Thomson purchases AFX business news wire
Electronic publisher Thomson Corp. is buying the AFX News Ltd. business news agency from Agence France-Presse for an undisclosed amount, the companies said on Wednesday.
Category: They Talk Biz News
Rochester biz editor leaves for local alliance
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle veteran Ellen Rosen has joined the Rochester Business Alliance Inc. in the newly created position of vice president of marketing, communications and membership, according to a report by Rochester Business...
A time bomb waiting to happen?
Former BusinessWeek reporter Gary Weiss, who has covered his fair share of Wall Street scandals and uncovered a number of crooked companies, has a problem with the idea that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban...
Conde Nast Portfolio shrewd at playing journalists for coverage
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman notes that the vast amounts of coverage being given the new Conde Nast business magazine has been primarily the result of the glossy playing journalists like a violin —...
Boeing employees fired for alleged leak to Seattle Times
Aerospace giant Boeing has fired an employee suspected of leaking internal documents to a business reporter at the Seattle Times who has used the information to write stories about the company, according to the...
Changes at Memphis biz & government paper
The Memphis Daily News, which is a business and government newspaper, announced the addition of a new editorial staffer and a redesign in Wednesday’s paper. It wrote, “With today’s issue of The Daily News,...
Another one bites the dust: Richmond drops stock listings
The Richmond Times-Dispatch, a Media General newspaper, became the latest metropolitan newspaper to drop publishing daily stock listings. The change will take place on July 15. Other metro newspapers to announce this year that...
Investigative biz journalism web site to start
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is the sole investor in a new website devoted to investigative business journalism that will be run by a former St. Louis Post-Dispatch business journalist. In an e-mail, Christopher...
Financial Times CEO bullish on biz journalism
John Ridding, the new chief executive officer of the Financial Times and FT.com, sent an e-mail to the newspaper’s staff on Monday in an attempt to rally the troops, and he expressed a positive...
Conde Nast biz magazine won't be writing about parent
Conde Nast Portfolio editor Joanne Lipman likely won’t be overseeing any stories in the magazine about the parent company or the Newhouse family, she told the Media Industry Newsletter. That’s unlike Fortune, which has...
