Friedman: Jim Cramer has become an embarrassment
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman called out “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer, calling him an embarrassment. Friedman says he has no grudge against Friedman, and that CNBC probably hates him complaining, but the time has come to speak out. Cramer was once a distraction from the typical business journalism seen on TV, but now, wrote, […]
The ethics of ShareSleuth.com
BusinessWeek Online reporter Marc Hogan takes a hard look at ShareSleuth.com, the new investigative business journalism web site being started by former St. Louis Post-Dispatch business reporter Christopher Carey and being funded by billionaire Mark Cuban. The ethics of the web site, which is not yet up and running but has generated interest this week […]
Don't drink lattes while reading the business section
TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow notes in her most-recent “Media Maneuvers” column the recent spate of coverage in business sections about how kicking the daily latte habit can help people save money. Kantrow wrote, “Admonishments to kick the latte habit have recently popped up in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Oregonian. In […]
Observations from the Conde Nast Portfolio lunch
Conde Nast Portfolio, the new business glossy slated to debut next year, held a lunch on Thursday in New York with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and FishbowlNY was there to observe and take notes. Some key points, according to its posting, were: — Big advertisers like Fed Ex, Johnny Walker and others — are interested […]
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 […]
