Biz reporters and corporate PR people
I spoke for an hour today to a journalism class at Duke University about business reporting. There were the basic questions about whether you could own stocks of companies you write about. (My answer was an emphatic no.) And there was the question about writing commentary about companies you cover from a news standpoint. (Call […]
Feds file charges on insider trading scam using BusinessWeek info
Federal authorities have filed charges against a Merrill Lynch analyst and two Lehman Brothers employees who developed an elaborate insider trading scam that involved using en employee at the printing plant where BusinessWeek is printed every week to get inside information, MarketWatch is reporting. Marketwatch reports, “Authorities also charged Juan Renteria, 20, an employee of […]
Herb Greenberg profiled by San Diego paper
Bruce Bigelow, a business writer for the San Diego Union-Tribune, has a nice profile of MarketWatch columnist Herb Greenberg in this morning’s newspaper. Greenberg is the financial journalist who has been criticized by executives at companies such as Overstock.com recently for using short sellers as sources. Greenberg denies that he has done anything wrong, and […]
Are biz sources being silenced?
Bill Fleckenstein, who runs a hedge fund in Seattle and writes a column for MSN Money, believes that some hedge fund managers are no longer willing to talk on the record to business journalists because of the recent push by some companies to threaten hedge funds with litigation when they are discussed in a negative […]
Inquirer PC columnist ends his run
Reid Goldsborough, who has written a column on personal computers in the Philadelphia Inquirer, has written his last column about the topic in Sunday’s newspaper after exactly 300 columns. He writes that his editors want to devote the space to more business news. Goldsborough writes, “What I’ve tried to do, more than anything else, with […]
Canadian paper editor responds to readers upset about dropped listings
Earlier this week, the London Free Press in Canada dropped mutual fund listings during the week, instead running them only on Saturday. Also earlier this week, the newspaper’s business editor wrote a column about the deluge of phone calls that he had received as a result. Now comes Paul Berton, the paper’s top editor, attempting […]
Biz media goes gaga over Harbard professor
TheDeal.com Executive Editor Yvette Kantrow notes that Lucian Bebchuk, director of Harvard Law School’s corporate governance center, has been getting a lot of glowing coverage in the business news media lately. In the past two years, Bebchuk has written a book and co-authored a paper about executive compensation and how shareholders should get more of […]
Bloomberg TV wins award for GM show
Bloomberg Television won the prestigious Golden Wheel award at ceremonies last night at the Automotive Hall of Fame. It was the first time in recent years that a TV report received the top honor in the International Wheel Awards competition, which honors excellence in automotive journalism and is sponsored by the Detroit Press Club Foundation. […]
Handling stock listings changes
The New York Times business editor, Larry Ingrassia, told Eric Deggans of the St. Petersburg Times that he had received 200 calls on the first day from readers upset about the cut stock listings in the paper. Deggans writes, “When the Chicago Tribune cut its 3 ½ pages of stock tables to one summary page […]
Middle East journalists' view of U.S. biz coverage
I just spent the past hour talking about U.S. business coverage with a group of about 16 journalists from Middle Eastern countries ranging from Morocco to Bahrain to Iraq. The general impression that they have about business news coverage in this country is that it is too soft and not critical enough about businesses. I […]
