Defending Business Insider´s brand of journalism
Tom Foremski of ZDNet.com writes that Business Insider´s short stories and blogging is not what ails journalism, it is that journalism doesn´t have the money to produce as much long-form journalism as it has in the past. Foremski writes, ¨Outsiders don’t know how you are supposed to be do things, they don’t know that some […]
WSJ starts management/careers blog
The Wall Street Journal launched Thursday a blog called ‘At Work’ that focuses on management and careers. The blog is aimed toward a professional, working audience, as well as business and law school students. The blog examines how to make sense of the workplace landscape and provides a framework for thinking through career strategies, management […]
Using social media, personality and passion
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about how using personality and passion, as well as a dash of social media, can make business journalism thrive. Dvorkin writes, “I was struck last week by one particular post on Forbes.com that had personality and passion with a difference — the extra kick of a […]
Financial blogger must appear in court
A New York judge has ordered an anonymous blogger to appear in court next week over accusations that the blog Alfredlittle.com wrote false reports about a Chinese company to drive down the stock. Karen Freifield of Reuters writes, “Deer Consumer Products, a Chinese appliance maker listed on the NASDAQ exchange, last year sued ‘Alfred Little’ […]
What makes Weisenthal and Business Insider so good
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon writes about Business Insider and its star, Joe Weisenthal, in the wake of a profile about him in the New York Times Magazine, noting that a recent tweet by Weisenthal calling the jobs data a “DISASTER” explains their success. Salmon writes, “And in that ultra-fast tweet, Joe managed not only to […]
New biz site Quartz aiming for the 0.1 percent
Ryan Chittum of Columbia Journalism Review writes about the upcoming business news site from The Atlantic called Quartz and questions its strategy of aiming of an elite audience. Chittum writes, “But it’s disheartening to say the least that to find a business model for business journalism, The Atlantic believes it has to follow the reportorial […]
Business Insider’s Weisenthal is a machine
Joe Weisenthal of Business Insider is profiled by Binyamin Appelbaum of the New York Times and is described as being the most prolific and competitive of the financial news bloggers. Appelbaum writes, “In Weisenthal, Blodget has found a market-obsessive who embodies his vision. Weisenthal, 31 and still a bit baby-faced, is funny, omnivorous and well […]
TechCrunch says it’s not for sale
Alexia Tsotsis and Eric Eldon of the TechCrunch news site report that parent company AOL is not going to sell it. Tsotsis and Eldon write, “Sure, being um, reporters, we heard the sale rumors too. At some point, Jason Calacanis was also supposedly somehow in, and all the other tech blogs somehow won the Mega […]
AOL looking to sell tech news sites
Sarah Lacy of PandoDaily.com reports that AOL is seeking bids for its two tech news sites, TechCrunch and Engadget. Lacy writes, “The two would likely be sold together as AOL Tech, possibly including smaller assets like TUAW and Joystiq. “The asking price? A hefty $70 million to $100 million. “AOL is hoping to make something […]
Building an online readership base
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about how one of the business magazine’s bloggers, Anthony Kosner, has seen his readership go from 40,000 to 400,000 a month. Dvorkin writes, “Today, Anthony is a believer in our evolving model for incentive-based, entrepreneurial journalism. He uses words like ‘machine’ and ‘addictive’ to describe our […]
