzer biographer Brooke A. Masters’ comparison of ‘the attorney general to no […]
Missing the credit card story
Dean Starkman of Columbia Journalism Review writes how the traditional business press wrote traditional stories about the credit card industry while more important stories were being uncovered by non-traditional outlets. Starkman wrote, “These non-business-press sources place their credit-card story within a broader context, that of a besieged American middle class caught in an iron vice […]
Mint editor: NYT deputy Sunday biz editor needs to check facts first
Raju Narisetti, the former Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor who now runs the Mint business newspaper in India, reacted angrily to allegations from New York Times deputy Sunday business editor Patricia Kranz that his paper has been reprinting Times’ articles without permission. In a post on the Romenesko site, Narisetti wrote, “I wish The […]
Want to teach business journalism in China?
The International Center for Journalists invites applications for two one-year teaching positions at a global business journalism program at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, beginning Sept. 1, 2008. Taught in English, the program will target 20-25 students each year from China and other countries. The program will train students how to cover the fast-changing world of […]
WSJ partner in India says it has deal to publish NYT stories
Nikhil Pahwa writes on the Content Sutra site that the Hindustan Times’ business newspaper Mint, a Wall Street Journal partner paper in India, has an agreement to publish New York Times stories, contrary to claims from a Times deputy Sunday business editor. Pahwa wrote, “Mint says that WSJ is an exclusive partner, while NYT is […]
Portfolio and writer split
Samantha Conti of Women’s Wear Daily reports Thursday that Conde Nast Portfolio and writer Lauren Goldstein Crowe are going their separate ways later this month. Conti wrote, “Goldstein Crowe, who’s been at the site for a year, said she will leave portfolio.com when her contract expires later this month. She said she decided not to […]
Media coverage of business climate has become increasingly negative
Anna-Louise Jackson, a student at Northwestern University’s Medill School, writes that the media’s coverage of current business conditions has increasingly turned negative, according to research from a local firm. Jackson wrote, “Rich Spitzer, head of Northbrook-based TrendPointers LLC, said negative reporting on the state of the economy has reached an all-time high. “‘The sentiment has dropped off the […]
Financial journalism hits the big screen
Adam Hetrick of Playbill reports Wednesday that an upcoming movie “Confessions of a Shopaholic” will have a lead character employed as a business journalist. Hetrick wrote, “Tony Award winner John Lithgow and Oscar nominees Lynn Redgrave and Kristin Scott Thomas have joined the cast of the upcoming film ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic.’ “Based on Sophie […]
WSJ partner in India lifting content from New York Times
Patricia Kranz, deputy Sunday business editor at the New York Times, has written a memo posted on the Romenesko site in which she claims that a Wall Street Journal partner in India has been running Times’ content on its web site without attribution. Kranz wrote, “Upon further examination, it appears that the site has published […]
