How a business editor celebrates Halloween
Scott Perry, the business editor of the Herald-Review in Decatur, Ill., dressed up for Halloween in the newsroom Thursday. The photo is by Allison Petty, a reporter at the paper. In an email to Talking Biz News, Perry wrote: Up until a couple years ago, this was an every year thing. Unlike this year’s costume, […]
Bloomberg Businessweek hires deputy editor for Etc.
Matthew Lynch of Capital New York reports Thursday that Kurt Soller has been hired as the deputy editor of the Etc. section in Bloomberg Businessweek. Pompeo writes, “Soller will join Businessweek from New York magazine’s women’s-interest standalone web portal, The Cut, where he worked as a features editor. He will report to ‘Etc.’ editor Emma Rosenblum, […]
SABEW Best in Business contest adds new categories
The 19th annual Best in Business competition from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers will open for entries on Monday, Dec. 2, 2013. The contest, the largest of its kind, honors excellence in business journalism across all news platforms. “Honoring the best work in business journalism is one of the most exciting and […]
WSJ names new finance editors
Francesco Guerrara, the finance and markets editor at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff promotions on Thursday: The Finance and Markets group has come a long way since Gerry identified us as the “guinea pig” of newsroom integration a few months ago. We are now operating as a unified group, serving all […]
Pearlstine leaving Bloomberg and returning to Time
Media executive Norman Pearlstine is stepping down as Bloomberg LP‘s chief content officer, in order to take a similar position with Time Inc., reports Dan Primack of Fortune. Primack writes, “This is a homecoming of sorts for Pearlstine, who served as editor-in-chief of Time Inc. from 1995 through 2005 (after more than two decades with The […]
Forbes to launch edition in Armenia
Forbes announced Thursday the launch of its latest local-language edition, Forbes Armenia, in partnership with Media Partners, Armenia. The Armenia edition of Forbes, which will be promoted as the first international business magazine in Armenia, will appear on newsstands in November. Gagik Yeghiazarian will serve as the editor in chief of the magazine. Yeghiazarian is a […]
Consumer Reports restructuring for the digital era
Jim Romenesko examines the strategy at Consumer Reports, which is undergoing radical changes this year, including the departure of longtime editor Kim Kleman. Romenesko writes, “Spokesperson Hackett tells me that, yes, change is hard but the restructuring is working. “She writes in an email: “‘On the business side things are starting to level out: subscriptions […]
Financial literacy and business journalism
Felix Salmon of Reuters writes Thursday about the importance of financial literacy for business journalists. Salmon writes, “But there’s a superficial exactness to numbers that doesn’t exist in words, and so people have a tendency to believe that all numbers are much more precise than in fact they are. If the Labor Department releases a […]
Who will be the next big tech critic?
Matt Buchanan of The New Yorker writes about when the next great technology critic will come along in the wake of The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Mossberg and The New York Times’s David Pogue moving to online jobs. Buchanan writes, “The questions that consumers face, in other words, are less about what to buy than […]
Longtime California business editor retires
Eric Grunder, the business editor of the Stockton Record in California, retired on Wednesday. A Record story states, “A well-respected journalist, Grunder, 65, has served in various roles at The Record. He joined the company in 1985 as a copy editor when the newspaper was owned by Gannett Co. He came from a managing editor […]
