A new vision for Nightly Business Report
Bridget Carey of the Miami Herald writes Sunday about “Nightly Business Report,” the business news show on PBS stations, and the changes being made by new owner Mykalai Kontilai. Carey writes, “Among the plans: a ‘major social networking initiative’ designed to draw a younger audience, and a Spanish-language version, currently being discussed with a what […]
NYT tech columnist Pogue arrested after domestic altercation
New York Times technology columnist David Pogue and his wife were charged with disorderly conduct earlier this week following a domestic argument, part of which she recorded on her iPhone, police said. Hillary Federico of the Hartford Courant writes, “David Pogue, 48, told officers that it was his night to be with the children and […]
Rapping Gap coverage on the knuckles
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs thinks that some business media were too soft in their coverage of retailer Gap cutting its earnings projections.
Biz reporters change beats at Atlanta daily
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Chris Quinn, who has been covering the state Senate, Cherokee County and other news at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, will be starting as its residential real estate reporter, according to business editor Matt Kempner. He replaces Michelle Shaw, who had earlier shifted from the residential real estate beat to cover the suburbs […]
Cummings to join Bloomberg News
Jeanne Cummings, assistant managing editor at Politico and former White House correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, will be joining the government team at Bloomberg News, where she will help direct the largest team in the Washington Bureau as deputy team leader. She will focus on enterprise reporting, coverage of the 2012 campaign and money […]
TechCrunch TV taps into the power of videoblogging
Andy Plesser of Beet.tv interviews Erick Schonfeld, co-editor of the tech news site TechCrunch about its video operations. About ten percent of consumption of TechCrunch videos are on mobile, about 5.4 percent on tablets and 4.7 percent on mobile devices.
LinkedIn IPO coverage falls short
Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review has a good analysis of where the business media fell down when writing about the initial public offering of social media company LinkedIn. Chittum writes, “Unfortunately, the WSJ short-arms this story. It doesn’t give us key data that it should have to fully tell the LinkedIn valuation story. […]
Computer virus affecting Dow Jones
Lucia Moses of Adweek writes about how a computer virus has hit the employees at Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal. Moses writes, “The timing of the infection, which hit May 12, was ominous, as 34 employees represented by the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, most of them techs, got […]
You're going to get into business journalism
New York Times business journalist Diana Henriques, who recently published a book about convicted investor Bernie Madoff, spoke to a group of journalism students at the University of South Carolina about her work. Roddie Burris of The State in Columbia, S.C., writes, “She recommended three things journalists need to do to better uncover the scoundrels […]
You’re going to get into business journalism
New York Times business journalist Diana Henriques, who recently published a book about convicted investor Bernie Madoff, spoke to a group of journalism students at the University of South Carolina about her work. Roddie Burris of The State in Columbia, S.C., writes, “She recommended three things journalists need to do to better uncover the scoundrels […]
