NBC unit launches work and finance beta site

A division of NBC has rolled out a beta site called WorkGoesStrong.com that offer finance and work advice aimed at people between the ages of 45 and 64. The site is a sister to similar Web portals being operated by Digital Works@NBCU, a division of iVillage Networks. The umbrella site, LifeGoesStrong.com, was launched in May […]

Briefing.com settles case with Dow Jones & Co.

Briefing.com paid a “substantial amount” and admitted liability to settle a lawsuit involving the unauthorized republication of news headlines and articles from Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch.com, according to a Dow Jones statement released Monday. In settling the lawsuit, Briefing.com admitted that copying and republishing portions […]

Covering the tech beat

Michael Arrington, the founder and editor of the technology news site TechCrunch, writes in the latest issue of Inc. magazine about how he does his job. Arrington writes, “If news is breaking, I want to be on it. We break more big stories than everyone else combined in tech — and that’s not prebriefed news […]

Sorkin talks Dealbook's changes and business journalism

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE New York Times business reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin founded the Dealbook blog and daily e-mail back in 2001, when such dissemination strategies for business news were in their infancy. Since that time, Dealbook’s readership has exploded — it has more than 200,000 subscribers to the daily e-mail newsletter, and more than […]

DailyFinance.com ME leaving for MSN Money

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Amey Stone, the managing editor of DailyFinance.com, a business site launched in 2009 by AOL, confirmed Wednesday morning that she is leaving the company to join one of its rivals. Stone says she is going to MSN Money where she’ll be deputy managing editor, based in New York. “I can tell […]

How is Dealbook different from the rest of the NYTimes biz coverage?

Reuters blogger Felix Salmon writes Tuesday about the relaunch of the New York Times business blog Dealbook and has some questions about its operations. Salmon writes, “There’s more going on here than a new silly logo. A lot of open questions remain, and I’m holding out a smidgen of hope that if I pose them […]

Reinvention or regression for Forbes?

Lucia Moses of MediaWeek examines Forbes‘ strategy of offering space on its Web site to corporate blogs and other writers. Moses writes, “Meanwhile, editors have been pressured to increasingly rely on nonpaid contributors for the Web, with the goal, as one former editor put it, ‘of not paying anything for content.’ “Traffic to the site […]

The man behind Dealbook

Emma Barnett of The Telegraph in London profiles Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times, who oversees its popular Dealbook blog and covers mergers and acquisitions. Barnett writes, “As of next Tuesday, November 9, what began life as just an daily financial email, will have a new website, mobile presence, full print page presence […]

More concerns about Forbes and its blogs

Felix Salmon of Reuters writes about a concern he has with companies being able to post information on the Forbes blog system. Salmon writes, “But while I was on the site, I clicked around a little bit, and soon stumbled across this post. ‘The Best Rewards Credit Cards For Your Lifestyle’ is the headline, but […]

Concerns about Forbes' blog strategy

Nat Ives of Advertising Age takes a look Thursday at the blogging strategy at Forbes, which allows companies such as software maker SAP to control content on their blogs, and finds some concerns. Ives writes, “An SAP banner ad appears below the AdVoice flag. And, of course, the standard author bio on the right describes […]