Media ask judge to unseal records in iPhone investigation
Media organizations are asking a San Mateo County Superior Court to unseal records in the criminal investigation into a missing iPhone prototype, reports Jessica Guynn of the Los Angeles Times. Guynn writes, “In a legal brief filed with the court, The Times and other news organizations including the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, CNet and Wired.com, […]
Police investigate lost iPhone
Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh of CNET report that California police are investigating how the prototype iPhone lost in a bar ended up in the possession of the tech site Gizmodo. Sandoval and McCullagh write, “CNET has not been able to confirm whether the investigation is targeting Gizmodo.com, its source who reportedly found the iPhone […]
TV journalist accused of leaking documents to CNET reporter
A Los Angeles broadcast journalist has been accused of giving confidential court documents in a case involving pirated video on YouTube to CNET reporter Greg Sandoval. Caroline McCarthy of CNET reports, “Schapiro, an external counsel for YouTube and its parent company Google, ran through a list of telephone calls and e-mails from last fall that […]
Tech coverage ignores major players
CNET blogger Dave Rosenberg reports about a study from ITDatabase of tech coverage in major business media in the past six months that shows that large companies don’t get their fare share of the coverage. Rosenberg writes, “The eight publications surveyed are: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, The Economist, […]
BNET names new editors, columnists
BNET, the business Web site of CBS Interactive, announced Thursday it has expanded its editorial staff. BNET editor-in-chief Eric Schurenberg named Paul Sloan, formerly senior writer at Fortune, as executive editor of the site, and Christine Lee, formerly the content manager of Yahoo Small Business, as managing editor. The new columnists and bloggers include well-known […]
Business news sites gained traffic in August, yearly data strong
Five business news sites were among the top 30 sites in terms of traffic gained in August, according to data from TNS Media. BusinessWeek magazine saw a 21 percent gain to 5.7 million viewers from July. Its viewership is now up 52 percent for the past year. Only three other sites saw a bigger increase […]
Sloppy online reporting hurts business journalism
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE I’ve always been a big proponent of online business journalism. Some of the best journalism done today comes from sites like Marketwatch.com, TheStreet.com and others. But there’s nothing that bugs me more than sloppy business reporting online because it tells the reader that there wasn’t as much care taken with the […]
CNET acquisition pays off for CBS
Michael Learmonth of Advertising Age takes a look at the acquisition of CNET by CBS one year later and finds that the deal has worked well for both sides. Learmonth writes, “One of the original hypotheses for the deal — that CBS and CNet shared very little audience overlap and, therefore, wouldn’t cannibalize each other […]
Moneywatch.com launches from CBS
Gavin O’Malley from Online Media Daily writes Tuesday about the new business news site Moneywatch.com that was launched this week by CBS. O’Malley writes, “Targeting professionals, the personal finance site is being featured throughout the CBS broadcast, radio and mobile platforms, while its editorial talent will be featured as regular contributors on CBS News shows, […]
Reload your skills at SABEW's annual conference
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold its annual conference in Denver on April 26 through April 28, and the program has a number of skills sessions for business journalists to help them advance their careers. Those sessions include: “The Power of Twitter and other Social Networking” sites to help build your source network and […]
