Cincinnati Enquirer biz columnist leaves paper
Laura Baverman, a business columnist and reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, has left the paper to move to North Carolina. She covered commercial development, retail, the grocery industry, start-ups and whatever else came her way. Her weekly column called Innovations appeared on Fridays. She also co-authored Developing Now, a local blog with real estate and […]
The most common error in business journalism
I read a lot of business journalism every day. It’s my job, and I love my job. So I can say with some degree of expertise that the error in the headline on Jack Shafer‘s column about the brouhaha over the Bureau of Labor Statistics is one that I see a LOT. Maybe not every […]
Economics reporters downplay criticism of BLS
Joe Strupp of Media Matters for America writes Friday that the nation’s top economics reporters don’t believe that the Bureau of Labor Statistics manipulated unemployment numbers to help President Obama’s re-election. Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch made such an assertion Friday on his Twitter account. Strupp writes, “Kevin Hall, McClatchy’s national economic correspondent and […]
Reuters’ Boston bureau chief headed to DC
Reuters Washington bureau chief Marilyn Thompson sent out the following staff announcement on Friday: We are pleased to announce that Ros Krasny, currently Boston bureau chief, will join us in Washington to fill the big EIC shoes recently vacated by Russ Blinch. These shoes will be bigger still because in addition to the Energy and […]
Can’t get a small business loan – try Amazon
Watch out bankers, the retailer that sells it all is moving into the loan business. And it’s possible they have more information on credit quality, inventories and sales than you do. The story from the Wall Street Journal’s Sarah E. Needleman and Greg Bensinger talked about the online retailer’s move into commercial lending, especially to […]
Leveraging social media as a business journalist
The public nature of Twitter lends to a two-way conversation that allows reporters to source stories and connect with their audience, said Forbes Media LLC science and medicine reporter Mathew Herper in a conference call for contributing blog writers Thursday. “It’s like a cocktail party in a bar where everyone is shouting,” Herper said in the […]
Bloomberg reporter wins best new journalist award
Esme Deprez of Bloomberg News has been named the best new journalist by the Newswomen’s Club of New York. The award is named for Martha Coman, one of the first female reporters for the New York Herald and a founding member and first president of The Newspaper Women’s Club, which became the Newswomen’s Club of […]
Biz news site Minyanville founder discusses its strategy
Todd Harrison, founder and CEO of Minyanville Media Inc., the business and financial news company that celebrated its 10th anniversary earlier this week. In addition to his presence in the media realm, Harrison has spent 22 years on Wall Street. He worked seven years on the worldwide equity derivative desk at Morgan Stanley as vice […]
WSJ reporter joins Quartz
Matt Phillips, a Wall Street Journal reporter on the Money & Investing team, has joined Quartz to cover similar finance, markets and economics. Phillips joined The Atlantic’s new business news site shortly before its launch on Sept. 24, a spokeswoman told Talking Biz News. Phillips had been with the Journal since December 2005. Before that, […]
Who could be bidding for the FT?
Amy Chozick of The New York Times talks with deputy business editor David Gillen about what might happen to The Financial Times now that the CEO of Pearson, its parent, is stepping down.
