Explaining government to the business world
James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times writes Saturday about Bloomberg Government, the website service launched at the beginning of the year by Bloomberg News to cover the intersection between business and government. Rainey writes, “Workers for the website include not just veteran reporters but academics and policy analysts. The BGov team intends to be […]
Dow Jones hires ABS reporter from Reuters
Mark Stein, assistant managing editor at Dow Jones Newswires, made the following announcement to the staff on Friday afternoon: I am pleased to announce that Albert H. Yoon will be joining Dow Jones Newswires in New York City as a reporter covering asset-backed securities, mortgages and the housing market. Al has an extensive background covering […]
Bloomberg threatens FCC complaint about Comcast
Bloomberg said Friday it plans to file a complaint at the FCC asking it to enforce the “news neighborhooding” condition in the Comcast/NBCU order, which it alleges Comcast is ignoring, reports John Eggerton of Broadcasting & Cable. Eggerton writes, “Comcast says Bloomberg has misinterpreted the condition. Comcast reads the condition as preventing it from repositioning […]
Honoring Mark Haines with ties
CNBC anchor Mark Haines, who unexpectedly died earlier this week, always wore an American flag tie on Fridays. To honor him, here is what the other male anchors wore today:
Bloomberg View has a weak start
Jack Shafer of Slate is not impressed with Bloomberg View, the opinion operation launched this week by Bloomberg News. Shafer writes, “The columnists’ extreme reasonableness and to a lesser degree the low temper of the first four editorials tell you everything you need to know about why there is no Bipartisan Party or why nobody […]
Tech journalists head for the doors
Ben Popper of BetaBeat writes about how some top tech journalists have left their jobs recently, just as the IPO market for tech companies has heated up. Popper writes, “In the last two months Venture Beat’s Jacob Brody split for Mesa to run bunsiness development, CNET’s Caroline McCarthy took a gig with Google‘s Trends and […]
Sandberg leaving WSJ to become Bloomberg.com editor
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Jared Sandberg, banking and wealth editor for The Wall Street Journal, has resigned for a position at Bloomberg News, according to multiple sources. He will become editor of Bloomberg.com and report to Josh Tyrangiel, editorial director of Bloomberg Digital and editor of Bloomberg Businessweek. Sandberg once wrote the Journal’s Cubicle Culture column, which […]
“Nightly Business Report” now available on satellite radio
“Nightly Business Report,” which airs five days a week on PBS television stations, will be available on satellite radio beginning next week, reports Glenn Garvin of The Miami Herald. Garvin writes, “The simulcast will air weeknights at 7 p.m. on Sirius XM’s public-radio channel (XM 121 and Sirius 205) with a repeat at 10 p.m. […]
AOL Daily Finance names new editorial team
AOL Daily Finance, which was taken over by the editorial management of The Huffington Post earlier this year, named a new staff to be managed by Huffington Post executive business edior Peter Goodman. “I’m excited to announce that AOL Daily Finance has built a dynamic and savvy editorial team that will bring wisdom and passion […]
Don’t forget about rate requests
Hal Morris, writing on his GrumpyEditor.com blog, reminds business journalists to regularly check rate filing requests from utilities at state public service commissions. Morris writes, “In covering utilities and their constant parade of rate increase proposals before state public utility commissions, business writers should do a bit of fact checking, even if it means looking […]
