The cream of the crop
The Daily Beast has a slide show Monday of the top “economic and business commentators” in the United States. Here is the list, with some of the comments: 15. Felix Salmon from Reuters. “Most statistically dexterous journalist.” 14. Alan Abelson from Barron’s. “Astute and unvarnished.” 13. Barry Ritholtz from The Big Picture. 12. Holman Jenkins […]
The fast-food nature of business journalism
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of The Deal, writes about the ramifications of a recent ad from Barron’s looking for a financial journalist to write 80 to 100 items per week about the fund industry. Kantrow writes, “That’s right. Eighty. To 100. Items. A week. Or 16 to 20 items a day. Or at least […]
Biz magazines outperform industry in second quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 14 business magazines published in the United States outperformed the overall magazine industry in the second quarter in terms of advertising revenue and ad pages. The financial and business magazines reported ad revenue of $328.1 million in the second three months of the year, up 11.3 percent from the same […]
Biz magazine performance better, but still down in first quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Business magazines continued to see their advertising revenue and pages decline in the first three months of the year, but at a slower pace than in 2009, according to an analysis of Publishers Information Bureau data by Talking Biz News. The sector also performed better than the overall magazine industry The […]
Dow Jones: No iPad access until we test
Eric Savitz, who blogs about tech for Barrons.com, has posted an internal Dow Jones & Co. policy related to the upcoming iPad and how it will interact with its networks. The memo reads: Apple will make the iPad available on April 3rd, 2010. We understand the commercial importance of this product as it presents another […]
Dow Jones, union reach agreement on new four-year contract
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and Marketwatch.com, and the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract. The package has been endorsed by the IAPE Bargaining Committee and is being reviewed by the union’s Executive Council. It will then be […]
Former journalists remember Byrne
Bob Goldsborough has an obituary in the Chicago Tribune Monday of Harlan Byrne, the former Wall Street Journal editor and Barron’s Midwest editor who died last week at the age of 89. Goldsborough writes, “He joined the Wall Street Journal in 1949 and worked in several bureaus before becoming assistant bureau manager in Chicago in […]
Remembering a colleague
Alan Abelson of Barron’s remembers Saturday his former colleague, Harlan Byrne, the Midwest editor of Barron’s who died earlier this week at the age of 89. Abelson writes, “From his Barron’s perch in the Windy City, Harlan cast an inquiring and knowing eye on a wide swath of Corporate America, especially those muscular companies that […]
Byrne, longtime Dow Jones journalist
Harlan Byrne, a longtime business journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal and for Barron’s for 56 years, died earlier this week in suburban Chicago. He was 89. Byrne was a graduate of the University of Missouri. An obituary notice in the Chicago Sun-Times states, “He joined The Wall Street Journal as a reporter […]
Biz media lose court ruling
Suzanne Barlyn of Dow Jones Newswires reports that business media such as Barron’s and Bloomberg have lost in a judge’s ruling as to whether documents could be unsealed that could shed light on charges that Mary Schapiro, now chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, misled brokers about terms of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s […]
