Why Business Insider is doing so well
John Carney of CNBC.com writes about why the Business Insider site, where he once worked, has been so successful. Carney writes, “Business Insider is an internally competitive place to work. The editors compete with each other on who can get the best stories and most pageviews. You hear them talking smack to each other in the […]
Business Insider’s business plan for growth
Ryan McCarthy writes for Reuters.com about Business Insider’s strategy in the wake of its announcement Thursday that it had secured $7 million in additional funding. McCarthy writes, “None of this is intended to say Business Insider doesn’t do some very smart web journalism. Joe Weisenthal, in particular, appears to work inhuman hours and is one […]
How Bloomberg and Reuters are changing journalism
Peter Osnos of The Atlantic writes about how financial news services Bloomberg and Reuters are causing big changes in journalism. Osnos writes, “Because Bloomberg is privately owned, it is hard to know just how profitable it is, but every indication is that it has come through the prolonged financial crisis since 2008 without any meaningful […]
A look at Reuters’ commentary efforts
Dylan Byars of Adweek interviewed James Ledbetter, who is the op-ed editor at Reuters, about the wire service’s efforts to beef up its commentary offerings. Here is an excerpt: News organizations are increasingly using columnists to draw in readers—from Bloomberg View to the Times’ expansion of its Week in Review section. Why is that happening? […]
Defending Mark Zandi’s use by business journalists
Adam Davidson of National Public Radio defends the use of Moody’s economist Mark Zandi by business journalists in the wake of Columbia Journalism Review‘s Ryan Chittum commenting that he’s been quoted an awful lot in the media this year. Davidson writes, “He does one of the most widely followed economic forecasts. That forces him to […]
Conflicts of interest and business journalism
Gordon Crovitz, the former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, writes in Monday’s Journal about conflicts of interest in the wake of the brouhaha over whether TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington can invest in startups and still write about them for the tech news site. Crovitz writes, “Put another way, some of the smartest venture capitalists […]
Business media overuses Moody’s Zandi
Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review writes Friday that business journalists call on Moody’s economist Mark Zandi too much and need to broaden their source lists. Chittum writes, “Who’s Mark Zandi? He’s the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, a Keynesian McCain adviser back in 2008 who supports the Obama stimulus, and a quote machine […]
Shaping how modern journalism is practiced
Lawrence Armour reviews for Fortune the book “Newspaperman: Inside the News Business at The Wall Street Journal” coming out by former Wall Street Journal managing editor and eventual Dow Jones & Co. CEO Warren Phillips about the newspaper and company’s growth. Armour writes, “To his credit, Phillips also covers some of Dow Jones’ more celebrated […]
Reuters Breakingviews content to appear in Toronto paper
Reuters Breakingviews has launched a daily column in The Toronto Globe and Mail. The column will feature up to two views from the Reuters Breakingviews team on the Globe Investor page of The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business section and will also be available on the paper’s website. The Globe and Mail secured exclusive […]
Freedman’s departure from WSJ is a big blow
Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review writes Wednesday that the departure of page one editor Alix Freedman from The Wall Street Journal is a major blow to the paper. Starkman writes, “Freedman is best known for her Pulitzer-winning series on the tobacco industry, the highlights of which can be read here. The series used […]
