Frankie Flack: Who’s spinning now?
This morning, the fine folks at the Pew Research Center put up a blog post that should serve as red meat to every ink-stained wretch who likes to rail against the idea that he’s battling poverty while us flacks are living like kings. The post is titled “The growing pay gap between journalism and public […]
WSJ Europe seeks editorial page editor
The Wall Street Journal Europe is seeking a London-based editorial page editor. Job duties: Write editorials on European economic and political affairs that reflect the Journal editorial page’s free-market philosophy and that are tailored for the global audience of the Journal’s three print editions and website. In coordination with editors in New York and Hong […]
Yahoo Finance adding contributors
Phil Pearman, interactive editor for Yahoo Finance, posted the following announcement on Wednesday: Today, we are pleased to announce the launch of Yahoo Finance Contributors – a finance-focused and socially driven network where expert contributors will regularly create and share premium original content. We are opening up the Yahoo Finance platform to a select group […]
A common sense approach to business reporting
John Ingle, the business editor of the Wichita Falls Times Record News in Wichita Falls, Texas, writes about how he distinguishes his columns from his news stories. Ingle writes, “I have earned an extensive and distinguished fellowship from the School of Hard Knocks. I’ve survived two events in life that some say are financially crippling: […]
Frankie Flack: My releases are the new newswire
My name might say “flack,” but the reality is that I’m in the information-delivery game. Some might even say I’m in the news business. A bastardized, corporate version of the news business, but the news business nonetheless. I wake up every morning interested in getting relevant news to people who need that information. Just like […]
NYT’s Sorkin helps companies come across as victims
Jim Newell of Salon writes that New York Times business columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin is helping companies moving overseas to avoid U.S. taxes look like victims. Newell writes, “Here we have an awful human being who just got finished cackling and slappin’ high fives with board members and shareholders about how they’ve slashed their tax […]
Departing WSJ columnist had ’em schnookered
Al Lewis, a columnist whose work appears in The Wall Street Journal, said goodbye to his readers on Sunday as he is becoming editor of the South Florida Business Journal. Lewis writes, “Many other readers, I know, will miss me. Your emails bury me in way too much adulation, but it has been much appreciated. […]
Why CNBC is in trouble
Brian Lund writes for DailyInvestor.com about the issues facing CNBC. Lund writes, “CNBC was never really a useful tool for the retail investor, but now it occupies an awkward space where it’s neither fast enough to compete with social media, nor deep enough (nor accountable enough) to compete with long-form digital content, and not accessible […]
Walmart takes on NYTimes columnist
Jason Abbruzzese of Mashable writes that Walmart is in a tiff with New York Times columnist Timothy Egan about a column he wrote regarding its pay scale. Abbruzzese writes, “The response, which can be found in its entirety below, takes issue with some of the factual assertions of Egan’s column, including how much the average […]
Frankie Flack: Time to start credentialing journalists
This isn’t the right time to be making this argument, what with the absolutely asinine blackballing of SCOTUSblog from the Senate press gallery, but it has to be said: it’s time to start credentialing journalists. I know, I know: that’s the kind of statement that make the guardians of New Journalism — the Jeff Jarvis […]
