Covering Davos and the woman angle
Bloomberg TV anchor Francine Lacqua, who is based in London, gave an interview about Davos and whether the event really matters for women to The Jane Dough. She talked about her reporting experience as a business journalist. Sarah Devlin writes, “Bloomberg TV anchor Francine Lacqua, who has covered Davos on her show ‘On the Move’ […]
U.S. economic growth stalls
The news for the U.S. economy wasn’t good on Wednesday as domestic growth stalled. An increase in retail sales in the fourth quarter wasn’t enough to offset the biggest drop in government spending since 1973, according to the Wall Street Journal. What’s interesting is that the major business media interpreted the results differently. Here’s The […]
No credit to Reuters from competitors
Ryan Chittum of Columbia Journalism Review writes about how competing business news media did not credit Reuters’ investigative work last year on Chesapeake Energy for the announcement Tuesday that its CEO was stepping down. Chittum writes, “Beat reporters tend and their bosses not to like to give credit to competitors who have scooped them repeatedly. […]
Women behind the news at Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News editor in chief Matt Winkler spoke with Lisa Kassenaar, a former Wall Street reporter and senior writer for Bloomberg Markets magazine, who heads the Bloomberg News women’s initiative as editor-at-large of Global Women’s Coverage, about its interest in covering women-related business news. Here is an excerpt: KASSENAAR: Why is it so important, as […]
Biz media investigated in insider trading probe
Authorities have conducted a wide-ranging investigation into whether media companies facilitated insider trading on Wall Street by prematurely releasing market-moving government data, according to a Wall Street Journal article. Brody Mullins and Devlin Barrett write, “The federal investigation examined whether news organizations used high-speed transmission systems to give some investors access to economic data a […]
Bloomberg launches billionaires website
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index has just launched a new website that includes the top 100 billionaires worldwide and features transparent data visualization tools that let you easily slice and dice the data. It maps the flow of wealth on a daily basis and provides an understanding of how these individuals impact their respective industries and […]
The greatest collection of business newsmakers all year
Bloomberg Television anchor Erik Schatzker will be hosting “Market Makers” (10-12 pm ET) from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland all this week. This is Schatzker’s fifth year covering the event for Bloomberg TV. Schatzker regularly speaks with Wall Street’s most powerful executives and the top money managers from around the world. He’s interviewed […]
Adapting to changes going on in the world
Tom Keene of Bloomberg Television was interviewed by Alister & Paine, an online magazine, about his career and his work at Bloomberg. Here is an excerpt: Alister & Paine: How did you get your start at Bloomberg? Tom Keene: After 9/11 my investment business got incredibly slow. So I called Bloomberg up looking for a […]
Bloomberg TV economics editor leaves for BBC
Linda Yueh, the Bloomberg Television economics editor based in London, has left to become BBC’s chief business corrrespondent, based in Singapore. Louise Duffy of RapidTVNews.com writes, “Yueh will be based in Singapore, and will travel extensively throughout Asia and globally to cover the main economics and business news stories. In addition to reporting across BBC […]
Triplett, Bloomberg journalist and NLGJA president, dies
Michael Triplett, a Bloomberg journalist and president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, died earlier this month from cancer. He was 48. Adam Bernstein of The Washington Post writes, “At his death, Mr. Triplett was an assistant managing editor for the Daily Tax Report at Bloomberg BNA. “He had spent about 12 years […]
