Weekend Wall Street Journal
If you want to see the front page of the new Wall Street Journal Weekend edition, you can click here to see a pdf file. It’s quite stunning as far as the layout. If...
Category: They Talk Biz News
Biz editing tips
I found this great list of tips of common mistakes in business stories and other advice on editing business stories on a copy editing Web site, so I am forwarding it on here. There...
TV station and WSJ editor win awards
The Houston television station that broke the story about the problem with Firestone tires on Ford SUVs and Paul Steiger, the top editor at the Wall Street Journal, are both being honored by the...
The Wall Street Journal this weekend
I’m very interested in seeing what the first Saturday edition of the Wall Street Journal looks like tomorrow when it comes out. I’m curious about the mixture of hard news stories from today’s business...
Bloomberg training
A guy by the name of Tom Contiliano is on the UNC campus today. Tom is a forensic accountant by training who works at Bloomberg News helping the journalists there understand what’s going on...
Bad disclosure
It was recently disclosed in the Baltimore City Paper that the Baltimore Sun’s architecture writer owned real estate in a number of neighborhoods in which he writes about. Maybe it’s just me, but I...
Carol Loomis update
I posted an item last week about Carol Loomis, the long-time Fortune writer whose memoirs of her 51-year career at the magazine were recently published in the 75th anniversary issue. I had a chance...
Reporting on yourself as a business
Few media publications, including business magazines and newspapers, write about themselves. When I worked at BusinessWeek, we never wrote about McGraw-Hill, our parent company. The Wall Street Journal never writes about the behind-the-scenes business...
A new biz magazine
The fact that Conde Nast wants to enter into the business magazine business, which was discussed in a New York Times article this morning, is not surprising when you look at the people behind...
A CEO's thin skin
When will CEOs ever learn that if you want to get better coverage in the media, the last thing you should do is criticize those covering you out in public? The latest CEO to...
