Reuters Breakingviews hires Gandel as Wall Street columnist
Reuters Breakingviews has hired Stephen Gandel as its Wall Street columnist. Gandel has been the U.S. banking correspondent at the Financial Times for the past two years. He previously worked at The New York Times as the U.S.-based news editor of DealBook, the Times’ daily business newsletter. He was also a senior reporter for CBS News and […]
The need for working-class journalists covering the economy
Alissa Quart, executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, writes in Columbia Journalism Review about the need for journalists with lower socio-economic status covering economic issues. Quart writes, “What would that media look like? It would be one where economic reporters are embedded in blue-collar communities and neighborhoods rather than financial districts, and source […]
Vance on what’s wrong with tech coverage
Mark Yarm of Depth Perception interviewed former Bloomberg News journalist Ashlee Vance — who recently launched his own operation called Core Memory — about what he sees as the main problem with technology coverage. Here is an excerpt: When Semafor covered the launch of Core Memory, you told Ben Smith, “A lot of what I read in the mainstream […]
How the media are missing the point on deflation
Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research writes about how the business media is misinterpreting the impact of deflation on the economy. Baker writes, “This simple point often eludes people who write about the economy, as was the case with this Washington Post editorial on China’s economic problems. The piece correctly noted that China’s official […]
Columnist Krugman on why he left NY Times
New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman says he left the paper because it was ending his newsletter, reports Charles Kaiser of Columbia Journalism Review. Kaiser writes, “Kingsbury said it was ‘patently untrue’ that Krugman’s newsletter had been killed, although it stopped appearing last October. She emailed him on September 30 to urge him to stay at the paper, […]
FT seeks an executive opinion editor
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, globally recognised for its authority, integrity and accuracy, with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide. At the FT, curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Here, you’re given the chance to reach millions, create work that matters and deliver impartial journalism in […]
Is this the end of CoinDesk as we know it?
Former CoinDesk editorial staffer Michael McSweeney writes about the recent happenings at the cryptocurrency news site, where the owner ordered the removal of a story and fired three top editors. McSweeney writes, “Yanking a rather inoffensive piece of event journalism at the apparent behest of a major crypto business interest is an affront to all the hard […]
How a biz magazine is dealing with politically charged times
David Mildenberg, the editor in chief of Business North Carolina, writes about how the publication is handling coverage during these politically charged times. Mildenberg writes, “Bottom line, this year fulfilled expectations that anger and division would dominate news and society, spreading negativity all around. “So how is your statewide business magazine supposed to respond in […]
Let’s stop covering everything about Zuckerberg, Altman and Musk
Public relations executive Ed Zitron argues that the business media is doing a disserve to society by covering everything it can about technology executives Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Zitron writes, “The reason that Elon Musk is able to lie and get away with it is that a far-too-large chunk of the press seems dedicated […]
The problems in covering Trump’s economics proposals
Jem Bartholomew of Columbia Journalism Review writes about the mistakes being made in the media covering former President Donald Trump’s economics proposals. Bartholomew writes, “So how is the media communicating what Trump’s economic policies would mean for the country? As I see it, it’s going wrong in two ways. First, journalists are ‘sanewashing’ Trump’s senselessness, as […]
