Bloomberg launching Capital Intelligence this spring
Bloomberg Government, the new service from Bloomberg covering the intersection between business and politics, will bolster its coverage of Capitol Hill this spring with the introduction of Capitol Intelligence, a feature that will deliver news and insights about what’s happening in Congress. Capitol Intelligence will be part of BGOV.com. Katherine Rizzo, who directed Congressional Quarterly’s […]
Business journalists on Time magazine's top 140 Twitter feeds
Time magazine has released its 140 top Twitter feeds, and four business journalists are on the list. CNNMoney stock columnist Paul LaMonica is one of them. Stephen Gandel writes, “He tweets 20 times a day or more, offering quick, worthy analysis on the market and the stocks that are rising or dropping the most. Just […]
Business journalists on Time magazine’s top 140 Twitter feeds
Time magazine has released its 140 top Twitter feeds, and four business journalists are on the list. CNNMoney stock columnist Paul LaMonica is one of them. Stephen Gandel writes, “He tweets 20 times a day or more, offering quick, worthy analysis on the market and the stocks that are rising or dropping the most. Just […]
Charlotte business editor heads to New York Times to be finance editor
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Charlotte Observer managing editor Cheryl Carpenter sent out the following announcement to the staff on Monday: It’s with both pride and sorrow that I tell you that Patrick Scott has accepted an editing position with the New York Times. He will join the Business Day section of the Times as finance […]
AP launches global economic tracker
The Associated Press announced Monday that it has launched the AP Global Economy Tracker, the new analytical tool that’s a quarterly analysis of world economic and financial trends that draws on data from 22 countries that account for more than 80 percent of global economic output. AP economics writer Paul Wiseman is the lead business […]
The most influential business news organizations
Reuters ranks No. 3, The Wall Street Journal No. 4 and Bloomberg News No. 5 in a ranking of news organizations who have had their reporting cited the most in Google News and Google Blog searches in the past month, according to data compiled by New York Times blogger and statistics-dicer extraordinaire Nate Silver. Jeff […]
Sarasota paper wins National Headliner Award for top biz story
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s series on the problems with Florida’s property and casualty insurance industry received the top award in the business news coverage category of the National Headliner Awards announced Monday. The series, “Florida’s Insurance Nightmare,” was written by Paige St. John. It received the Scripps Howard Foundation award for top business coverage earlier this […]
VentureBeat names managing editor
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Marie Baca has been promoted to managing editor of VentureBeat, a Bay area news site that covers tech news. Baca is currently the lead writer for GreenBeat. Previously, she covered natural gas drilling at ProPublica and Bay Area news at the Wall Street Journal. She began my journalism career at Dow […]
TheStreet.com and Journal Register Co. strike content sharing agreement
Financial news site TheStreet.com and media company Journal Register Co. have entered into an agreement where the two will share content. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. TheStreet.com will provide national business, financial markets and personal finance content to the Journal Register’s newspapers and websites, while the Journal Register’s media properties will provide local […]
SABEW offering paid trips to pension workshop
Journalists are invited to learn how to cover the nationally contentious issue of public pensions at an all-expenses-paid, three-day seminar conducted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in June through a $40,000 grant provided by the McCormick Foundation. Applications are being received now for up to 20 fellowships that will include airfare, hotel accommodations, […]
