Does business journalism attract the best minds today?
Willy Stern, a former writer for Forbes, BusinessWeek and other publications, writes in the Nashville Scene how the journalism business has changed, and he argues that the most important change has been in the talent in the newsroom. Stern writes, “We journalists are an I.Q.-driven profession. In business school terms, our primary source of capital […]
Deadline Club winners dominated by biz journalism
Although there is two categories for business journalism, the winners of many of the other categories for the Deadline Club contest, organized by the New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, were business journalists or stories about how business is affecting society. Ellen Schultz of the Wall Street Journal, for example, won in […]
The BofA story that just won't die
TheDeal.com Executive Editor Yvette Kantrow notes that a recent BusinessWeek story on how Bank of America wants to build an investment banking business sounds awfully familiar. Last year, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo posed the same question to BofA CEO Ken Lewis. In 2003, both AFX and Reuters wrote the story. In 1999, it was American Banker […]
The future of mass communication?
Ken Yarmosh has an interesting comment on the future of blogging and the Internet on the TCS Daily this morning, and he gives a plug to the BusinessWeek blog written by Steve Baker and Heater Green. Yarmoush writes, “More and more traditional print publications are getting their writers to blog. Essentially, these writer/bloggers act as […]
Requiring an economics degree
Harvard University economics professor Greg Mankiw, as well as Cal-Berkeley’s Brad DeLong, have been blogging in the past 24 hours about how to make business and economics journalism better. Here is Mankiw’s solution: “Here’s my radical suggestion to the editors of the world: Require all your economics reporters to have an undergraduate degree in economics. […]
Fast Company getting some help
MarketWatch media columnist Jon Friedman, continuing his weekly look at the business magazine industry, says that Fast Company magazine has overcome the loss of its top editor, John Byrne, who many feel left it abruptly last year to return to BusinessWeek. New editor Mark Vamos, who incidently worked with Byrne at BusinessWeek, has kept things […]
Criticizing biz section headlines on gas
Kevin Whitted, writing on BlogHouston.net, criticizes the headline writers for the Houston Chronicle’s business section for their use of the word “gas” instead of being more specific. Whitted writes, “Here are some headlines from recent stories: “Consumers keep buying despite gasoline prices: Warm weather, late Easter help many retailers “Texas gas prices drop slightly after […]
Myron Kandel on business journalism
I had the opportunity to speak this morning to Myron Kandel by telephone. Kandel is the founding financial editor of CNN News, and he was formerly a business reporter for the New York Times and business editor of the Washington Star, New York Herald-Tribune and New York Post. He has been a past president, twice, […]
NY Post biz section is "out" for the summer
Marketwatch’s Richard Weidner writes about what is “in” and what is “out” for the summer for the typical Wall Street person. The New York Post business section is among the outs. Weidner writes, “Where’s all the scoops? The gossip? The Grasso-meter? Though it still has its moments — Wednesday’s scoop on Cendant Corp.’s travel business, […]
The unnerving Klebnikov verdict
Richard Behar of Forbes writes about the recent verdict in Russia in the death of Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov. Three men on trial for kiling him were found not guilty. Behar writes, “If the verdict hasn’t exactly created shockwaves, that’s because few people know the details. The Klebnikov trial was closed to the press and […]
