Marketwatch.com names new columnist
Marketwatch.com editor in chief Glenn Hall sent out the following announcement: I’m excited to announce that we are bringing on a new columnist with deep expertise in data analysis and investing strategies. Philip van Doorn has a track record of delivering market-moving analysis as a senior analyst at TheStreet.com and TheStreet Ratings since 2007. Prior […]
Bloomberg View seeks editor in Washington
Bloomberg View is looking for an experienced editor in Washington DC for its QuickTake team to produce crisp, context-first backgrounders on topics in the news. The editor will work with Bloomberg News reporters and editors worldwide to identify topics readers struggle to understand and then to create appealing, sophisticated explainers dense with information and fun […]
Journalism and the CNBC effect
Steve Waldman of Washington Monthly reviews Dean Starkman‘s book “The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism.” Waldman writes, “Starkman spends most of his time analyzing the output of newspapers and magazines, and while he mocks CNBC, he largely ignores network and local TV news (still the sources of […]
Crain’s Chicago hires political columnist Miller
Rich Miller, a well-known political columnist in Chicago, has been hired by Crain’s Chicago Business to write a regular column, reports Robert Feder. Feder writes, “Starting Friday, Miller’s column will appear twice monthly on chicagobusiness.com and eventually will be seen in Crain’s weekly print publication as well. “The move marks a return to Chicago media […]
Snark prevalent in business journalism on TV
Doug Kass of TheStreet.com writes about why many of those who appear on business journalism television shows talk snark instead of facts. Kass writes, “The fact is that snark (a combination of snide and remark) and opinion far too often envelop the business media instead of facts and figures. Equally infuriating is the confidence of […]
The need to explain complex topics
Michael Casey, a senior columnist for The Wall Street Journal, writes for the Committee to Protect Journalists about the need for business journalists to do a better job of explaining complex financial topics to readers. Casey writes, “To be fair, those on the losing side of Wall Street’s profit-driven pre-crisis trade mostly failed to exploit new […]
Did online biz reporters become watchdogs?
David Dayen of The American Prospect reviews Dean Starkman‘s book “The Watchdog that Didn’t Bark” about business news coverage during the financial crisis and wonders whether online journalists acted as watchdogs when the mainstream media didn’t. Dayen writes, “It’s for this reason that Starkman disappoints when talking about online journalism. While he praises blogs like […]
Has the business news pendulum swung?
Josh Brown, who writes The Reformed Broker blog, wonders whether the business news media is now too much on the lookout for a scandal. Brown writes, “The premise is that with more middle class investors crowding into the stock markets during the 90′s and an explosion in demand for investing stories, the types of investigative […]
The need for better local economic news
David Lieberman, the executive editor for Deadline.com, writes about the need for local media to improve their business and economics coverage. His essay won the American Institute for Economic Research’s Women’s Economic Roundtable (WERT) Business Journalism Prize. The prize awards $2,000 to the best essay on an economic or financial topic written by a current […]
What has become of business journalism?
Hamza Shaban reviews for The New Yorker the book “The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark” by Columbia Journalism Review‘s Dean Starkman. Shaban writes, “Business reporters are supposed to make the complex worlds of finance and commerce intelligible to non-experts. But business journalism generally failed to predict the looming credit collapse, although a few reporters warned of […]
