Be patient with Cramer stock picks
In an interview with the Associated Press, “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer advises his watchers to be patient with the stock picks from his show. Cramer told The Associated Press he repeatedly warns his audience to steer clear of after-hours trading, when he says buyers outnumber sellers, making it easier to get burned. “The takeaway […]
Gillmor: Make stock option scandal a citizen journalism project
World-famous blogger and citizen journalist advocate Dan Gillmor has a great suggestion on his Center for Citizen Media blog. He wants to make the current stock option scandal where executives are receiving stock options back dated to the lowest stock price for their company a nationwide project for citizen journalists. Gillmor suggests that stockholders/citizen journalists/bloggers […]
New Yorker reviews Jim Cramer's "Mad Money"
There is something disconcerting about seeing a review of Jim Cramer’s “Mad Money” television show in the New Yorker. Do people who subscribe to this high-brow magazine actually watch Cramer’s antics on television and read TheStreet.com, where he writes a column? Or don’t they get all of their investment advice from their own personal stock […]
Former FT editor Gowers looks back
Former Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers, who is now in public relations for Lehman Brothers, talked to the Independent about his new job and why he left the financial newspaper at the end of last year. The article notes, “Gowers’s strategic differences with FT owners Pearson revolved around his perceived failing to shore up the […]
WaPo's Jerry Knight to take early retirement offer
The Washington Post’s Jerry Knight, who has been covering Washington business for the past 28 years and writes the “Washington Investing” column on Mondays, has decided to take the company’s buyout offer. His last column appeared in Monday’s paper. Knight says he will use his time to actually invest in local companies that he has […]
Enron shows the myth of adversial press
Los Angeles Times’ columnist Tim Rutten reminds us, with the closing of the Enron trial, that the role of the business press in society failed in the case of the Houston energy company. Rutten writes, “One of the answers has to do with inherent limitations the press often is loath to admit. Today, there are […]
Jeff Kreisler is my new favorite business writer
OK, so Jeff Kreisler is not a business journalist per se. In fact, he’s just a New York-based comedian. But somehow, he has talked TheStreet.com into giving him carte blanche once a week, typically on Saturday or Sunday, to write about the funny stuff that happens in the business world. OK, so maybe it’s not […]
Chronicle's Enron covered excelled
Houston Chronicle reader representative James Campbell is gloating, as are readers, about the paper’s coverage of the recently concluded Enron trial in his Sunday column. Campbell writes, “Leading up to the trial, the Chronicle was criticized by some readers, who believed our stories about Lay and Skilling were soft and self-serving. Deputy managing editor George […]
Business mags have gotten weird, according to Kantrow
TheDeal.com Executive Editor Yvette Kantrow, who writes a weekly column called “Media Maneuvers,” has a fit in her latest about the most recent cover topic of Smart Money magazine, which claims to have discovered some important ways for all of us to stay healthy, not that that’s a business issue. Kantrow writes, “SmartMoney certainly leads […]
Castro continues to attack Forbes
Cuban leader Fidel Castro continued his offensive earlier this week against Forbes magazine, which earlier listed his net worth as $900 million in a ranking of the richest government leaders in the world. The Xinhua news agency reported, “‘They cannot remain quiet. We must make them speak,’ Castro said during a seven-hour program, his second […]
