Warren Phillips and the WSJ editorial page
Robert W. Merry writes for The American Conservative about how former Dow Jones & Co. CEO Warren Phillips, who died last week at the age of 92, influenced The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page...
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Bloomberg’s Ovide named finalist in columnist competition
Shira Ovide of Bloomberg Opinion has been named a finalist in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual competition. Ovide is a finalist in the print publication over 50,000 circulation category. Ovide is a...
Business Insider/Insider names Bryan its new commentary editor
Nicholas Carlson, the global editor in chief of Business Insider and Insider, sent out the following announcement on Thursday: Team! Some exciting news. After several years of elevating Business Insider and INSIDER with his...
Reuters Breakingviews seeks a columnist
Reuters Breakingviews is looking for a talented, original thinker to join our team of columnists covering U.S. companies, economics and financial markets. We’re looking for a journalist with good ideas, a collegial approach, a...
Fed reporters need to inject more disbelief into their questioning
John Tamny, a Forbes.com contributor, writes that reporters covering the Federal Reserve Board need to be more skeptical of central bankers. Tamny writes, “Something about ‘economist,’ ‘Ph.D.’ and ‘central banker’ causes reporters to shrink...
Toronto Star hires Scoffield to write column about economic policy
The Toronto Star has hired Canadian Press Ottawa bureau chief Heather Scoffield to write a column about economic policy. Scoffield has been at Canadian Press for nearly a decade and the bureau chief since June 2013....
Indianapolis Star drops two business columnists
The Indianapolis Star has decided to stop running columns by personal finance journalist Peter Dunn and Michael Hicks, an economics professor at Ball State, as part of spending cuts that include layoffs, reports Hayleigh Colombo of the...
Commentary: Business journalism is screwed if CEOs can deny they talked
I fear for the future of business journalism if chief executive officers such as Les Moonves can deny that they talked to reporters when the facts appear to show that they did. And the...
How Kara Swisher uses Twitter to formulate columns
Recode cofounder Kara Swisher talked with Ezra Klein about journalism, and one of the topics she discussed was how she uses Twitter to formulae columns. Swisher said: I knew the stuff. It was stuff...
Should business journalism only focus on investment opportunities?
Freelance business journalist Karen K. Ho talked with Bloomberg News reporter Jordyn Holman, who covers gender, race and class in the business world, and Columbia University professor Bill Grueskin about how a lot of...
