WaPo launches energy and environment blog
Washington Post national economy and business editor Greg Schneider and deputy business editor David Cho made the following announcement on Thursday: We’re thrilled to announce the debut of Energy and Environment with Chris Mooney, a robust destination for news and sharp analysis about climate change, energy and sustainability issues. Chris is a long-time science and […]
Gawker combining tech news blogs
Gawker Media said Thursday it is combining its tech-focused blogs — Gizmodo, which tends to focus on hardware, and the more entertainment-oriented io9, as well as several smaller blogs like Paleofuture — into a single unit run by current io9 editor Annalee Newitz, reports Matthew Ingram of GigaOm. Ingram writes, “Over the past year or so, the […]
Dan Lyons named new Valleywag editor
Dan Lyons, the former Forbes tech reporter best known for his fake Steve Jobs blog, has been hired to be the next editor in chief of tech news site Valleywag, reports Peter Kafka of Re/code. Here is an excerpt of an interview Kafka did with Lyons: So what’s your plan for Valleywag? I think, at […]
Salmon on the future of financial media
Felix Salmon of Fusion, formerly with Reuters and Conde Nast Portfolio, spoke with Benzinga about the future of financial journalism. Brianna Valleskey writes, “First and foremost, Salmon thinks those forecasting the death of the terminal businesses are deluding themselves. “‘Having wrote for Thomson Reuters, knowing a lot of people who wrote for Bloomberg — Those […]
Impractical personal finance advice on the Web runs amok
Brian O’Connor, the finance editor of the Detroit News, writes Monday about a personal finance blogger he found on the Internet giving bad advice. O’Connor writes, “When it’s not wholly impractical, most personal finance advice on the Web runs the gamut from blatantly obvious to trivially useless. But now I’ve run across a post from […]
WaPo biz news desk to create blog on the environment
Washington Post business editor Greg Schneider and deputy business editor David Cho sent out the following announcement on Friday: We’re thrilled to announce that Chris Mooney is joining The Post to create a new blog about the environment. Chris joins us from Mother Jones, where he has written about science and the environment and hosted […]
Financial journalism should be interesting, but not always actionable
The best financial reporting is interesting, but too many in the financial media try to make all news “actionable,” said a well-known financial blogger and money manager on Monday. “What the media wants is to have every piece of news ‘actionable,” said Joshua Brown, who writes The Reformed Broker blog and is CEO of Ritholtz […]
WSJ hires Bowers to edit Real Time Economics
Becky Bowers, a journalist with the Tampa Bay Times and Politifact for the past 12 years, has been hired by the Wall Street Journal to edit its Real Time Economics blog. She will start Sept. 2. Bowers currently directs digital operations for PolitiFact’s national, state and international sites and mobile products — and sometimes, just […]
LATimes biz desk launches Hot Property blog
Los Angeles Times business editor Kimi Yoshino announced the debut of the Hot Property blog and the addition of reporter Neal Leitereg. Here’s her memo to the staff: Since its inception in 1984, Hot Property has been a trailblazer for celebrity real estate news – a Times hallmark emulated by numerous other outlets in print […]
Silverman revives Pharmalot blog for WSJ
Ed Silverman, who now is a special writer for The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: I’m happy to introduce the latest iteration of the Pharmalot blog. After a brief hiatus, Pharmalot has found a new home with The Wall Street Journal as part of its ongoing commitment to provide must-read […]
