The debate, the economy and the business media
John Harwood is chief Washington correspondent of CNBC and a political writer for the New York Times. Harwood was born in Louisville, Ky., and grew up in the Maryland suburbs outside of the nation’s capital. He has been around journalism and politics all his life; his first trip on a presidential campaign press plane came […]
What the income gap really means
I was reading a piece on Bloomberg.com Tuesday about the rising gap between rich (read executives) and lower earnings (read workers.) The numbers are staggering. From Peter Robinson’s story: The 1.2 million households whose incomes put them in the top 1 percent of the U.S. saw their earnings increase 5.5 percent last year, according to estimates released […]
Pearson CEO departure could lead to FT sale
Pearson Chief Executive Marjorie Scardino will step down after 16 years, potentially clearing the way for her successor at the global educational and media group to sell the Financial Times newspaper. Kate Holton of Reuters writes, “Both Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters have been linked with a purchase of the FT Group in the last year […]
Ten Twitter ‘tells’: Like browsing through a journalist’s contacts file
In my (long ago) days as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, I used to keep a monster steel rotary contact file next to my telephone. It was my lifeblood. In it were contained the names and contact information for the vast majority of my sources. Often, on my source cards, I also noted […]
Bloomberg reporter Green wins Welles Prize
Bloomberg News reporter Peter S. Green has won the third annual Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize, given by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The award recognizes Green’s sophisticated and influential coverage of widespread tax avoidance among U.S. corporations amid ambivalent, ineffectual use by the Internal Revenue Service of the whistle blower program that […]
Emmys named for biz/economics content on television
Shows on ABC, CBS and PBS were among the media organizations receiving Emmy Awards for business and economics coverage. The ABC shows “Good Morning America,” “Nightline” and “World News with Diane Sawyer” received an Emmy for outstanding business and economic reporting in a regularly scheduled newscast for “Green Energy: Contracts, Connections and the Collapse of […]
Covering business schools in the multimedia age
Louis Lavelle is an associate editor for Bloomberg Businessweek. Previously, he was BusinessWeek’s management editor. Since taking over as the magazine’s business schools editor in 2005, his team has expanded the franchise to include coverage of Chinese business schools and new rankings of undergraduate business programs, part-time MBA programs, the best employers for new college […]
CEO threatens New Yorker, business journalist
Relativity Media CEO Ryan Kavanaugh has sent a letter to New Yorker asking that an article about his management style be removed from its website and retracted in print. Alex Ben Brock of The Hollywood Reporter writes, “The Hollywood Reporter has obtained a letter from Relativity and Kavanaugh lawyer Carol Genis to New Yorker editor […]
WSJ launches residential real estate section
The Wall Street Journal will debut a new weekly section covering the global luxury real estate market on Friday, Oct. 5. “Mansion” will appear as a stand-alone section in the Journal every Friday in the U.S., with select content appearing each week in the Journal’s Europe and Asia editions. Relevant content will also be presented […]
Dobbs of Fox Business tops Kudlow of CNBC in young viewers
Merrill Knox of TVNewser.com writes that Fox Business Network‘s Lou Dobbs had more younger viewers than the Larry Kudlow show on rival CNBC during the same time slot in the third quarter. Knox writes, “In the third quarter of this year, Dobbs topped Kudlow in the 7pmET time slot among A25-54 viewers, the show’s first […]
