Who we are and where did we come from?
I received in the mail today a monograph from a professor in Spain with whom I have been corresponding with in the past several months. The title of the monograph is “Economic and Financial Press: From the Beginnings to the First Oil Crisis,” and it is written by Angel Arrese, a professor at the University […]
Expanding SABEW membership?
One of the things that I have been wondering about in relation to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers is how to keep this fine organization growing. And it seems as if SABEW has yet to tap the vast potential of membership within business-related magazines and with the weekly business newspapers that are […]
Reporting on the Fed
I spent some time on Monday talking to reporters and editors who follow the Federal Reserve about the new chairman Ben Bernanke and how he will differ in his dealings with the media compared to outgoing chairman Alan Greenspan, who was one of the most visable people covered in business journalism in the past 18 […]
A black eye for Consumer Reports?
I have always respected Consumer Reports and given it credit for the creation of the consumer reporting movement in business journalism. But the editor of the Rocky Mountain News recently wrote about it in a not-so-flattering way. Read what he had to say here. To be fair, this seems like an advertising department idea that […]
Another slap at the Saturday Wall Street Journal
Apparently Bill Keller, who is the executive editor of the New York Times, doesn’t think much about the Saturday Wall Street Journal. Read his comments online at BusinessWeek here. Keller’s chief complaint? He doesn’t think the paper is breaking news on Saturday the same way it breaks news during the week.
A talk with Steve Shepard
I spoke today with Steve Shepard, my old boss at BusinessWeek. Steve stepped down as editor of the magazine earlier this year after 20 years at the helm. He’s now the dean of the new graduate school of journalism at the City University of New York, and as part of that program, the school will […]
Newsweek's Jane Bryant Quinn
I moved one office over today from Allan Sloan’s and talked to Jane Bryant Quinn, arguably the most visible and most important personal finance journalist in the field today. Like most women who wanted to be journalists in the 1960s, she struggled to overcome gender discrimination in the newsroom. Like Sylvia Porter before her, she […]
Reporting on yourself as a business
Few media publications, including business magazines and newspapers, write about themselves. When I worked at BusinessWeek, we never wrote about McGraw-Hill, our parent company. The Wall Street Journal never writes about the behind-the-scenes business stories that involve parent Dow Jones, such as the fact that its CEO and another executive at the company are married. […]
A new biz magazine
The fact that Conde Nast wants to enter into the business magazine business, which was discussed in a New York Times article this morning, is not surprising when you look at the people behind Conde Nast. This point wasn’t mentioned this morning in the NYT article: Conde Nast is owned by Advance Publications, which is […]
New investigative editor at BusinessWeek
There’s a new job at BusinessWeek, the weekly publication produced by McGraw-Hill. Paul Barrett from the Wall Street Journal has been made assistant managing editor of investigative projects. Previously, investigative stories were handled by a specific department editor and then by higher-ups at the magazine like assistant managing editors. Earlier this year, long-time editor Steve […]
