Twitter earnings disappoint
Twitter’s stock fell today after the company reported disappointing earnings and investors grew more concerned about its ability to grow. Yoree Koh had this story for the Wall Street Journal: Wall Street is coming to grips with the possibility that Twitter may remain a niche service, rather than become the next Facebook. Twitter Inc.’s stock hit a new […]
Bartiromo ringing a new bell on Sunday
Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News interviews Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo about her new Sunday show on Fox News called “Sunday Morning Futures.” Here is an excerpt: MCN: It’s good to work on Sundays? MB: I love it. I mean the show, I love. It’s hard working six days, I guess. But I just […]
New Mexico biz editor leaves paper
Business editor Brook Stockberger, who has been with the Las Cruces Sun-News for more than 17 years, has left the newspaper for a position at another newspaper. A story on the Sun-News website states, “Stockberger came to the Sun-News in October 1996 as a sports reporter and was named sports editor in December 2000. In […]
California business paper is 128 years old
While most weekly business newspapers track their origin to the 1980s, the Fresno Business Journal was honored Tuesday by the Fresno County Board of Supervisors for being more than a century old. A story on its website states, “The Business Journal traces its roots back to 1886, less than six months after the incorporation of […]
Fortune hires eight for soon-to-be-relaunched website
Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer sent out the following staff hire announcement on Tuesday: The Fortune.com staff is growing bigger! We are pleased to announce a number of important new editorial hires — writers and editors in London, San Francisco, and New York. We are getting closer to being fully staffed for our upcoming launch of the […]
Talking Biz News Today — April 29, 2014
Some of Tuesday’s top business stories: The NY Times Bank of America’s bad accounting, by Floyd Norris In victory for Obama, court backs rules for coal pollution, by Coral Davenport The Wall Street Journal Target names new chief info officer following data breach, by Lauren Pollock Reuters EBay’s results top Wall Street targets but outlook […]
Keller, fired at Bloomberg Businessweek, lands at PolicyMic
Jared Keller, the social media editor fired at Bloomberg Businessweek, has been hired as director of programming at PolicyMic, a news and aggregation startup geared toward millenials, writes Dylan Byers of Politico. Byers writes, “‘As the homepage continues moving to social and mobile, Jared will lead our efforts to reach young people in the places […]
Tampa Bay Business Journal seeks reporter
Tampa Bay Business Journal is seeking a seasoned and thorough reporter who combines strong traditional journalism skills – source building, sharp interviewing, strong analytical and investigative reporting skills, clear writing, document use – with the latest digital storytelling techniques including video and social media. Whatever the platform, our reporters are asked to constantly generate innovative […]
Bizwomen.com seeks two reporters
Bizwomen.com is a newly launched news website that covers women in business across the country. It is a destination for breaking news, in-depth features and thought-provoking interviews with the country’s top female business leaders. We have two open reporter positions and are looking to fill them with news junkies who firmly believe that that the […]
FT’s CEO talks mobile subscribers and the importance of print
John Ridding, CEO of the Financial Times, talked about having the most paid subscribers in the newspaper’s 126-year history on CNN. “Mobile for us is a game changer,” said Ridding. “It enables us to reach people immediately. It is 50 percent of our traffic.” Ridding later added: “We believe in print. We think it is […]
