Labor Day coverage through photos
Karen Peterson, the executive editor of the Tacoma News Tribune, writes Sunday about how photojournalist Drew Perine is telling the story of workers for the paper’s Labor Day coverage. Peterson writes, “Here’s what inspired photojournalist Perine to launch his Labor Day series. “‘For years it bothered me that ordinary working people didn’t have an easy […]
CNBC launches new blog covering markets
CNBC.com launched “NetNet” on Friday. It’s a new section of its Web site, run by John Carney, that will cover the markets. Carney is a senior editor at CNBC.com, covering Wall Street, hedge funds, financial regulation and other business news. Prior to joining CNBC.com, Carney was the editor of Clusterstock.com and DealBreaker.com. Other writers for […]
Arndt named ME of Crain's Chicago
Michael Arndt, a former BusinessWeek staffer, has been named the managing editor of Crain’s Chicago Business. He replaces Brandon Copple, who left earlier this summer. Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune writes, “Arndt most recently was Chicago-based editor for innovation and design coverage at Bloomberg Businessweek, a role he assumed with BusinessWeek before that magazine’s […]
Morgenson to receive Bell award
Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor and a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, is the 2010 winner of the New York Financial Writers’ Association’s Elliott V. Bell Award, honoring an individual’s lifetime contributions to the field of financial journalism. Morgenson has covered the world financial markets for The Times since 1998 and […]
Biz news funded by shorting stocks
Cary Spivak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writes in the latest issue of American Journalism Review about the two business news sites — sharesleuth.com and www.ibizreporting.com — where the journalism is funded by shorting the stocks of companies the sites report about. Spivak writes, “Carey, Lobdell and Davis were respected journalists who captured some awards […]
TheStreet.com aims to take business news to a new level
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Editor’s note: This is the fourth interview in a series of discussions with top people in business journalism to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Talking Biz News. Glenn Hall is the editor of TheStreet.com, the financial news site started in November 1996. He oversees oversee news coverage for TheStreet.com’s network of […]
Newsweek's economics editor going to Yahoo Finance
Dan Gross, Newsweek’s economics editor, is leaving the general interest weekly to take a job with Yahoo Finance, reports Joe Pompeo of The Business Insider. Pompeo writes, “Gross, a former New York Times columnist who also writes Slate’s twice-weekly ‘Moneybox’ column, has been with Newsweek since 2007. He is the latest departure in what media […]
The billionaire beat at Forbes
Joe Pompeo of The Business Insider writes Thursday about how Forbes has been hiring bloggers to cover billionaires around the globe. Pompeo writes, “As part of that expansion, Forbes.com has recruited a handful of freelance journalists to blog about the people on its annual World’s Billionaires List, with news, analysis and, of course, inside dirt, […]
Business journalism, circa 1955
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of The Deal, writes Thursday about what it’s like to pick up a copy of Fortune magazine from 1955 and see how business journalism can still be excellent in telling a good story — and still, unfortunately, bury a lead. Kantrow writes, “But nestled among the cheeky clairvoyance is a […]
Explaining changes to the Union-Tribune biz section
Diana McCabe, business editor at the San Diego Union-Tribune, talks on its site about the new business section at the paper.
