Columbia Journalism Review ends The Audit
Columbia Journalism Review has decided to pull the plug on The Audit, the online section of the journalism magazine that critiqued the financial press and examined financial media models. The magazine will still cover those topics, however. In an email to Talking Biz News, deputy editor Brent Cunningham wrote: We decided that, while we of […]
Sorkin is too credulous to cover Wall Street
Hamilton Nolan of Gawker writes Tuesday about New York Times and CNBC financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, whom he argues believes what he is told by Wall Streeters. Nolan writes, “The face of credulity in the media is Andrew Ross Sorkin, hardworking New York Times Wall Street reporter and sometime Wall Street shoeshine boy. You […]
MarketWatch.com seeks investing columnist
MarketWatch.com seeks a columnist who can write critically on all things investing – stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, and funds. The successful candidate will give strong and interesting opinions on investment strategies, academic theories and daily market news in an engaging way, free of jargon. Original research, using FactSet and other tools, is important. A flair […]
A PR person’s perspective of the Financial Follies
This past Friday marked my second Financial Follies. The black tie affair took place at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, hosted by the New York Financial Writers’ Association. According to financial media lore, the event has been described as a combination of one’s birthday party, Thanksgiving, and wedding day combined into one magnificent event. […]
The Financial Follies: Like your high school prom
Our anonymous society correspondent attended the 2014 Financial Follies, hosted by the New York Financial Writers’ Association, on Friday night in New York and submitted the following report: Let’s admit it — the Financial Follies — the annual black tie gathering of flacks and hacks in the Marriott Marquis in Times Square — is kind […]
Sunday WSJ was profitable, so why kill it?
The following was written by David Cay Johnston, a well-known business journalist at The New York Times, Reuters and other publications, and published on Talking Biz News with his permission: This announcement killing the profitable and reader-beloved Sunday WSJ is revealing about modern business think and how accounting systems often MIS-inform executives. The Sunday WSJ […]
Cincy paper’s biz columnist leaving for PR job
Josh Pichler, the business columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, is leaving the paper for a public relations job. Chris Wetterich of the Cincinnati Business Courier writes, “Pichler’s departure isn’t related to theshakeup in progress at the region’s largest media organization, where staffers who reapplied for new jobs are expected to find out today whether they received one […]
Wall Street Journal seeks Washington columnist
The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau seeks a columnist to cover economics and economic policy. This columnist will be the lead economics correspondent at The Wall Street Journal. The ability to both break news and to conceive and execute broader feature stories is important, as is the ability to write for both print and online […]
Lake, Rogin hired by Bloomberg View
Eli Lake and Josh Rogin will join the opinion and analysis site Bloomberg View on Nov. 17 as columnists covering national security and international affairs. “In story after story and scoop after scoop, Eli and Josh have made themselves essential reads in the world of foreign policy and national security,” said David Shipley, the senior […]
Magazine covers as an investment signal
Barry Ritholtz writes for Bloomberg View about how magazine covers are often a signal for investors. Ritholtz writes, “As an example, consider the past 30 years of Time magazine covers as they relate to the stock market. When Time named Amazon.com chief Jeff Bezos as Person of the Year in December 1999 it marked the […]
