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. […]
Tech journalists and the Murdoch hearings
Dan Mitchell of SFWeekly wonders why many tech and business journalists are spending so much time covering the News Corp. phone hacking hearings in England. Mitchell writes, “I’ll give media reporters a pass, I suppose (and yet, even there, what’s the point?). But why are general business columnists and bloggers, technology journalists, and U.S. political […]
Don’t give up on the WSJ just yet
Ryan Chittum of Columbia Journalism Review writes Monday that comparing The Wall Street Journal to Fox News, which is also owned by News Corp., is simply unfair. Chittum was responding to a column in Saturday’s New York Times by Joe Nocera. Chittum writes, “But let’s be realistic here, it’s almost impossible to cover yourself. Does […]
The WSJ’s self-defense is twisted
Gregg Easterbrook writes for Reuters that the editorial in Monday’s Wall Street Journal defending itself and its parent company in the phone hacking scandal falls flat. Easterbrook writes, “First, casually the Journal acknowledges the scandal’s initial charge is true, referring to ‘the phone-hacking years ago at a British corner of News Corp.’ Just last week, […]
The problem with business news books
Bryan Burrough, the author of “Barbarians at the Gate” who is now a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, writes for The New York Times on Saturday about the problem with many business books. Burrough writes, “A lot of business books I see are written by consultants and others who I suspect seek to use the […]
The Fox-ification of The Wall Street Journal
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera writes Saturday that it took News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch only three-and-a-half years to make The Wall Street Journal less aggressive and objective in its coverage. Nocera writes, “Along with the transformation of a great paper into a mediocre one came a change that was both more subtle and […]
Biz reporting can be hazardous
Lauren Boyer, a business reporter at the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania, has an interesting take on the hazards of business journalism. Boyer writes, “In the past six months, I’ve decided that business reporting is super dangerous. “Sure, we’re not construction workers, police or tight-rope walkers. But we are paid to be curious, and curiosity […]
Biz media fails to provide Icahn context
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs comments about how the business media doesn’t mention corporate raider Carl Icahn’s mixed record of investing in companies.
