WSJ is a beacon compared to Yahoo! and Google Finance
Christine Brendle, the managing director of Wall Street Journal Asia, is not worried that the business newspaper faces increased competition from online finance Web sites such as Yahoo! and Google Finance, launched last week. In an interview in India, Brendle said, “When people get on Google or Yahoo or when they get on the Net, […]
Subpoena requests firm's contact with eight financial reporters
The New York Post is reporting Tuesday that a subpoena to research firm Gradient Analytics asked for records of all e-mail and phone contacts Gradient has had with approximately eight financial reporters. The eight reporters are Marketwatch’s Herb Greenberg, Mad Money host Jim Cramer, Dow Jones Newswire’s Carol Remond, Bethany McLean of Fortune magazine, Jesse […]
Why hasn't this story been reported by more media outlets?
I should have known better. After finding stories about executive compensation at Reuters and McGraw-Hill in the past 24 hours on the Internet, I did a quick search to see if any of the other business journalism-related companies had filed a proxy statement. Dow Jones, the parent of the Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, filed […]
Magazine covers as investment tools
Barry Ritholtz, who is president of a money manager in New York and writes a blog called “The Big Picture,” has an interesting comment today about using the covers of major magazines as indicators of how to invest. Ritholtz notes that there are 56 covers of major magazines with Apple’s Steve Jobs on the front. […]
Ad sales up at the Wall Street Journal, Barron's
Dow Jones reported strong growth in ad sales at its business publications in February. Here is an excerpt from the release: “Advertising linage at The Wall Street Journal, including Weekend Edition increased 18.6% in February due to increases in classified, general and financial advertising, partially offset by a decrease in technology advertising. In the classified […]
Barron's online editor: Financial journalism moving online
Howard Gold is leaving Barron’s Online after editing the Internet version of the financial publication for nearly a decade. In his farewell column, Gold revisits six predictions he made in 1998 about the Internet revolutionizing the media landscape, notes The Media Stock Blog. Here are a couple of them, courtesy of Media Stock Blog, since […]
Dow Jones management shuffle continues
The new publisher of the Wall Street Journal is L. Gordon Crovitz. He is also becoming an executive vice president at Dow Jones and will oversee Barron’s and MarketWatch as well. Crovitz served since October 1998 as senior vice president of Dow Jones and president of the Electronic Publishing group, where he was responsible for […]
How did Barron's affect Google's stock price?
Here is the power — and the weakness — of the financial press: Other media are reporting that weekly newspaper Barron’s critical article about Google is the reason why its stock fell. The Associated Press wrote: “Shares of Google Inc. fell nearly 5% yesterday after Barron’s warned factors such as heightened competition, ad-pricing pressures and […]
Criticizing the Barron's piece on Google
The Internet chat rooms focused on stocks have been lit up this week about the drop in Google’s stock price, which began with a critical piece in the most-recent issue of Barron’s. Now, others in the financial press are jumping into the fray, questioning why the story was written. Andrew Feinberg, who writes a blog […]
Barron's online to keep site free until Feb. 20
The Dow Jones subsidiary is hoping to attract more visitors to its online site by keeping it available to the general public before it cuts them off and makes everything available only to subscribers. They recently disclosed that they have 45,000 paying subscribers since they split the paid online away from the Wall Street Journal. […]
