The most embarrassing thing in business journalism
Some may argue the point, but to me the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to a business reporter is to get beat on a story. It’s even more embarrassing when you get beat on a story that involves reading an SEC filing of a company. Add to the fact that it’s The Wall […]
Why is there no labor section?
Op Ed News has a list of five arguments you can start this summer at a picnic. They were posted this morning, and one of them has to do with the business section: 5. Economics: Crack open a cold one and pose this query: Why isn’t there a labor section to counter the business section […]
Chicago Trib's top magazines dominated by biz
The Chicago Tribune annually publishes its list of the top 50 magazines. Once again, the list is dominated by business glossies, including two of the top three slots. Here are some of the magazines listed: 1. The Economist. In a class by itself as the best English-language newsweekly, with each issue unavoidably reminding readers of […]
Launch of Conde Nast's Portfolio will help competitors
Media Life Magazine staff writer Samantha Melamed writes that despite the fears from other business glossies that Conde Nast Portfolio, a new business magazine that will debut next year, will take away advertising, the launch of a new biz pub means that the sector is vibrant and the new publication will attract new readers and […]
A time bomb waiting to happen?
Former BusinessWeek reporter Gary Weiss, who has covered his fair share of Wall Street scandals and uncovered a number of crooked companies, has a problem with the idea that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is going to invest in the companies that departing St. Louis Post-Dispatch business reporter Christopher Carey is going to write about […]
Conde Nast Portfolio shrewd at playing journalists for coverage
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman notes that the vast amounts of coverage being given the new Conde Nast business magazine has been primarily the result of the glossy playing journalists like a violin — my term, not his — by announcing the name, Portfolio, fully nine months before the first issue will hit newstands. Friedman […]
Financial Times CEO bullish on biz journalism
John Ridding, the new chief executive officer of the Financial Times and FT.com, sent an e-mail to the newspaper’s staff on Monday in an attempt to rally the troops, and he expressed a positive outlook on the future of newspapers — and on business journalism. According to Guardian press correspondent Stephen Brook, the e-mail stated, […]
A fan of NYTimes' biz columnist Joe Nocera
Slate’s Jack Shafer writes this evening about the simplicity behind the writing of New York Times’ business columnist Joseph Nocera. Schafer wrote, “Nocera is no egomaniac, I’d point out. He reaches for the first-person because it allows him an intimacy with his readers. The column is so much a one-on-one conversation over a coffee or […]
Ad Age critic takes swip at NYT's stock charts, new Conde Nast glossy
Advertising Age’s Simon Dumenco takes a shot at both the New York Times’ business section and the new Conde Nast Portfolio, a business magazine slated to appear next year, in his latest column. Dumenco writes, “Would it kill you, New York Times, to admit that your much-hyped ‘Market Gauges’ pages — the successor to the […]
BusinessWeek to add wine column
Robert M. Parker Jr., world-renowned wine critic and publisher of The Wine Advocate, has signed on as a weekly columnist for BusinessWeek, Editor Stephen J. Adler announced today. “Wines of the Weekâ€? will run in the Executive Life section of the magazine and will deliver Parker’s recommendations and descriptive tasting notes along with ratings and […]
