"Pepper…And Salt" no longer on WSJ edit page menu
Cate Doty of The New York Times writes that the popular “Pepper…And Salt” editorial column that has appeared on The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial page for 58 years is now being published on the Leisure & Arts page. Doty writes, “Edited since 1950 by Charles Preston, the cartoon, which is culled from hundreds of submissions […]
CNet lays off 120
CNet Networks Inc. says it is laying off 120 employees as part of an effort to streamline the online media company while generating more content for its business news and entertainment sites, according to an Associated Press story. The AP story stated, “All the layoffs — about 4.4 percent of CNet’s work force — will […]
Biz editor remembers reporter Accola
Rocky Mountain News business editor Rob Reuteman wrote about reporter John Accola, who died this past weekend of a heart attack, in his Friday column. Reuteman wrote, “As someone who runs a team of business journalists, one of the aspects I appreciated most about John was how he rubbed off on those around him. Rocky […]
Wall Street Week’s Rukeyser has died
Wall Street Week host Louis Rukeyser has died, according to a story in the Baltimore Sun. He was 73. Rukeyser had not appeared on the show, which is now off the air, since 2003. Rukeyser’s journalism career began in the 1950s, and he spent more than a decade at the Baltimore Sun as a political […]
SF Chronicle biz section is critiqued
The ChronWatch Writers’ Blog has a critique of the Sunday business section of the San Francisco Chronicle, and it claims that the coverage has gotten “weaker.” Jim Sparkman, a retired Kaiser Aluminum executive writing on the blog, states, “Look at the latest Sunday edition, for example. The Business editor apparently decided that this will be […]
Yet another story about Jim Cramer
David Carr, writing in this morning’s New York Times, takes up the subject of Mad Money host Jim Cramer, who has also been profiled in recent weeks by the Philadelphia Inquirer and Dallas Morning News. Carr writes, “At a time when people will not pick up finance magazines with a set of tongs and too […]
