The press: Liberal in thought, conservative in practice
That’s what Elizabeth Bauchner, editor and publisher of the Ithaca Community News, states, and she uses as an example business coverage. Bauchner writes: “One of my main motivating factors for publishing ICN is I’ve worked for newspapers and have been frustrated by the limitations imposed on me by editors and publishers. The press is liberal […]
What reporters will cover the Enron trial?
When there is a big trial, the big names of the media show up. Geraldo Rivera. Nancy Grace. Think of the throng of reporters at the O.J. Simpson trial. That’s not likely to happen for the Enron trial, says Claudia Feldman of the Houston Chronicle. The business reporters get this assignment. She writes: “Many of […]
Earnings stories and college students
I threw my Business Reporting class into the fire, assigning them today as their first writing assignment of the semester to write 10 paragraphs on the earnings of a large publicly traded company. I gave them the press release and we spent the bulk of the class time talking about how to read an income […]
BusinessWeek has decline in advertising
In McGraw-Hill’s earnings release out today, there was this item about advertising in BusinessWeek, its flagship publication: “Advertising pages at BusinessWeek declined 18.8% in the fourth quarter and 12.8% for the year, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. For revenue recognition, there were 50 issues in 2005 compared to 51 in 2004.” That’s not a […]
Unclutter the screen on business networks
Newsbusters.org, which says it is for “exposing and combatting liberal media bias, takes on both the perceived liberal business news network and the perceived conservative business news channel in this critique about cluttered screens on television: “CNBC managed to be even more cluttered. There were, #1 Stock reports streaming across the top of the screen. […]
Biz journalist's relationship with Welch leads to column
John Byrne, who left Fast Company as editor last year to return to BusinessWeek as executive editor, has written books with former General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch in the past and his journalism has focused on management issues. So it was Welch’s relationship with Byrne, according to this item in Women’s Wear Daily, that […]
Criticism of Fox News' coverage of the Ford layoffs
News Hounds, a web site that is devoted to analyzing the coverage on Fox News, posted a critique of Neil Cavuto’s coverage of the Ford Motor Co. announcement yesterday that it was closing plants and laying off 30,000 workers. News Hounds wrote: “Six minutes into Fox’s “premiere business news” program, Your World w/Neil Cavuto, Fox […]
Business journalism: At a crossroads?
I had an interesting conversation with Herb Greenberg, the California-based columnist for Marketwatch.com, about an issue that was recently posted on Talking Biz News. And he made an interesting side comment that has stuck in my mind since I hung up the phone. What Greenberg, formerly of TheStreet.com and of the San Francisco daily, said […]
Wal-Mart and the business media
Charles Fishman, a senior editor at Fast Company and a Loeb Award winner in 2005, is speaking to my Business and the Media class on Thursday. He has a new book out called “The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works–and How It’s Transforming the American Economy.” The book originated from this […]
Loren Steffy slams unethical journalists
Houston Chronicle business columnist Loren Steffy wrote the column this morning that probably a lot of columnists should be writing. His message: I am not for sale. Steffy (Disclosure: I know Steffy. We worked together at Bloomberg. Last summer at SABEW in Seattle, we had a few beers.) was responding to the recent spate of […]
