Dow Jones going solar at NJ location
Dow Jones & Co. CEO Les Hinton sent out the following announcement to the staffs of The Wall Street Journal, Marketwatch.com, Dow Jones Newswires and Barron’s on Monday: “Dow Jones is about to make a major investment in solar energy. This exciting project will make our South Brunswick campus the largest solar power installation at […]
Deadline Club finalists announced
The Deadline Club Awards honor the best in New York area journalism – printed, broadcast or otherwise distributed in 2009. Winners will be honored at the Annual Awards Dinner on Monday, June 7. Here are the finalists in the business journalism categories: Business Feature Mark Bowden, Vanity Fair, “The Inheritance” Jeff Chu, Fast Company, “The […]
Ferreting out the worst companies
Corporate Responsibility Magazine plans to publish a list of the worst corporations in terms of transparency in its April-May issue, writes Stephanie Clifford of the New York Times. Clifford writes, “‘The notion of transparency as the first, best, primary value allows other players, players with a variety of values — be they journalistic, NGOs, competitors, […]
Lessons in retail reporting
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs talks about mistakes in business reporting about Best Buy and Bed Beth & Beyond.
More on the NYT Twitter on Toyota
Cleveland Plain Dealer ombudsman Ted Diadiun has perspective Sunday about New York Times business reporter Hiroko Tabuchi, who posted Tweets about Toyota before and during the company’s news conference she covered. Diadiun writes, “So when Tabuchi unburdened herself about Toyota, she wasn’t just griping to sympathetic colleagues about her problems. She was telling her nearly […]
The danger of always being accessible
New York Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt writes for Sunday’s paper about what social network and the paper’s videocast of its editor’s meetings means to its perception and uses the example of a business reporter posting Tweets about her frustration at a Toyota Motors press conference as an example. Hoyt writes, “Hiroko Tabuchi, who said she […]
The lack of wisdom in financial journalism
Max Zeledon, a former research analyst at International Data Group in San Francisco who runs a digital consulting firm, writes about financial journalism in the wake of running across “Mad Money” and Jim Cramer on CNBC last night. Zeledon writes, “Maybe I’m being unfair to him because he is an entertainer after all, but his […]
The funniest business journalist
Business journalism doesn’t often lend itself to humor. But Fox Business Network correspondent Rich Edson is apparently one funny guy. At the National Press Club on Thursday night, journalists from a variety of media organizations performed comedy for charity. And Edson came away tied for first place with Jamie McIntyre of Military.com based on the […]
Biz magazine performance better, but still down in first quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Business magazines continued to see their advertising revenue and pages decline in the first three months of the year, but at a slower pace than in 2009, according to an analysis of Publishers Information Bureau data by Talking Biz News. The sector also performed better than the overall magazine industry The […]
CNBC, not Fox Business, will appear in "Wall Street 2"
Courtney Comstock of The Business Insider points out that it’s CNBC, not Fox Business Network, that’s appearing in the upcoming movie “Wall Street 2” despite it being released by a News Corp. subsidiary. News Corp. also owns Fox Business. Comstock writes, “We’ve read the script and that’s true – screenwriter Allan Loeb uses Fox News […]
