BW to launch Business YouTube?
Mike Shields of MediaWeek writes that BusinessWeek is looking at creating a “business YouTube” that would essentially be an online video hub for wannabe moguls to post short pitch videos for a new ventures or companies. Shields wrote that John Byrne, the magazine’s executive editor, is looking at the idea. Shields wrote, “Byrne, speaking during […]
Read BusinessWeek on the plane through the peanuts
BusinessWeek has struck a deal where it will provide some of its content on the trays of airplane seats, according to a release. The release stated, “The BusinessWeek columns will be adhered to seatback tray tables on domestic air carriers through a patented process. The aisle, middle and center seats will each feature different BusinessWeek […]
BusinessWeek news editor leaves for NYT Sunday section
Patricia Kranz, the national news editor at BusinessWeek, is leaving the glossy to become deputy editor of the New York Times Sunday Business section, according to a memo posted on the Romenesko site. The memo from Sunday Business editor Timothy O’Brien stated, “Patty is a complete pro, described by colleagues at BusinessWeek and admirers at […]
Sloan on Sloan
Allan Sloan, the Newsweek Wall Street editor who announced last week he was leaving to work for Fortune magazine, said Monday that the decision was partly based on working with an old colleague and the demand for high-end business journalism caused by the launches of Portfolio magazine and Fox Business News. “I’m just excited about […]
Vamos named first O’Neil chair in biz journalism at SMU
Mark Vamos, former editor-in-chief of the national business magazine Fast Company and a former senior editor of both Newsweek and BusinessWeek, has been appointed the William J. O’Neil Chair in Business Journalism and senior lecturer at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He will start in August with the […]
Critics misguided for slamming WSJ's Steiger
TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow wonders what was behind a New York Times story earlier this week that wrote about the fact that Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger knew that News Corp. had made a $5 billion offer for the Journal’s parent company Dow Jones & Co. but didn’t disclose it to journalists […]
WSJ needs Murdoch like another hole in head
William Powers of The National Journal takes issue with all of the coverage of the proposed News Corp. acquisition of Dow Jones & Co. that emphasizes that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch is a media genuis who will save The Wall Street Journal. The three articles that Powers mentions as espousing this theory are in […]
The nasty blot at the end of Steiger's career
BusinessWeek’s Jon Fine writes that the decision by Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger to hold the story that the Journal’s parent company, Dow Jones & Co., had received a $5 billion takeover offer from News Corp. will end up being a “nasty blot” at the end of his career. It was announced last month that Steiger […]
Journalists plan to sue Hewlett-Packard over spying
Damon Darlin of the New York Times writes Monday that three CNET business journalists who were spied on by computer maker Hewlett-Packard to determine leaks from its board plan to sue the company for invasion of privacy. Darlin wrote, “While the dispute revolves around the issue of how the journalists’ careers may have been damaged […]
New Loeb Award final judges announced
The G. and R. Loeb Foundation and UCLA Anderson School of Management announce changes Monday to the final judging panel of the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Named as new final judges are: Matthew Bishop, bureau chief, The Economist; Douglas Frantz, managing editor, Los Angeles Times; Chrystia Freeland, U.S. managing editor, […]
