The slow, steady growth of Fox Business
Sarah Barry James of SNL Financial in Charlottesville, Va., looks at Fox Business Network and its growth in a story where its subsidiary SNL Kagan projects the network will have $169.4 million in operating revenue in 2012 and be in more than 72 million homes. James writes, “‘The thing that strikes me about CNBC is […]
Bloomberg hires new media reporter
Edmund Lee, a reporter for Advertising Age, has been hired by Bloomberg News. Lee posted on Twitter that he will be covering companies such as News Corp., Time Warner and Viacom. He’s been covering media for Ad Age. Lee, who graduated from New York University in 1994, has been with Ad Age for the past […]
NYT magazine hires away editor from Bloomberg Businessweek
Jon Kelly, an editor at Bloomberg Businessweek for the past 16 months, has been hired by the New York Times magazine. Zeke Turner of Women’s Wear Daily writes, “Kelly, 29, will run the front of the Sunday Magazine and Greg Veis will become politics editor. Kelly, with assistance from Veis, will be tasked with reworking […]
Judge rules for Bloomberg in bias case
A federal judge has dismissed claims that Bloomberg LP engaged in a pattern of discrimination against pregnant women who took maternity leaves. David Chen of the New York Times writes, “Judge Loretta A. Preska of United States District Court in Manhattan ruled Wednesday that the plaintiffs had failed to present sufficient evidence that discrimination was […]
Business news in the Internet age
Nikki Usher, a George Washington University journalism professor, recently defended her PhD dissertation, which examined how business news is created in the Internet age, at the University of Southern California. For her dissertation, she spent some time with the staff of the New York Times business section to see what they do each day. Here […]
Time Warner pulls Fox Business commercial critical of CNBC
Richard Huff of the New York Daily News reports that a Fox Business Network commercial critical of rival CNBC was pulled from the air by Time Warner Cable, where the Fox network had purchased time. Huff writes, “The ‘gone fishin” spots were placed locally to run in the national network, a common practice for advertisers […]
Biz media talk out of both sides of mouth with Lowe’s, Home Depot
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs takes on the business journalists who used lower earnings from hardware store chain Lowe’s as evidence of a slowing economy, but then found other reasons as to why rival Home Depot beat expectations.
Biz journalists make $56,000 a year, according to study
U.S. business journalists reported a median salary of $56,220 for 2010-11, according to research for the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism released Tuesday. Linda Austin of the Reynolds Center writes, “Those figures come from phone surveys of 773 randomly selected business journalists, about 60 percent of whom were interviewed in 2010, with […]
Fox Business commercial takes shot at CNBC
A new Fox Business Network commercial notes that rival CNBC wasn’t live during the Standard & Poor’s credit rating downgrade of the U.S. government earlier this month.
Charlotte biz columnist leaving for university job
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Charlotte Observer business editor John Arwood and managing editor Cheryl Carpenter sent out the following announcement on Friday afternoon: We’re sorry to announce that Ron Stodghill is leaving the Observer to become the director of an Applied Research Center at Johnson C. Smith University, focusing on small business and workforce development. […]
