Should business journalists be criticizing SarbOx
Sarbanes-Oxley, the federal law that requires public companies to be more diligent in disclosing financial and accounting information about the results, has been criticized by many in corporate America, but Reason magazine’s Brian Doherty thinks that business journalists should also be complaining about it. Doherty writes: “Critics in academia and business journalism—and many from the […]
Wall Street Journal TV show on Fox debuts this weekend
Here is a snippet of the release: “The Journal Editorial Report, a production of The Wall Street Journal, will debut on FOX News Channel (FNC) on Saturday, January 21st at 11 PM/ET. The program will also run on Sunday at 6 AM/ET. “Hosted by Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot, the weekly half-hour program features newsmakers […]
A PR person's perspective on posting interviews online
I hate to beat a dead horse, but we have yet to hear from all sides of the issue regarding Overstock.com President Patrick Byrne’s posting on the Internet of his responses to a long list of questions from BusinessWeek e-commerce editor Timothy Mullaney — before the story was published in the magazine or on its […]
How to fix business sections
Jeff Jarvis is a former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He is doing some consulting work for the New York Times Online operations as well. In a long post today […]
Bartiromo critiques her work
CNBC star Maria Bartiromo was in Virginia Beach on Tuesday giving a speech at Regent University. She made several comments about business and personal finance journalism that are interesting to note, according to an article in this morning’s Virginian Pilot: 1. “I’m part of the noiseâ€? that complicates investment choices, Bartiromo acknowledged. The news she […]
Please shoot me if I ever watch this show
The New York Observer is reporting this morning that CNBC’s Jim Cramer is developing a reality television show where people would receive a certain amount of money to invest and the winner would be the one that showed the biggest return on their investment. The Observer writes: “King of Wall Street, as the show is […]
Dow Jones agrees to purchase New England Business Bulletin
Ottaway Newspapers, which is a subsidiary of Dow Jones, has agreed to purchase the New England Business Bulletin, according to this item. I could not find an official release on the transaction on the Dow Jones home page or on PR Newswire. The Business Bulletin is a monthly with 45,000 readers. The item I found […]
Henry Blodget's view of the BW/Overstock online battle
We all know who Henry Blodget is. The disgraced former Wall Street analyst now has a Web site called Internet Outsider where he posts comments about Internet stocks. Blodget took at look at the Overstock.com/BusinessWeek tussle between President Patrick Byrne and e-commerce editor Timothy Mullaney. Here are his decidedly anti-journalist comments: “Well, first, he takes […]
The name "business section" implies conservative coverage
Eric Alterman, author of “What Liberal Media? The Truth about Bias and the News,” believes that the name of the section in which most readers receive their business news implies a conservative bias, according to this story in the Daily Nexus, the student newspaper at UCal-Santa Barbara. The story states: “Alterman also contended that, even […]
Blogs level the business journalism playing field
Mathew Ingram, who in addition to his own blog is also the online business columnist for the Toronto Globe and Mail, had this to say about the whole Overstock/Business Week brouhaha: “As a journalist with feet (or arms) in both the world of traditional media and the world of blogs, I’m well acquainted with the […]
