LA Times and Chicago Trib considering cutting stock listings
The story was in the Wall Street Journal this morning. You can read it here. This does not surprise me. Many newspapers have cut their stock listings in the past few years, and some papers only run the stocks that are widely held in their area. But the big metropolitan papers have always run a […]
NY Review of Books criticizes business journalism
In the Dec. 15, 2005 issue of the New York Review of Books, which is now available online, there is a commentary by Michael Massing called The Press: The Enemy Within. The thesis of the commentary is that much of the media’s problems are due to their own problems. When it comes to business journalism, […]
When was this written?
OK, in what decade was the following written? I am deleting the dates to make it harder. Answer is below. “Newspaper managements took their cue and enlarged space allotments to finance and business news. Under stress of competition, yet mostly because the readership desired it, the stock and bond tables were expanded. Today they are […]
Energy coverage — are we being aggressive?
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, then you know I am currently reading The Empty Tank, which argues that the oil and gas industry have been feeding the general public a lie about how much energy reserves there are in the country. I happen to have an old college drinking buddy who went […]
Maria's column in BusinessWeek
If you haven’t seen it yet, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, who became famous for her reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, now has a twice-weekly column in BusinessWeek. Apparently this does not conflict with her primary employer’s relationship with The Wall Street Journal. The Money Honey’s initial column, which is called “Face […]
Business news criticism from a law professor
Stephen Bainbridge is a law professor at UCLA who has his own blog. Doing a Web search looking for criticism of how the media has covered the oil and gas industry, I ran across this entry from his blog, which is more than a year old, but still very apropos to what is going on […]
The Empty Tank takes a shot at business journalists
It only took until page six of The Empty Tank, the book I mentioned on Sunday, for the author to take a shot at business journalists for downplaying the problems with the supply of oil and gas on the planet. “Most business journalists” are lumped together with “almost all oil companies, governments and their agencies, […]
Who we are and where did we come from?
I received in the mail today a monograph from a professor in Spain with whom I have been corresponding with in the past several months. The title of the monograph is “Economic and Financial Press: From the Beginnings to the First Oil Crisis,” and it is written by Angel Arrese, a professor at the University […]
Interesting conversations
I’ve had three interesting conversations and/or contacts related to business journalism in the past 24 hours that I thought I would pass along for their interest: 1. I was contacted by the CFO of a private company in Connecticut, who had gotten my name from a journalism professor at Quinnipiac University. Seems this CFO is […]
Expanding SABEW membership?
One of the things that I have been wondering about in relation to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers is how to keep this fine organization growing. And it seems as if SABEW has yet to tap the vast potential of membership within business-related magazines and with the weekly business newspapers that are […]
