The most influential business news organizations
Reuters ranks No. 3, The Wall Street Journal No. 4 and Bloomberg News No. 5 in a ranking of news organizations who have had their reporting cited the most in Google News and Google Blog searches in the past month, according to data compiled by New York Times blogger and statistics-dicer extraordinaire Nate Silver. Jeff […]
More business journalism insights from “You Can’t Fire Everyone”
Hank Gilman, the deputy managing editor of Fortune, has a book out called “You Can’t Fire Everyone, and Other Lessons from an Accidental Manager.” In the book, he uses a lot of examples from the world of business journalism of what he likes and dislikes about managers. Here are a few: 1. Gilman doesn’t understand […]
More business journalism insights from "You Can't Fire Everyone"
Hank Gilman, the deputy managing editor of Fortune, has a book out called “You Can’t Fire Everyone, and Other Lessons from an Accidental Manager.” In the book, he uses a lot of examples from the world of business journalism of what he likes and dislikes about managers. Here are a few: 1. Gilman doesn’t understand […]
CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg Television and market share
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE With Fox Business Network announcing Tuesday that it would start having its shows tracked by Nielsen in terms of audience size, Talking Biz News decided to see what available information was already out there in terms of business news audiences on television. Data is already available for CNBC and Fox Business […]
Using data to recommend business news
Matthew Ingram of GigaOm writes Wednesday about how Bloomberg L.P. uses data about its users to recommend news of interest on its Bloomberg.com and BusinessWeek.com sites. Ingram writes, “In an interview with Stacey Higginbotham, the Bloomberg executive described how he built a predictive-analytics team within the media conglomerate that could use the behavior patterns and […]
Bloomberg combines consumer media operations into one unit
Bloomberg L.P. announced Tuesday that it has formed the Bloomberg Media Group, an operation that combines Bloomberg’s television, print, radio, mobile and digital media properties. Under the new structure, the business operations of Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets magazine, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg.com and Bloomberg Mobile will join together as one unit. The company’s core […]
Bloomberg Government competitor First Street in private beta testing
First Street, a government policy and lobbying service from CQ Press, has entered into private beta testing in advance of its April launch. The service is similar to Bloomberg Government, which launched at the beginning of the year. First Street includes congressional, government and lobbying data. Private beta participants include law/lobbying firms, media organizations, and […]
Fox Business also claims legal victory
Kathryn Glass of FoxBusiness.com has a story on Monday about the Supreme Court turning down the appeal of the banks, requiring the Federal Reserve to disclose who took loans from the government during the 2008 economic crisis. In addition to Bloomberg L.P., which filed the initial request for the documents, Fox Business Network was also […]
Supreme Court rejects appeal in case involving business media
The Federal Reserve must disclose details of emergency loans it made to banks in 2008 as the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by the banking industry to keep the records private after a Bloomberg News reporter requested them using the Freedom of Information Act. Greg Stohr and Bob Ivry of Bloomberg write, “Under […]
Bloomberg Television hires Dubai reporter
Bloomberg Television announced Friday that Lara Setrakian has joined the channel as a reporter based in Dubai. Setrakian, who joins Bloomberg from ABC News in Dubai, has expertise covering the Gulf. Most recently, she reported on the unrest in the Middle East from Saudi Arabia and Cairo’s Tahrir Square. While at ABC, Setrakian covered the […]
