Bloomberg Television hires Dubai reporter
Bloomberg Television announced Friday that Lara Setrakian has joined the channel as a reporter based in Dubai. Setrakian, who joins Bloomberg from ABC News in Dubai, has expertise covering the Gulf. Most recently, she reported on the unrest in the Middle East from Saudi Arabia and Cairo’s Tahrir Square. While at ABC, Setrakian covered the […]
Sarasota reporter wins National Journalism Award for biz reporting
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The Sarasota Herald-Tribune received the William Brewster Styles Award for business and economics reporting, which comes with $10,000, on Friday from the Scripps Howard Foundation. It’s the second consecutive year that the Florida paper has won the award. In 2010, it received the award for a series on real estate flipping. […]
Bloomberg News top winner in SABEW's Best in Business
Bloomberg News, with 20 winning entries, garnered the top awards in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ Best in Business Awards, released Friday morning. GlobalPost was second with 10 awards; The New York Times was third with eight winners. Overall, there were 168 winners across 65 categories, from among 904 entries received. Here […]
Bloomberg News top winner in SABEW’s Best in Business
Bloomberg News, with 20 winning entries, garnered the top awards in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ Best in Business Awards, released Friday morning. GlobalPost was second with 10 awards; The New York Times was third with eight winners. Overall, there were 168 winners across 65 categories, from among 904 entries received. Here […]
Wichita biz paper celebrates 25 years
Bill Roy, the editor of the Wichita Business Journal, writes Thursday about the paper’s 25th anniversary. Roy writes, “On this day in 1986 the WBJ published its first paper. It broke the story of the name change from Fourth National Bank to Bank IV. “When the WBJ began operations in 1986, it was a weekly […]
NYT's Dealbook content to remain free — for now
Andrew Ross Sorkin, the New York Times business journalist who oversees its Dealbook site, writes that its content won’t be placed behind the newspapers paywall. Sorkin writes, “Many of you have been with us since we started as an e-mail service in 2001. Many more new readers have joined us along the way — especially […]
NYT’s Dealbook content to remain free — for now
Andrew Ross Sorkin, the New York Times business journalist who oversees its Dealbook site, writes that its content won’t be placed behind the newspapers paywall. Sorkin writes, “Many of you have been with us since we started as an e-mail service in 2001. Many more new readers have joined us along the way — especially […]
FT exec backs NYT's online pay model
The New York Times unveiled Thursday its plans to begin charging readers to access some of its content online, following models that have been successfully used by business newspapers The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times. Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com, has executed the FT’s strategy to successfully charge for its online content, […]
FT exec backs NYT’s online pay model
The New York Times unveiled Thursday its plans to begin charging readers to access some of its content online, following models that have been successfully used by business newspapers The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times. Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com, has executed the FT’s strategy to successfully charge for its online content, […]
Reuters hedge fund reporter leaving for WSJ
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Emily Chasan, the senior hedge fund correspondent for Reuters in New York, has resigned from the wire service to accept a job at The Wall Street Journal, three sources at Reuters confirmed to Talking Biz News. Chasan will be a senior editor at CFO Journal, The Journal’s forthcoming site for corporate […]
