Social media is part of this real estate reporter’s routine
Regan Pecjak and Paola Soto of U-T San Diego write about how the paper’s real estate reporter, Lily Leung, uses social media to cover her beat. Pecjak and Soto write, “Leung blogs, tweets and uses storify, a web application that allows for the creation of stories from social media resources, just to name a few. […]
Dallas biz magazine launches health care biz news site
D CEO business magazine in Dallas has launched a new site called D Healthcare Daily that covers the area’s health care industry. Christine Perez, the managing editor of D CEO, explains the rationale behind the new site in an email to Talking Biz News: After the success of RealPoints, a commercial real estate news site we […]
How Bloomberg helped the SCOTUS blog
Keach Hagey of The Wall Street Journal writes Friday about how Bloomberg Law’s sponsorship of the SCOTUS blog helped it handle the overwhelming increase in traffic Thursday after the Supreme Court ruled on the administration’s health care laws. Hagey writes, “That changed last fall, when Bloomberg Law became the SCOTUSblog’s exclusive sponsor. The multiyear sponsorship, […]
Reuters, WSJ, Milwaukee and Detroit papers among Loeb winners
Felix Salmon of Reuters and The Wall Street Journal are winners of Gerald Loeb Awards, considered the Pulitzer Prizes of business journalism. Salmon won in the blogging category. Reuters also won in the news service category for “Shell Games” by Brian Grow, Kelly Carr, Laurence Fletcher, Nanette Byrnes, Matthew Bigg, Joshua Schneyer, Cynthia Johnston and […]
Puget Sound Business Journal folds Tech Flash back into site
In October 2008, the Puget Sound Business Journal hired two tech reporters from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and let them start a standalone tech site called TechFlash. But in March 2011, the two journalists left the American City Business Journals newspaper and started a tech news site of their own called GeekWire. Since then the Business […]
The teenager scooping biz journalists with his Apple coverage
Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Fortune writes about Mark Gurman, the 18-year-old high school student who has been beating the other business media with his scoops on Apple that he writes for Seth Weintraub’s 9to5Mac. Elmer-DeWitt writes, “I ran into Gurman in San Francisco, where he is attending Apple’s developer sessions. He clammed up when I asked […]
Forbes expansion on web comes with pain
Lauren Indvik of Mashable writes about the growing pains at Forbes being experienced by allowing online contributors without first vetting their content. Indvik writes, “The system allows Forbes.com to produce more content more quickly. It also saves the publication the cost of hiring and maintaining editors. “But it comes with other costs. Take a post […]
The most influential tech bloggers
Sam Narisi of ITManager Daily has a list of the 100 most influential tech bloggers. Here are some of his picks: Chris Ziegler of The Verge: Chris is a senior editor for The Verge covering the latest news and developments in mobile technology, well respected for his writing and reporting. Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat: Dean […]
Quartz aims for a digital business news experience
Kevin Delaney. who is overseeing the launch of the new Atlantic business news site called Quartz, conducted an interview with Emma Gardner of The Economist about the project. Here is an excerpt: Why are you focusing on digital platforms like the tablet? There are three main reasons why we’re viewing mobile and tablet as primary […]
The nicest guy — and most powerful site — in tech blogging
Richard Nieva of Fortune writes about Tim Stevens, the editor in chief of tech blog Engadget and, he argues, one of the most powerful people in the tech world. Nieva writes, “Peter Rojas founded the blog in his tiny Lower East Side apartment in 2004, with the goal of covering technology in plain speech. In […]
