Why Murdoch’s handling of the WSJ is the other News Corp. scandal
Ed Wasserman, a journalism professor at Washington & Lee University, writes for the Miami Herald how changes at The Wall Street Journal since it was acquired by News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch have hurt its reputation. Wasserman writes, “Within the news world, The Journal’s shadow was long. It was admired and imitated. It pioneered styles […]
Media need to point out Google’s ulterior interest in Yahoo deal
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs wishes the business media would be more truthful about Google’s reasons for expressing interest in acquiring Yahoo.
Reuters blogger criticizes Reuters story on Occupy Wall Street
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon is critical of his employer’s story that attempts to make the claim that billionaire investor George Soros is funding the Occupy Wall Street protest. Salmon writes, “The article is particularly problematic from my perspective because I’m incredibly proud of Reuters’s long tradition of impartial journalism. I’m on the opinion side, not […]
ProPublica Pulitzer winners: Media did not understand banking crisis
Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein, two ProPublica staffers who won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year, spoke in New York Tuesday night and argued that the media did not understand the banking crisis, writes Joe Pompeo of Capital New York. Pompeo writes, “But Eisinger didn’t offer a blanket exoneration. “‘The great failure of the press […]
Shorter stories in WSJ means nothing to readers
Felix Salmon of Reuters argues Tuesday that the research from Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review showing that the Wall Street Journal is producing fewer longer stories doesn’t mean much in today’s journalism world. Salmon writes, “If you look at the chart of stories over 1,500 words, it peaked at 800 per year in […]
Occupy Wall Street coverage shows biz journalists don’t represent people
St. Petersburg Times media critic Eric Deggans writes Monday that the coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement by business journalists shows that they have forgotten how to represent the people instead of big-time business. Deggans writes, “Turns out, there is a list of demands developed by some organizers of the protests, which has been […]
Biz media overplays Disney CEO’s departure in 2016
Hal Morris, writing on his GrumpyEditor.com blog, notes that the business press made much to do about the news Friday that Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger plans to step down from the company in 2016, when he turns 65. Morris writes, “That action in The Wall Street Journal, for example, took up almost have […]
How Steve Jobs changed business journalism
New York Times business columnist David Carr writes Thursday about how deceased Apple CEO Steve Jobs impacted business journalism. Carr writes, “Which brings us back to how he changed business journalism — its image and its attractiveness. Because he was a showman, because he made interesting things that consumers cared about, readers began to follow […]
McLean, Fabrikant named Reuters columnists
Well-known business journalists Bethany McLean and Geraldine Fabrikant will join Reuters as columnists, the news service announced Wednesday. McLean is one of the world’s preeminent financial journalists. A math major who started her career as an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs, she wrote articles for Fortune Magazine that hastened the demise of one of the biggest corporate frauds […]
Dallas biz columnist celebrates 60th anniversary at paper
D Magazine’s Glenn Hunter notes that a business columnist at the Dallas Morning News recently celebrated his 60th anniversary at the paper. Hunter writes, “When Robert ‘Bob’ Miller began his journalism career at the Dallas Morning News, they were writing on typewriters and there was cigarette smoke in the newsroom and Harry Truman was president. […]
