Abysmal coverage of market turmoil

Michael Hlinka, who reports on business issues of the day for CBC’s “Metro Morning,” talked with Lauren McKeon of the Canadian Journalism Project about the abysmal coverage of the latest installment of the U.S. debt crisis, political bias in business reporting, and the questions journalists are missing. Here is an excerpt: J-Source: Now, there are […]

Biz journalism pundits decry “Chicken Little” approach to recent coverage

Joe Strupp of Media Matters for America writes that some business journalism experts believe that the media presented an overly pessimistic scenario in the wake of the Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. government. Strupp writes, “‘It is a little bit of Chicken Little – ‘the sky is falling’,’ declared Marty Steffens, chair in […]

Forbes’ journalism on MBA rankings is lacking

John Byrne, the editor in chief of Poets&Quants, a site that covers business schools, writes Friday that Forbes recent release of its MBA school rankings was shoddy journalism. Byrne, who once oversaw BusinessWeek’s business school rankings, writes, “The main story describing the results of the ranking is a poorly written and poorly organized article, something […]

A blast from the past

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Talking Biz News is operating this week from Syracuse University, where it is perusing the papers of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster, a two-time Pulitzer winner. We’ve run across a curious document in box eight — a clipping from the Charlotte Observer newspaper dated April 19, 1970. The byline […]

Lack of biz coverage on California’s South Coast

Ray Estrada, former managing editor of the Pacific Coast Business Journal, writes for the Santa Barbara Independent about the slim business coverage in the market. Estrada writes, “During my reporting over the past five years, South Coast business owners have often complained to me that they suffer from lack of financial coverage because no publication […]

Business has improved at WSJ under Murdoch

Rick Edmonds of The Poynter Institute writes Thursday about how The Wall Street Journal‘s financial performance has improved since being acquired by News Corp. Edmonds writes, “For another opinion, I asked a Journal veteran who has written or edited dozens of those big, wide-ranging stories over the past two decades. And I got a surprisingly upbeat response. […]

How the WSJ opinion page has defended its owner

Max Abelson of Bloomberg News writes that there have been five opinion pieces published so far this week in The Wall Street Journal defending News Corp., its parent. Abelson writes, “Byron Calame, who joined the Wall Street Journal in September 1965 and was deputy managing editor when he retired from the newspaper in 2004, said […]

Traditional journalism critical to understanding debt issue

Although social media seem to dominate conversations about the future of journalism, the current debt-ceiling impasse underscores the value and importance of traditional journalism, according to Pamela Luecke, a journalism professor at Washington and Lee University. “I don’t mean to dismiss the power and potential of new forms of journalism,” said Luecke, the Donald W. […]