Donald Trump and the media
Well-known journalist Sydney Schanberg takes on the issue of real estate mogul Donald Trump and his recent libel lawsuit against New York Times’ reporter Timothy O’Brien for allegedly overstating his net worth in his book called Trump Nation. As Schanberg notes, Trump is suing O’Brien and his publisher, Warner Books, for $2.5 billion, saying that […]
LA Times reporter who wrote about union is leaving
According to L.A. Observed, Miriam Pawel applied for an employee buyout and it was accepted. The series on the United Farm Workers ran earlier this year and has been criticized by the union and by others in California, including in an opinion piece on the paper’s editorial page. The paper fears that her departure will […]
Journalists who can move markets
There are three predominant market movers, according to this posting by the CEO of Ralston360, a blog from an advertising and design firm: “There are certain journalists that can move a market. “Jim Cramer of Mad Money can move a stock 30% overnight by making a strong recommendation as he did last Friday with his […]
PR person says fight back by posting interviews
Joan Stewart, who writes the Publicity Hound’s blog, posted a comment today about how to fight bias in the media. She pays particular attention to responding in the same manner as Overstock.com President Patrick Byrne did earlier this month to BusinessWeek e-commerce editor Timothy Mullaney. Stewart writes: “If you’re lucky enough to have a tape-recording […]
Greenspan will be missed by biz journalists
Alan Greenspan, who has been chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank since 1987, will step down from his position next week and be replaced by Ben Bernanke. He will be missed by business and economics writers, noted Eric Heider in a story in Saturday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Heider wrote: “Media savvy and a frequent guest […]
Criticism of Forbes article on blogging
The blogging world has been abuzz the past few days about a recent Forbes article on, what else, the blogging world. The Forbes article in question is “Tapping into the blogosphere” by Tom Taulli, and it was posted on the magazine’s Web site on Wednesday. PR blog expert B.L. Ochman wrote, “Sometimes, comments to posts […]
The media does a lousy job covering the economy
That’s the conclusion of CBS business correspondent Anthony Mason. Not surprisingly, Mason thinks that CBS has done a pretty good job at covering the economy. Mason made this general statement about media coverage of the economy: “Most Americans find economic news impenetrable and it’s our fault. For a long time, it’s been portrayed as an […]
The shortsightedness of cutting newspaper stock listings
I just had a telephone conversation with someone who is doing a lot of thinking about the recent decisions by some major newspapers to cut their stock listings in the business section in an attempt to save money because it decreases the amount of newsprint used by the paper. This person, who shall go nameless […]
Covering Davos
A number of business reporters are in Davos, Switzerland this week covering the World Economic Forum. One of the best places to look for coverage is a blog called “Delving into Davos” being written by reporters from the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times, including Mark Landler, Floyd Norris and Andrew Ross Sorkin. […]
Son of BusinessWeek chief of correspondents dies tragically
I have known Jim Ellis, the chief of correspondents at BusinessWeek, for more than a decade. When I was at the magazine, he was in the Chicago bureau, but he soon came to New York and was considered the heir apparent to Keith Felcyn, who was the chief of correspondents in the early 1990s. Jim’s […]
