BusinessWeek to begin podcasting for Welch column
BusinessWeek announced that columnists Jack and Suzy Welch will do a weekly podcast about their column, “The Welch Way.” This is the first venture into this type of digital technology for the legendary former CEO of General Electric and his wife Suzy, former editor of the Harvard Business Review. The podcast of “The Welch Way” […]
Editor in chief returns to Chief Executive magazine
Chief Executive announced Thursday that J.P. Donlon has rejoined the magazine as editor-in-chief. He replaces William Holstein, who had replaced Donlon as editor-in-chief. Holstein is a former BusinessWeek editor. There is no word on where he is going in the press release. The magazine’s West Coast editor, Russ Mitchell, is also a former BusinessWeek editor […]
Fortune names new Washington bureau chief
Nina Easton was named as Fortune maagazine’s new Washington bureau chief. Easton was previously at the Boston Globe, where she was the deputy Washington bureau chief and lead national political writer. She’s also a contributor to Fox News, and has been a commentator on CNN’s “NewsNight,â€? ABC’s “This Weekâ€? and CBS’s “Face the Nation.â€? “Nina […]
NY Post: Sloan could be headed to BusinessWeek
The New York Post is reporting Friday that Allan Sloan, Newsweek’s Wall Street editor and one of, if not the best, top business journalists in the country today, is in talks to move to BusinessWeek. If it happens, Sloan would be the third top business journalist to depart Newsweek in the past year. Charles Gasparino […]
BW writer responds to GM's Bob Lutz
General Motors’ executive Bob Lutz is not one to take criticism without responding. So in a recent speech, he noted all of the reporters and editors from the financial media — BusinessWeek, Fortune, Wall Street Journal and others — who have written or stated that GM’s products are boring and that the company has lost […]
SEC needs to define what is a journalist
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s new regulations on when a journalist can be subpoenaed left out one important detail, according to former BusinessWeek reporter Gary Weiss, who points this out on his blog: They didn’t define who is a journalist and who isn’t. While at first blush this might seem like a black and white […]
SEC's decision: Subpoenas only in rare cases
The Securities and Exchange Commission decided on Wednesday that it will only subpoena journalists to gather information for its investigations in rare cases, according to published reports this morning. The SEC earlier this year had subpoenaed three reporters in its investigation into allegations against a hedge fund and a research firm for giving information about […]
GM execs blames shorts for negative stories
Robert Lutz, a General Motors executive and one of the most outspoken auto industry executives in the past 25 years, said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” today that he believes that some analysts with short positions are the impetus behind negative stories about the automaker recently. CNBC, in it’s infinite wisdom, is running an online poll […]
Feds file charges on insider trading scam using BusinessWeek info
Federal authorities have filed charges against a Merrill Lynch analyst and two Lehman Brothers employees who developed an elaborate insider trading scam that involved using en employee at the printing plant where BusinessWeek is printed every week to get inside information, MarketWatch is reporting. Marketwatch reports, “Authorities also charged Juan Renteria, 20, an employee of […]
Wall Street and the media that covers it
I received a copy of “Wall Street vs. America: The Rampant Greed and Dishonesty that Imperil your Investments,” a new book by former BusinessWeek writer Gary Weiss, during the weekend, and went through the book and found some good points about business journalism. Here they are: 1. Anything that was not covered by The Wall […]
