Washington Post to launch economic policy blog featuring Ezra Klein
The Washington Post will launch Wonkblog, a new online feature combing reporting and analysis on economic and domestic policy, on Tuesday. An outgrowth of Ezra Klein’s popular policy column, Wonkblog will provide news updates, interviews and analysis throughout the day with reporting by policy writers Suzy Khimm, Sarah Kliff and Brad Plumer, and continued reporting […]
AOL decides to terminate Arrington
Dan Primack of Fortune is reporting that AOL has decided to terminate TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who has started a venture capital fund to invest in tech companies. Primack writes, “Instead, Fortune has learned that AOL executives have decided to terminate Arrington. It is unclear how this will officially occur. Maybe a pink slip. Maybe […]
Reuters launches Counterparties, a financial news link site
Reuters unveiled Tuesday its new website, Counterparties, a linkblog for financial news and commentary, offering a curated look at the day’s big stories. The site is being edited by Reuters financial blogger Felix Salmon and Ryan McCarthy and the name is taken from the title that Salmon uses on his blog to post links to […]
TechCrunch writer fears the site is doomed
M.G. Siegler, a writer on the tech news site TechCrunch, writes that its new owner AOL is ruining the site with its handling of founder Michael Arrington, who was removed from overseeing it after starting a venture capital fund. Siegler writes, “Could TechCrunch survive without Mike Arrington? Probably. We’re doing so many pageviews now, and […]
Arrington resigns as ME of TechCrunch to run venture capital fund
Michael Arrington, the founder and managing editor of the tech news site TechCrunch, has resigned as managing editor of the site so that he can run a venture capital fund that will invest in startup tech companies. Scott Austin of The Wall Street Journal writes, “‘Mike will run the fund and will continue to write […]
Bloomberg loses in attempt to get analyst call case dismissed
Bloomberg LP lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by Swatch Group AG that accused the news service of secretly recording an earnings conference call with securities analysts and giving a transcript to clients. Moira Herbst of Reuters writes, “Swatch accused Bloomberg of tapping into its Feb. 8 earnings call and providing a transcript that […]
WaPo hires three bloggers to work with economics columnist Klein
The Washington Post has hired three bloggers to work with Ezra Klein, its popular economics columnist. Jim Romenesko has the memo from the business news desk announcing the hires. It states: The Financial staff is thrilled to announce that we’ve hired three talented bloggers to work with Ezra Klein. Stay tuned, because we’ll have more […]
Norris to blog for Economix
Floyd Norris, the chief financial correspondent at The New York Times, is now going to be a featured blogger for its Economix blog. An item from the Economix editors states, “He was also among the first regular bloggers at The Times, with a blog called Notions on High and Low Finance. Now he will join […]
Tech journalists leaving Engadget
Kara Swisher of All Things Digital reports that former Engadget editor Josh Topolsky just hired away another group of tech journalists from the giant gadgets news and reviews organization for his unnamed site that has not launched. Swisher writes, “But, by April, he had grabbed eight prominent Engadget staffers who had left the huge tech […]
Seeking Alpha on track to pay bloggers $1.2 million
Financial news and earnings transcript site Seeking Alpha is on schedule to pay its bloggers $1.2 million in compensation this year, reports David Kaplan of PaidContent.org. Kaplan writes, “While most of the site’s 4,000 contributors write their posts for free—in exchange for the promotional value to an audience of investors and analysts—it is looking to […]
