Bloomberg launching newsletters that will cost $2,000/year
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson of the Financial Times writes in Monday’s paper about Bloomberg L.P. launching a series of newsletters that will cost subscribers $2,000 per year. Edgecliffe-Johnson writes, “A daily economics newsletter and three weekly titles covering hedge funds, mergers and structured notes have been available for free to customers of the Bloomberg Professional terminal service […]
SABEW expands into Canada
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is adding international members to its membership, adding 85 members from Canada in recent months. The biggest group of new business journalists to the organization have come from the Toronto Globe and Mail, which signed up 45 reporters and editors. Another 28 joined from Rogers Media, which […]
Laid off biz reporter finds job with Dow Jones
Deborah Gage, a business journalist who lost her job with the San Francisco Chronicle in 2009 due to layoffs, has been hired by Dow Jones. Gage will be covering venture capital, startups and tech for VentureWire and developing stories for the Wall Street Journal. She had been freelancing for the past 16 months and has […]
Biz news site goes dark amid issues
James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times reports Saturday that the iBusinessReporting.com site founded by former Times business reporter Bill Lobdell and fraud investigator Barry Minkow has closed down. Lobdell writes, “We live in a time of experimentation and reinvention in journalism, and there’s reason to admire anyone looking for new ways to pay for […]
NYT hires two reporters for biz news desk
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia and Dealbook blog editor Andrew Ross Sorkin sent out the following announcement to the staff on Friday afternoon: We are please to announce that two more reporters – Azam Ahmed from the Chicago Tribune and Ben Protess from the Huffington Post Investigative Fund – […]
Forbes to crowd source part of its January issue
Joe Pompeo of The Business Insider reports Friday that Forbes magazine is looking to its readers to shape some of the content for its January issue. Pompeo writes, “The latest of these just got underway: In a move that opinions editor Michael Noer describes as ‘the first ever attempt of its kind,’ Forbes is crowd-sourcing […]
CNBC's Kate Kelly performs basic journalism and pisses off investors
CNBC reporter Kate Kelly is a former Wall Street Journal reporter, so we can assume she knows how to report a story. Earlier this week, she did just that, reporting the names of investors who met secretly in Manhattan to plan their strategy to sell their bad mortgages back to the banks. How she got […]
WSJ/Dow Jones name Canada bureau chief
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson sent out the following announcement on Friday morning: I am pleased to announce that Chip Cummins will become Bureau Chief for Canada, overseeing Dow Jones Newswires and Wall Street Journal reporters based in Toronto, Ottawa and Calgary. Chip takes on this important leadership role as Canada, including Saskatchewan, […]
Houston Biz Journal names new editor
B. Candace Beeke has been named the new editor of the Houston Business Journal, replacing longtime editor Bill Schadewald, who is retiring after 37 years at the paper. A story on the newspaper’s site states, “John Beddow, HBJ publisher, said that Schadewald had built up a strong franchise and leaves a legacy of high-quality business […]
Microsoft's change, and what it means to business journalists
Erik Sherman of BNet.com writes Thursday about Microsoft’s decision to no longer issue earnings releases through newswires, and what that might mean to business reporters covering the company. Sherman writes, “One of the methods that has been common is to file press releases on newswires so that the press and interested individuals could in theory […]
