Behind the scenes at the WSJ’s Corporate Intelligence blog
Dennis Berman, the marketplace editor of The Wall Street Journal, is looking for the paper’s news staff to contribute more to the Corporate Intelligence blog that it launched in October. Here is the email he sent out on Wednesday: The Corporate Intelligence (http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/) blog was launched at the start of October and has already become […]
The WSJ’s health blog is now flatlining
Public relations practitioner Brian Reid mourns the loss of the Wall Street Journal‘s health blog, where the plug was pulled on Thursday. Reid writes, “In March of 2007, I wrote a note to the staff here about the emergence of a new health blog that I thought had the potential to upend the health reporting […]
CNNMoney.com, Kiplinger win Eppy Awards
CNNMoney.com and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance were among the business news media that won Eppy Awards for their websites. CNNMoney won for best business/finance website with 1 million unique monthly visitors and over. Your Business by Kiplinger.com won for best business/finance website with under 1 million unique monthly visitors. In addition, Bloomberg News won for best […]
WSJ launches real-time biz news stream and blog
The Wall Street Journal launched Wednesday Corporate Intelligence, a real-time story stream focused on the most important company news of each business day. Available for Journal digital subscribers by desktop and as a web app saved to smartphones, the stream brings together the expertise of the Journal’s network of business reporters across the globe. Anchoring […]
Crain’s New York launching Insider blog
Crain’s New York Business’ stand-alone newsletter will no longer be delivered by email every morning. Instead, subscribers can now get the weekly business newspaper’s online content on a blog. Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke of The New York Observer writes, “‘Crain’s Insider newsletter will be turned into an online blog that offers news on the business of politics during […]
Big traffic increase this week for Apple blogs
Steve Smith of minonline writes about how blogs and sites that cover Apple reported a large increase in traffic this week due to the iPhone 5 announcement. Smith writes, “IDG’s Macworld.com reports that its live blog of the Apple presentation in San Francisco drew 300,000 unique visitors. The event gave the site twice its typical […]
Blogging about Apple is big business
Mark Milian and Adam Satariano of Bloomberg News write about how a number of bloggers who cover tech company Apple are making quite a nice living. Milian and Satariano write, “Arnold Kim, who started MacRumors in 2000, left his job as a kidney doctor four years ago to focus on his gossip site full time. Ad revenue supports […]
Coal company sues reporter, paper for libel
A coal mine operator is suing a West Virginia newspaper and reporter for libel. Erica Peterson of WFPL writes, “Murray Energy Corporation filed suit against environment reporter Ken Ward Jr. and the Charleston Gazette last month, andthe case was recently transferred to federal district court. The complaint is on behalf of Murray Energy, its subsidiaries, […]
Techdirt to offer premium content
The technology news site Techdirt is offering a new subscription service that allows readers to read, among other things, stories before they are posted and stories that may never get posted. Mike Masnick of Techdirt writes, “It has many of the same offerings that the original had, but a bunch of new and expanded offerings […]
Reuters blogs hacked on Friday
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