Bloomberg.com launches focus on entpreneurial news
Bloomberg.com is launching a new section on its site for business executives and entrepreneurs, the company announced Wednesday. The section features exclusive insights into how top global entrepreneurs run their companies, in addition to programming from other Bloomberg properties including Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg TV. “Bloomberg is well-positioned and committed to meeting the needs of […]
HP breaks its own news
Taylor Buley of Forbes.com notes that Hewlett-Packard broke the news Tuesday that it was suing its former CEO Mark Hurd by posting a story and the lawsuit on its own site. Buley writes, “Usually this would mark the moment when I urgently ask Forbes researcher Sue Radlauer to help me dig up the legal docs […]
The future of financial journalism
Elliot Turner of Wall St. Cheat Sheet interviewed Justin Fox, the editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, about business journalism and its future. Here is an excerpt: Elliot: As one with a background in both finance and journalism, and someone who has been active in the blogosphere, what do you think about the future […]
Crain's Chicago names new publisher
David Blake is stepping down after 10 years as publisher of Crain’s Chicago Business, which on Tuesday named associate publisher David Snyder his successor, effective Oct. 15, reports Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune. Rosenthal writes, “Under Blake, Crain’s launched its ChicagoBusiness.com as a daily news site, along with ChicagoRealEstateDaily.com, while expanding its event business, […]
Most influential biz journalists in terms of corporate governance
The National Association of Corporate Directors named on Monday its 100 most influential people in terms of issues related to corporate governance and included 11 business journalists on its list. Those listed were: Charles Gasparino of Fox Business Network; Andrew Ross Sorkin, Eric Dash, Gretchen C. Morgenson, Louise Story and Joe Nocera of The New […]
Reuters editor in charge of finance and M&A coverage going to Paris bureau
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Christian Plumb, the editor in New York who oversees finance, investment banking and mergers & acquisitions coverage for Reuters, plans to move to the wire service’s Paris bureau later this year. Plumb has been the editor in charge of finance and M&A for the past four years. In Paris, he will […]
Prairie Biz editor Killion retires
Rick Killion, the editor of Prairie Business magazine, which covers Minnesota and the Dakotas, is retiring from the publication after 10 years. He is being replaced by Alan Van Ormer. Van Ormer writes, “I’m sure it is going to be tough on Rick to let something go that he has prided himself on over the […]
Biz journalism funded by shorting no worse than other types
Felix Salmon of Reuters blogs about the recent American Journalism Review article questioning the ethics of business journalism funded by shortselling. Salmon writes, “The fact is that shorts, much more than longs, have every incentive to be absolutely certain of their thesis before putting on their trade — especially if it’s based on fraud at […]
Former West Virginia biz editor dies
Edward Peeks, the former business editor at the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, died Sunday at the age of 90. A story on the paper’s site states, “Peeks was a reporter and editor for the Gazette from July 1963 to October 1985. When he retired, he was the newspaper’s business/labor editor. “In 1992, Peeks joined […]
Covering the cyber crime beat
David Elbert of the Des Moines Register writes Sunday about Brian Krebs, who appears to be the only business journalist covering cyber crime on a full-time basis. Elbert writes, “‘I’m seeing evidence of six to a dozen new victims a week, and that’s just from one organized crime gang,’ said Brian Krebs, who writes a […]
