The problem with Reuters coverage of Google's earnings release
Investor relations consultant Dominic Jones notes that Reuters story last week about Google referring investors and others to its Web site to obtain its latest earnings release failed to disclose that its parent company, ThomsonReuters, owns a a PR wire service and stands to lose business if other companies follow Google’s lead. Jones writes, “The […]
Capital Business launches amid car wreck
Dan Beyers, the editor of Capital Business, the new weekly business newspaper being launched by the Washington Post, writes Monday about how the distraction of starting the publication caused him to wreck his car. Beyers writes, “Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association in Arlington, remembers a time back in the […]
Covering business in Haiti after the earthquake
National Public Radio business reporter Adam Davidson went to Haiti recently to report, and he talked about his experience with Andrea Pitzer of the Neiman Storyboard. Here is an excerpt: You ended up doing a piece on the tap-tap buses and small businesses in a tent city. How did you find those stories? I had […]
Business journal returns as Web only publication
The Pocono Business Journal, which folded its print edition two months, has returned under new owners and as a Website-only publication. Wayne Witkowski of the Pocono Record writes, “Trump Media Inc., owned by Jason Trump of East Stroudsburg, purchased the branding and assets from former publisher and owner Marynell Strunk, who launched the publication five […]
PR and business journalists
Norm Bell, the editor of the Hartford Business Journal, writes about the communications relationship between public relations professionals and business journalists. Bell writes, “We find interesting ways to make errors. And we don’t need help. “We’ve been wrestling with some problems associated with sloppy public relations work. When we wrote a web item for HBJ […]
Pacific Business News names new editor
Kevin Bumgarner, the former editor of the Dallas Business Journal, has been named the editor of the Pacific Business News in Honolulu. Both are American City Business Journals papers. A story on the Pacific Business News site states, “Bumgarner succeeds Jim Kelly, who left the company. “Bumgarner has spent two decades with American City Business […]
The WSJ, the NYT and the Goldman story
Jeff Bercovici of DailyFinance.com wonders whether The Wall Street Journal got scooped Friday by the New York Times on the SEC filing charges against Goldman Sachs because of the changes that Rupert Murdoch has made since acquiring the business newspaper. Bercovici writes, “Journal insiders are divided over whether and to what extent the paper’s new […]
Guest slams Cramer about Goldman
Steve Krakauer of Mediaite notes Friday that a guest on CNBC criticized “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer. Krakauer writes, “Today during Jim Cramer’s segment on CNBC’s Street Signs with Erin Burnett, guest Sylvain Raynes from R&R Consulting went after Cramer – and Cramer fired back. “After Cramer seemed to defend Goldman Sachs, or at least […]
Goldman Sachs sued by the Feds, or Tila Tequila's business tips?
When the news broke Friday morning that the Securities and Exchange Commission was filing charges against Goldman Sachs, most business news media scurried to cover the story. Not Fox Business Network, however. It stayed with an interview with reality star Tila Tequila, who was talking about turning her life into a business, reports Gillian Reagan […]
Day in the life of Petallides of Fox Business
The NewsonWomen.com site interviewed Fox Business Network anchor Nicole Petallides about her job and her career. Here is an excerpt: What skills do you use most often in your job? Geeez huge question, what don’t I use? For content I scour all the morning newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, business and news Web […]
