FT now available on Bloomberg
The Financial Times and Bloomberg announced Monday that FT customers with a corporate license will be able to access Financial Times journalism via the Bloomberg terminal. The service, starting today, will be available to more than 295,000 Bloomberg subscribers. The Financial Times has more than 900 corporate customers who have purchased rights to read FT […]
A wet kiss from the NYT biz section
The NYTpicker site writes Sunday that the profile of General Electric Co. and CEO Jeff Immelt in the Sunday business section of the New York Times is a puff piece. NYTpicker writes, “But this week — to borrow the language of the virtual GE press release it published as a cover story today — it’s […]
Staff changes at Vancouver paper
Gordon Oliver has joined the business reporting staff at The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash., succeeding Libby Tucker, who has been promoted to Web editor. A story on the Columbia’s site states, “Oliver, 58, is a veteran journalist with 30 years of experience, most of that at The Oregonian, where his beats included business, land use, […]
Looking at 2010, and ahead to 2011
David Schlesinger, the editor in chief of Reuters, writes about the news wires’ accomplishments in 2010 and what it plans for 2011. Schlesinger writes, “We have taken a leap into enterprise reporting, examining the issues, themes and undercurrents that are shaping markets, ranging from the potential perils of high-frequency trading to drone warfare. I am […]
Covering the marijuana business beat
Miles Epstein of Commerce magazine interviewed CNBC reporter Trish Regan about her job and what she thinks about the country’s economy. Here is an excerpt: Q. What is your latest project for CNBC? A. In December, my documentary Marijuana USA, looks at the underground business of marijuana — the most profitable drug in the world, […]
From Barron's to Forbes
Eric Savitz, who left Barron’s to cover technology for Forbes as its San Francisco bureau chief, writes about the change. Savitz writes, “For more than four years, I blogged like a wild man, writing the Tech Trader Daily blog for Barron’s. In the process, I posted close to 20,000 times, which is a little ridiculous, […]
Connecticut biz editor leaves for PR
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Jim Zebora, the business editor for the Connecticut Post, Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time and Danbury News-Times in southwest Connecticut, has left his job. Zebora will join New York-based strategic communications firm The Dilenschneider Group as a principal on Monday. “Twenty years as a business editor and I will surely miss it,” […]
First female publisher named at Baltimore biz paper
Suzanne Fischer-Huettner has been named the first female publisher of The Daily Record in Baltimore, a Dolan Co.-owned business and legal paper. Lorraine Mirabella of the Baltimore Sun writes, “Fischer-Huettner, who had been associate publisher and vice president of the daily, replaced Christopher Eddings, publisher since 1997. Eddings was promoted earlier this week to director […]
NYT biz writer headed for Baghdad
Tim Arango, a business reporter at the New York Times, will become the paper’s Baghdad bureau chief next year, reports Hamilton Nolan of Gawker. Nolan writes, “Arango tells us: ‘looks like I’ll be going back as bureau chief some time in the late-feb-early-march timeframe.’ Some believe that reporting from Iraq is even more heroic than […]
Bloomberg Businessweek wins award from Foreign Press Association
Bloomberg Businessweek walked away with the award for best financial/economic reporting at the Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2010. Bloomberg Businessweek journalist James Sterngold’s report ‘Who Cares About Another $200 Million?’ on former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld failing to declare hundreds of millions of dollars worth of compensation to U.S. Congress, appeared in the […]
