WSJ hosting pop-up cafe in London for tech companies
The Wall Street Journal will target the technology sector by hosting a pop-up café in London’s Tech City next month. Jamie Kaffash of Marketing Week writes, “The publication hopes to raise the profile of its technological output and increase engagement between its team and the audience. “Ben Rooney, the journal’s European technology editor, says: ‘Our […]
Toronto paper falsely says biz is closed, and Murphy’s Law
Kathy English, the public editor of the Toronto Star, writes about how the paper erroneously reported that a steak restaurant in the city had closed, and the comedy of errors that then ensued in trying to correct the mistake. English writes, “Sadly, this error is a prime example of the Murphy’s Law of Mistakes. In […]
Inside the new Bloomberg Insider
Erik Maza of Women’s Wear Daily takes a look Tuesday at the new Bloomberg Insider magazine being produced for the political conventions. Maza writes, “It is meant to ‘elevate the visibility of Bloomberg and showcase all the various resources we have,’ said Insider editor Tim Franklin. “Franklin pointed out BGov is relatively new — it […]
Biz journalists who now shoot video
Adrienne LaFrance of the Nieman Journalism Lab writes Monday about The Wall Street Journal‘s new WorldStream, where journalists are shooting video with their phones of events they are covering and downloading them onto the paper’s website. LaFrance writes, “While WorldStream aims to be a way for viewers to get a potpourri of fresh video content, […]
Krim named acting editor of Marketwatch.com
Raju Narisetti, the managing editor of WSJ.com who also was put in charge of Marketwatch.com when its editor David Callaway left for USA Today, sent out the following announcement on Monday afternoon: I am delighted to name Jonathan Krim as acting editor of MarketWatch.com, effective immediately. Jonathan is already intimately familiar with MarketWatch, having consulted with […]
Nine lessons from the Forbes.com remake
Dorian Benkoil of PBS’ MediaShift has nine lessons that have been learned from the overhaul of Forbes.com. Here is one of them: 4. Give contributors ownership. Really Long gone are the days of the traditional editorial flow in which a reporter files copy which is handed off to a series of editors, layout artists and […]
WSJ launches Worldstream
The Wall Street Journal announced Monday the launch of WSJ WorldStream, a global video news gathering and publishing platform for short-form videos shot via smartphone by journalists from across the global Journal and Dow Jones news organization. Launching in conjunction with the start of the Republican National Convention this week in Tampa, Fla., WSJ WorldStream […]
First issue of Bloomberg Insider
Here is the first issue of Bloomberg Insider, which is being published every day during the Republican and Democratic conventions:
The reinvention of Forbes.com
Rachel McAthy of journalism.co.uk writes about how Forbes.com has reinvented itself as a digital platform. McAthy writes, “Since the start of the ‘reinvention’ of Forbes.com two years ago there have been significant changes, not just to the production and presentation of content online, but also in the way its content is being consumed and reached […]
Biz weekly splits ME duties as it explores new products
Talking Biz News reported Saturday that the Boston Business Journal had hired Jon Chesto, the business editor of the Quincy Patriot Ledger, to be its managing editor for print. The internal announcement from executive editor George Donnelly hints at a strategic shift within the newsroom: We’re splitting the managing editor job in two, and I […]
