A Christmas present for business journalists: SEC doc iPad app
Dave Friedman, editor in chief of Wall St. Watchdog, reviews the new iPad application that allows people to read SEC filings and make notes of important disclosures, a great gift for any hardcore business journalist. Friedman writes, “This app claims to have two purposes: (1) act as a central repository for all SEC filings in […]
Barron's launches iPad app
Barron’s now has an iPad application that is free to download and costs $2.99 a week for the latest issue. Current print subscribers receive it for free. Tiernan Ray of Barron’s writes, “Like its Wall Street Journal sibling, the Barron’s iPad edition is a convincing digital simulacrum of the print version, and contains a splash/home […]
Computers that trade on business news
Graham Bowley of The New York Times writes Wednesday about how Wall Street is now using computers to automatically trade on news affecting stocks. Bowley writes, “The development goes far beyond standard digital fare like most-read and e-mailed lists. In some cases, the computers are actually parsing writers’ words, sentence structure, even the odd emoticon. […]
Bloomberg files lawsuit against European Central Bank
Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News, filed a lawsuit Wednesday that asks the European Union’s General Court in Luxembourg to overturn a decision by the European Central Bank not to disclose documents that show how Greece used derivatives to hide its fiscal deficit. Bloomberg editor in chief Matthew Winkler appeared on Bloomberg Television on […]
CNBC to begin airing "60 Minutes"
Business news network CNBC announced Wednesday that it will begin airing business-related episodes of “60 Minutes” starting in January. The first episode will air on Wednesday, Jan. 5 at 10 p.m., and will repeat that evening at 1 a.m. The remaining episodes — 20 in total — will air on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. and […]
ME of Dow Jones Investment Banker leaving
Rick Stine, senior editor of Dow Jones Newswires, sent out the following announcement to the staff on Wednesday: I wanted to let you know that Adam Smallman’s last day at Dow Jones will be this Friday, December 24. Adam will become the top editor at Lloyd’s Register in London where he will oversee publication of […]
Business stories among duPont award winners
Business-related stories are among the winners of the 2011 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award Winners. “60 Minutes” won for a story about the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The judges stated, “In the middle of a breaking story, Scott Pelley and his team produced a model of investigative reporting uncovering new information from […]
Insurance PR spin and its effects
Gary Weiss of Portfolio.com writes about former CIGNA PR exec Wendell Potter’s book “Deadly Spin,” which details how the insurance industry used public relations to get what it wanted. Weiss writes, “But who is to blame for that? At bottom, it’s my colleagues in the media. It’s our job to distinguish between front groups and […]
SABEW Best in Business contest will have new categories
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ Best in Business contest will open Jan. 4 with several new divisions and a new emphasis on non-traditional business news media. The 16th annual competition has been redesigned to recognize recent developments in the coverage of business news while retaining the core elements of the largest creative […]
Tyrangiel talks Businessweek on Rose
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel was on the Charlie Rose show on Monday night talking about the magazine. Here is an excerpt: “So a lot of what happened when I got job at Bloomberg Businessweek, I just emphasized we’ve got to fight for our space every day. Every day you have to convince people why […]
