Papers create blogs to cover tech
It seems only natural to start a blog to cover the biggest geek fest of the year. At least two papers have started new technology blogs in the first week of the year, using the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as their news peg. The New York Times launched a blog called “Bit” this […]
Business journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders
Atlanta Journal-Constitution public editor Angela Tuck writes, in the wake of this week’s resignation by Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli, that the paper’s coverage has been criticized for being “anti-business,” including in some of its Home Depot stories. Tuck stated, “In October 2005, AJC reporter Matt Kempner and columnist Maria Saporta analyzed the company’s charitable […]
Venture capitalist wants to know where biz journalists will come from
Venture capitalist Paul Kedrosky, who has also done his fair share of writing in business publications, has an interesting post on his “Infectious Greed” blog. Kedrosky wrote, “Business news is newly hot in 2006/2007. Consider that last year CNBC was the only cable news network that grew its audience significantly, with, according to MediaWeek, its […]
New CNBC show to premiere Jan. 24
Business news cable network CNBC said Friday that the first episode of its new show “Business Nation” will air on Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 10 p.m. The new show is billed as a monthly business magazine hosted by correspondent David Faber, and the plan is to include a blend of features, profiles and investigative reports. […]
Cable and Internet pushing business journalism
David Lee Smith of the Motley Fool writes Friday that the expansion of business journalism in recent years has been fueled by cable television and the Internet, and that more competition is coming. Smith wrote, “This is a sector of the news that has been somewhat slow to develop and mature, at least on a […]
Friedman: Cramer is better in print
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman, whose column last year about “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer sparked a bevy of reader e-mails, returns again to Cramer on Friday and notes that his writing in New York magazine is much more palatable. Friedman wrote, “I much prefer Cramer’s Dr. Jekyll incarnation, as the restrained, informative author of […]
CNBC moves "Fast Money" to five days a week
“Fast Money,” the show on business news channel CNBC that features Dylan Ratigan and four Wall Street traders, will now air five days a week instead of its current once-a-week schedule. The show will be based at NASDAQ’s MarketSite studio in Times Square. Ratigan and the traders rang the bell to begin trading at the […]
CNBC to look ahead at '07 on Tuesday
With the daily business newspapers deciding what it would do on Tuesday due to the closing of the stock markets to honor the death of former president Gerald Ford, CNBC says it will have seven hours of live programming taking a look at 2007. The release stated, “Beginning at 9 AM ET, each hour of […]
Where the WSJ is headed
Editor & Publisher is a long piece taking a look at the changes that will occur at The Wall Street Journal next week. Perhaps the most interesting part of the story for business journalists at the paper is near the end, when the discussion turns to staffing levels. Jennifer Saba wrote, “If [publisher Gordon] Crovitz […]
Top 10 biz journalism events for 2006
Yes, I am once again succumbing to the easy temptation of a list, an odious form of journalism that I don’t like. But the people, they seem to like these lists. So here are the top 10 events in business journalism for 2006: 10. The failure of business journalists to accurately report about the holiday […]
