CNBC hires staff to prepare for Web site relaunch
Business news cable channel CNBC has hired six people to work on its website, which will relaunch on Dec. 4. CNBC.com is currently part of MSNBC.com. “We’ve recruited all-stars from across the industry to create a ‘game-changing’ site that perfectly complements our worldwide television network while offering a breadth and depth of business news coverage […]
WSJ reporters to stop appearing on CNBC in labor dispute
Wall Street Journal reporters have said that they will stop appearing on CNBC in unpaid appearances during a dispute over new contract talks with parent company Dow Jones, according to an Associated Press story. The AP story stated, “E.S. Browning, the chairman of the union’s bargaining committee and a financial markets reporter, said the union […]
Cavuto remembers early days at Fox
Fox News business anchor Neil Cavuto is hosting his show from Detroit as part of the cable network’s tour of the country to celebrate its 10th anniversary, and in an interview with the Detroit Free Press, he recounted what it was like to leave CNBC for Fox in 1996. Julie Hinds wrote, “Asked about the […]
CNBC Africa goes live in May 2007, will eventually go public
CNBC Africa will replace CNBC Europe in South Africa, according to this report. In addition, the company, which is 30 percent owned by the government, is planning an initial public offering within the next three years. Dikatso Mametse wrote, “The new channel will blend in local and international economic news and will have bureaus in […]
Mercury News names two reporters to be columnists
The San Jose Mercury News has named reporters Dean Takahashi and Michelle Quinn as their newest business columnists, according to a short item in Monday’s paper. The item stated, “By naming these two veteran Mercury News staff writers as columnists, we add unique and insightful coverage of Silicon Valley. “Takahashi’s ‘Tech Talk’ will appear Mondays […]
Fine: The money is there for another biz channel
BusinessWeek media writer Jon Fine writes on his blog that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has been bullish about the Fox Business News channel that is expected to launch next year for several years despite the fact that Roger Ailes, the executive who once ran CNBC and would be in charge of the channel, has […]
Did you get a column out of it?
Albany Times-Union business editor Marlene Kennedy attended the SABEW fall conference in New York last week, and on her way back home, she called her husband, who asked the dreaded question every columnist doesn’t want to hear. She wrote, “My husband is asking that annoying question again. He knows it’s tough pulling off a weekly […]
New York biz journalists a world apart from the rest of us
Don Mecoy, a business reporter for the Oklahoman, wrote Wednesday about his trip to New York last week for the Society of American Business and Editors fall conference. Mecoy came away with the belief that business journalism in New York is much different than what he and other business journalists around the country practice because […]
"Sixty Minutes" shows once again why it's the best biz journalism on TV
Earlier this week, the CBS show “60 Minutes” received nine nominations for this year’s annual Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting. That’s the most nominations for any show on television, and more than entire business news networks such as CNBC. It’s also more than 25 percent of the 33 nominations. Among the “60 Minutes” […]
GE CEO meets with CNBC employees
General Electric Co. CEO Jeffrey Immelt met Wednesday with employees of subsidiary CNBC, the business news cable network, and told them he was looking forward to the competition with the Fox Business News channel next year, according to a Hollywood Reporter story. The meeting, Immelt’s first with CNBC employees in more than a year, also […]
