SABEW to hold training call on health care
The Supreme Court has ruled on the Affordable Health Care Act. What’s next? What are the implications for taxes, for Medicaid, for the exchanges? Here’s your chance to get tips and ask questions of noted health care journalists in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers’s next hour-long teletraining call, “Health Care Coverage in […]
Translating earnings into easy-to-understand articles
Arthur Brisbane, the public editor of the New York Times, writes Sunday about how business journalists decipher earnings releases into stories. Brisbane writes, “If you are a reader of these stories, you can be forgiven for not knowing what to think. The problem is not new, but it is changing. Veteran business journalists trace some […]
Time for Cramer to retire from CNBC?
Steve Kanaval writes on Expedated.com that Jim Cramer needs to retire from his CNBC work. Kanaval writes, “CNBC used to mean Consumer News and Business Channel now it means Cramer all the Time – and Not all this BooYaa Coverage of things Jim thinks are important, the show has more depth than they show, and […]
WSJ folds radio ops into newsroom
Alan Murray, the deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and executive editor of its online operations, sent out the following announcement on Friday: Today we are taking the next step in strengthening our longstanding and successful efforts in radio – a business we have been in since 1982 and that currently reaches more […]
Labor Department releases data early
The Department of Labor on Thursday released its closely watched weekly jobless report at least five minutes early on its website, ahead of its embargo release time for business reportrs, reports Geoffrey Rogow and Stephen L. Bernard of Dow Jones Newswires. Rogow and Bernard writes, “Each week, the Labor Department releases its weekly jobless report […]
Does CNBC’s ratings indicate market movement?
Schaeffer’s Investment Research senior technical analyst Ryan Detrick writes about whether CNBC‘s poor ratings indicate higher stock prices. Detrick writes, “Besides the fact that everyone hates you if you are bullish in this environment, the recent CNBC ratings are out, and they are eye-opening. In a nut shell, people simply aren’t interested in a strong […]
Fast Company co-founder discusses its start and objectives
Bill Taylor, one of the cofounders of the business magazine Fast Company, talks with Channelline CEO Robert Cohen about his objectives in creating the magazine.
Business book of the year finalists named
The 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award includes an array of titles charting the strengths and weaknesses of the American corporate, economic and financial system. William Silber’s forthcoming biography of former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker sits alongside Walter Isaacson’s life of the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. The stories […]
Bloomberg pays fine to Economist
Bloomberg has paid the Economist Group an unspecified amount to compensate the latter for unauthorized access by former CQ Roll Call employees now working at Bloomberg. Lucia Moses of Adweek writes, “The rival publishing and information companies say that former employees of the Economist Group’s CQ Roll Call group now working for Bloomberg continued to use […]
The financial media’s issue: Making everything a problem for the little guy
Felix Salmon of Reuters writes that a big problem for the financial media is that it tries to turn every story into a problem for the average person. Salmon writes, “One of the problems with financial journalism is its rather kludgy attempts to appeal to a general audience. If something bad happens, for instance, it […]
