TechCrunch, site that covers tech news, to be sold to AOL
Om Malik of GigaOm is reporting that the TechCrunch site that covers the technology world is about to be sold to AOL, which has a number of business-related sites, including DailyFinance.com. Malik writes, “The deal is at a sensitive stage and might fall apart yet, but I don’t think so. Sources familiar with both entities […]
The blogging strategy at Forbes includes selling them to companies
Michael Learmonth of Advertising Age writes Sunday about a previously unreported part of the Forbes overhaul — selling blog space to corporations under the Forbes brand. Learmonth writes, “The pitch is this: We’ll sell you a blog, and your content will live alongside that of Forbes’ journalists and bloggers. This isn’t the’sponsored post’ of yore; […]
Bloomberg Markets editor Henkoff talks about its changes
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The November issue of Bloomberg Markets, which goes on sale Oct. 1, will unveil a number of changes in the magazine. There are new editorial sections devoted to personal wealth and careers. The rate base is jumping from 315,000 to 355,000. A new global distributor is in place to make sure […]
Recognizing top business journalists
Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman annoints a number of business journalists who are at the top of the game when it comes to breaking news and blogging. Here are his selections: Scoop-meisters: Jeff Bercovici, Keith Kelly, John Koblin Bercovici of AOL’s Daily Finance, Kelly of the New York Post and Koblin of The New York […]
HP breaks its own news
Taylor Buley of Forbes.com notes that Hewlett-Packard broke the news Tuesday that it was suing its former CEO Mark Hurd by posting a story and the lawsuit on its own site. Buley writes, “Usually this would mark the moment when I urgently ask Forbes researcher Sue Radlauer to help me dig up the legal docs […]
The future of financial journalism
Elliot Turner of Wall St. Cheat Sheet interviewed Justin Fox, the editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, about business journalism and its future. Here is an excerpt: Elliot: As one with a background in both finance and journalism, and someone who has been active in the blogosphere, what do you think about the future […]
The billionaire beat at Forbes
Joe Pompeo of The Business Insider writes Thursday about how Forbes has been hiring bloggers to cover billionaires around the globe. Pompeo writes, “As part of that expansion, Forbes.com has recruited a handful of freelance journalists to blog about the people on its annual World’s Billionaires List, with news, analysis and, of course, inside dirt, […]
Talking Biz News turns five
Talking Biz News, the daily blog about business journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is five years old today. During that time, there have been massive changes in business journalism, from the sale of The Wall Street Journal/Barron’s/Marketwatch.com/Dow Jones Newswires to the closing of Business 2.0 and the start and closing […]
Forbes' blogging strategy could dilute brand
Lauren Kirchner of Columbia Journalism Review is worried about what Forbes‘ new strategy where every writer will have a blog will mean to the business magazine. Kirchner writes, “But it’s unclear whether these models will work with Forbes.com’s particular audience. (It’s the exact opposite of the Economist style, where the pieces are all written in […]
Journalists hired for Changing Gears site
Micki Maynard, the former New York Times auto reporter who now oversees the “Changing Gears” journalism project examining the economic and social shifts in the Midwest, announced a staff for the project on Thursday. They include: Dan Bobkoff, a Changing Gears reporter based in Cleveland. Bobkoff has been a staff reporter at 90.3 WCPN ideastream and frequent […]
