Media showing too much enthusiasm for market merger
Former BusinessWeek reporter Gary Weiss notes on his blog that the media is playing too much footsie in its coverage of the New York Stock Exchange-Euronext merger. Combining stock exchanges will not mean a whole lot for individual investors, argues Weiss, contrary to what has been written by many business journalists. He wrote, “OK. If […]
IBM pulls ads from BusinessWeek
International Business Machines has decided to discontinue advertising in BusinessWeek magazine, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, although the pullout has nothing to do with a negative article in the glossy. Reporter Brian Sternberg wrote, “IBM has been one of BusinessWeek’s top advertisers in recent years, according to TNS Media Intelligence, […]
Columbia's Terri Thompson to be honored
Terri Thompson, director of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University, will be honored by the New York Financial Writers’ Association on Thursday, June 8. She will receive the NYFWA’s Elliott V. Bell Award, given “to an outstanding journalist for a significant long-term contribution to the profession of financial journalism.” […]
The challenge for Conde Nast Portfolio
According to Media Life’s Samantha Melamed, new business glossy Conde Nast Portfolio will need to have journalism that will distinguish itself from others in the group. Melamed wrote, “The challenge for the new monthly title will be to present readers the sort of engaging journalism that will separate it from the slew of existing titles, […]
Business mags have gotten weird, according to Kantrow
TheDeal.com Executive Editor Yvette Kantrow, who writes a weekly column called “Media Maneuvers,” has a fit in her latest about the most recent cover topic of Smart Money magazine, which claims to have discovered some important ways for all of us to stay healthy, not that that’s a business issue. Kantrow writes, “SmartMoney certainly leads […]
Adler shakes up BusinessWeek
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman continues his analysis of the business magazines with a column Friday on the changes that new editor Stephen Adler has made at BusinessWeek since he took over in 2005. It should be noted that Friedman once worked at BusinessWeek, as did I. Adler has had to overcome the perception that […]
SEC filings may not be as good in disclosure
BusinessWeek’s Dawn Kopecki has a great story posted on the magazine’s Web site and in other places on the Internet today about how President Bush has given his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, the power to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations. In other words, companies can omit information from their […]
Does business journalism attract the best minds today?
Willy Stern, a former writer for Forbes, BusinessWeek and other publications, writes in the Nashville Scene how the journalism business has changed, and he argues that the most important change has been in the talent in the newsroom. Stern writes, “We journalists are an I.Q.-driven profession. In business school terms, our primary source of capital […]
Deadline Club winners dominated by biz journalism
Although there is two categories for business journalism, the winners of many of the other categories for the Deadline Club contest, organized by the New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, were business journalists or stories about how business is affecting society. Ellen Schultz of the Wall Street Journal, for example, won in […]
New biz editor at South China Morning Post
Stuart Jackson, who had been the business editor at the Hong Kong Standard, and before that was a high-ranking editor at Bloomberg News and at BusinessWeek, has been named the business editor of the South China Morning Post, according to this blog. He was hired by Mark Clifford, himself a former BusinessWeek person. The blog […]
