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 […]
Newspapers slow to embrace the web as a tool
Duluth News Tribune business reporter Peter Passi has an interesting story this morning about how newspaper circulation is declining, but the number of readers reading the paper on the Internet is increasing. He quotes a former newspaper executive as saying that the dropping of printed stock listings, but the use of providing those stock listings […]
N&O readers mad at dropped stock listings
The (Raleigh) News & Observer intentionally made some of its readers made by dropping its stock listings, noted ombudsman Ted Vaden in his Sunday column. (Fair Disclosure: Vaden is a neighbor of mine.) Vaden wrote that some readers stated that they would drop their subscription or be forced to take another paper. He also quoted […]
Shortsighted Cisco coverage
Marek Fuchs, the Business Press Maven for TheStreet.com, criticizes the recent coverage of Cisco, which named CEO John Chambers to the additional role of chairman of the board. Fuchs notes that in the corporate world recently many companies have been separating the two titles between two different executives. But this wasn’t mentioned in the Cisco […]
TheStreet.com reporter on TV
TheStreet.com markets reporter Rob Lenihan writes on his personal blog about his first time on television and how scary it was. Lenihan wrote, “I’m a reporter for TheStreet.com and I’ve been threatening to do a video commentary for the site for several months. “Part of the problem, aside from cowardice, was the structure of my […]
Where has the labor reporting gone?
The Toronto Star’s Antonia Zerbisias wants to know what has happened to labor reporting, specficially in Canada, in a column, in relation to the recent strike that stranded tens of thousands of commuters in the city. Media columnist Zerbisias wrote, “The media have abandoned labour as an exclusive, and expert, beat. “Because we have no […]
Poor economic reporting in WaPo
This blogger has a valid complaint about some recent economics coverage in the Washington Post. He accurately notes that a story in Tuesday’s paper fails to mention the trade-off between interest rates and employment. He wrote, “In an article titled ‘Fed Chief Raises Inflation Concern’, authors Nell Henderson and Brooke A. Masters fail to mention […]
