Freelance business journalists must master business skills
Maya Payne Smart, a Society of American Business Editors and Writers board member and freelance journalist, writes Thursday about what freelance business journalists need to do to improve their income. Smart writes, “Beyond writing, reporting and editing chops, thriving financially outside of a traditional newsroom requires one major skill that most journalists lack: salesmanship. Commerical […]
Turpin, pioneer of real estate reporting, dies at 91
Dick Turpin, one of the pioneers of real estate journalism, died last week at age 91, reports Dick Barnes, the former real estate editor of the Los Angeles Times. Barnes writes, “He was a kind, gentle man, and he had lived a long, full life, a life of service — to his country, to his […]
Bloomberg editorial effort presents conflict-of-interest questions
Jeremy Peters of the New York Times writes Thursday about the new editorial and commentary effort at Bloomberg called Bloomberg View and how it might affect New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. Peters writes, “The effort presents a host of conflict-of-interest questions for the mayor. The new venture provides the mayor with yet another potent communications […]
Forbes to examine how advertising drives Web traffic
Forbes is beginning a new project where it plans to determine how much Web traffic is driven by advertising, writes Matt Kinsman of Folio. Kinsman writes, “The publisher will work with MediaVest and comScore to measure the direct impact of specific ads within Forbes on driving traffic and engagement to the advertiser’s Web sites. “MediaVest […]
Bloomberg Businessweek assessing foreign editions
Bloomberg Businessweek is deciding on the future of the local language publications in its portfolio, which includes editions in Chinese, Indonesian and Thai, after refocusing the main title on global business trends, repots the Asia Media Journal. The Media Journal writes, “Some local relationships that Bloomberg inherited at the time of the acquisition will be […]
Harry the Hawk types in NI ODD
Harry the Hawk, the mascot of the NBA Atlanta Hawks, visited the newsroom of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday, and apparently they had to pry him away from the Bloomberg terminal in the business news department. Photo courtesy of business reporter Rachel Tobin.
Poets & Quants syndicates content to Fortune
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The top story on Fortune magazine’s site Wednesday afternoon is a ranking of the top 25 MBA programs in the country. Only the content isn’t coming from the Fortune staff but from Poets & Quants, a site launched earlier this year by former BusinessWeek executive editor John Byrne, who oversaw that […]
Bloomberg zigs while others zag
Rem Rieder, the editor of American Journalism Review, writes Wednesday about how Bloomberg News has been on a hiring spree when other media have been downsizing. Rieder writes, “In an era of dramatic, not say crushing, retrenchment by so much of the news business, Bloomberg has been mushrooming. It has added so many well-known journalists […]
Press miss foreclosure scandal news
Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review writes that most of the business media, except for Reuters and the Des Moines Register, missed the news that the Iowa attorney general plans to bring criminal charges in the foreclosure scandal. Chittum writes, “This is a story the rest of the press might want to report. The […]
Bloomberg names two new executive editors, will launch editorial page
David Shipley and James P. Rubin will join Bloomberg News as executive editors starting in January, editor in chief Matthew Winkler announced Wednesday. Shipley, deputy editorial page editor and op-ed editor of The New York Times, and Rubin, former U.S. Department of State assistant secretary, will lead a new editorial page called the Bloomberg View […]
