Gasparino on the golden erea of the financial media
Fox Business Network‘s Charles Gasparino was interviewed by Benzinga about his love of boxing, his opinions of the financial media and Wall Street. Here is an excerpt: The past couple of years have been a golden era for the financial press. What has it been like being on the frontlines? Charlie Gasparino: I remember when […]
NY Observer reported hired by Bloomberg
Max Abelson, a reporter for the New York Observer, has been hired by Bloomberg News to join the finance team. Abelson currently covers Wall Street for the weekly. He previously covered real estate for the paper, which he joined right out of college after an internship. Abelson writes on his blog: “I’m going to be […]
CNBC's midlife crisis
Scott White of The Huffington Post writes about the changes that have taken place at business news network CNBC. White writes, “Then something happened. I don’t know exactly what caused it. But CNBC changed. For the worse, and hasn’t looked back. Maybe several somethings happened. Not sure. Maybe it was the shattering of investor confidence […]
Ex-Fox Business anchor Glick joins Kauffman Foundation
Alexis Glick, the former Fox Business Network anchor who helped get the business network off the ground before leaving a year ago, has joined the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation as a senior fellow. Glick was vice president of business news and was an anchor of “Money for Breakfast” before abuptly departing Fox Business in December […]
CNBC's Burnett and her bra
Michael Gray of the New York Post writes Sunday about CNBC‘s Erin Burnett‘s segment on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show Thursday morning when she brought out a bra that had been presented to her as a present. Gray writes, “Burnett told Scarborough and Brzezinski that her co-host Mark Haynes had given her a large bra, which […]
Covering the ethics, or lack thereof, in banking
Rick Thames, the editor of the Charlotte Observer, writes Sunday about how the paper’s business news desk has been covering the thorny issue of ethics in the banking industry. Thames writes, “The ethics factor has been on the radar of the Observer’s business news team for quite a while. “‘The various hearings and numerous settlements, […]
Buy lunch with an FT editor
The Financial Times is auctioning off lunches with some of its editors and writers to raise money for charity, and it’s interesting to see the price that some of them are fetching. Lunch with Gillian Tett, the managing editor of the U.S. edition of the business newspaper, has a current bid of $850. However, editor […]
The magazine cover effect
Barry Ritholtz writes about the psychology and market connotations of being a CEO who is named Time magazine’s Man of the Year. Ritholtz writes, “It is somewhat fitting that a decade after Time marked the very top of the internet bubble by putting Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos on the cover as person of the year […]
An assessment of the new Bloomberg Businessweek
Phyllis Fine of MediaPost critiques Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, noting that it is trying to combine lessons from Web publishing with many of the traditional strengths of print mags. Fine writes, “The mag’s art folks have done a good job of vamping up the pages visually, using clever illustrations and a variety of typefaces appealingly. For […]
Biz media's love affair with Dimon
Yvette Kantrow of The Deal writes about the media fawning all over J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. Kantrow writes, “In fact, the very virtues the press constantly praises in Dimon — his cost cutting, his wonkiness, his blunt speech, his faith in the virtue of banking behemoths — we find reprehensible in everyone else, […]
