Soft coverage of tech from the Geek Fest
I have never been a big fan of the Consumer Electronics Show, and saw it first-hand when it was in Atlanta in the 1990s and I was a business reporter for the Journal-Constitution. It seemed to be a way for the computer and technology companies to get free publicity. That has apparently continued, says William […]
Apple coverage gone soft?
The topic of whether the coverage of Apple Computers being too soft is not a new one. But Arik Hesseldahl, a writer for BusinessWeek Online, is assessing it again in this piece posted this morning. Hesseldahl notes that on Tuesday, AP issued a one sentence NewsAlert about Apple beginning to ship computers with Intel chips […]
Revolutionizing business coverage in Britain
There’s a new newspaper in Britain called City AM for the movers and shakers in the business world, according to this Press Gazette article about editor David Parsley. Parsley is critical of the Financial Times, which is the main financial paper in England and has a strong presence in the United States: “A criticism of […]
Press release masquerading as a WSJ story
That’s the conclusion that Fortune senior writer Devin Leonard reached about the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the change in management at parent Dow Jones & Co. last week. “The newspaper read — and feared — by everybody in corporate America published the equivalent of a press release,” wrote Leonard. He added: “Here’s what you […]
College student in India who wants to be a business journalist
Her name is Puja Jain, and she is currently studying for her master’s in economics. The Hindu, a daily newspaper in India, profiled her in this morning’s edition. “Keeping her career options in mind, she watches the business channels on television and reads business newspapers and magazines,” reads the article. “I don’t understand things like […]
Does the news media make economics coverage negative?
That’s the summary of what the Newsbusters blog is saying about Robert Samuelson’s column in this week’s issue of Newsweek. Samuelson’s column is about five things that could go wrong with the economy in 2006, including the potential for GM to file for bankruptcy court protection. He states, “All this good news is, of course, […]
LA Times series on labor causing a lot of talk
The Los Angeles Times this week has been running a series called “UFW: A Broken Promise” on the migrant farm worker population that is so important to California agriculture and the state’s economy. You can read the series here. The day one story has this as its multi-paragraphed nut: “Today, a Times investigation has found, […]
I couldn't agree more with this blogger's statement
Soo Doh Nim writes for an international news service and is based in New Jersey. He also writes a blog called “The Hack Squad: Journalism, deadlines and writer’s block.” This is a snippet of a posting from Monday, with bolded emphasis added by me: “Good local, national and international news reporting should be about the […]
Business Press Maven criticizes Kann/House/Zannino coverage
The Business Press Maven runs on TheStreet.com. And he takes journalists to task for failing to tell readers the significance of what has happened at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones in the past week: “The Business Press Maven, however, declares the current crop of reporters guilty of thinness and, worse, in the one […]
More on Dow Jones shakeup
You know it’s a big deal in business journalism when Newsweek decides to cover the boardroom shakeup at Dow Jones, the parent of The Wall Street Journal. In the Jan. 16 issue, which is available online, writer Jonathan Darman has a couple of interesting points to make about the departure of CEO Peter Kann and […]
