Taking a trip paid for by company that you’re reporting about`
Felix Salmon of Reuters doesn’t like that Business Insider’s Dan Frommer has taken a trip to Spain sponsored by Samsung so that he can report on Samsung’s products. Salmon writes, “For one thing, Frommer’s not just scrounging up whatever’s necessary to get him to the conference and report. He’s was flown over ‘in posh business […]
Taking a trip paid for by company that you're reporting about`
Felix Salmon of Reuters doesn’t like that Business Insider’s Dan Frommer has taken a trip to Spain sponsored by Samsung so that he can report on Samsung’s products. Salmon writes, “For one thing, Frommer’s not just scrounging up whatever’s necessary to get him to the conference and report. He’s was flown over ‘in posh business […]
Translating corporate statements into journalism
Robert MacMillan, an editor at Reuters, writes Tuesday about the process of translating corporate statements into useful English that can be used in business news stories while he visits the wire service’s Bangalore, India bureau. MacMillan writes, “The easiest way to make that pain vanish is to accept what the companies say. We’re working people; […]
The need to be more critical in business journalism
Columbia University professor Anya Schiffrin, who recently edited the book “Bad News: How America’s Business Press Missed the Story of the Century,” writes for Reuters about how she recently reviewed early business journalism and how it compares to current business reporting. Schiffrin writes, “Few today would accept the vagaries and obvious imprecision of those centuries-old […]
Lohan trumps oil tanker story
Hal Morris, writing on his Grumpy Editor blog, notes that many media published more coverage of troubled actress Lindsay Lohan going to court than the capture by pirates of a U.S.-bound supertanker that provides one fifth of daily U.S. crude imports. Morris writes, “The Lohan saga received more press play in New York than in […]
The role of the press in the financial crisis
Peter Goodman, the business editor of the Huffington Post, writes about the role of the business media in the recent financial crisis. Goodman writes, “The trouble was that a louder chorus repeatedly drowned out this probing reporting about the magnitude of the real estate bubble–a steady celebration of permanently rising home price, the fantasy that […]
The role of business journalism in society
Craig Ey, the editor of the Philadelphia Business Journal, writes in Friday’s edition about the role and responsibility of business journalism in a free society like the United States. Ey writes, “That begins to break down when the business press sees itself differently; when business journalists stop taking on the same kind of watchdog role […]
The biz media and analysts
Jonathan Berr writes on 24/7 Wall St. about the relationship between business journalists and analysts, including Rochdale Securities banking analyst Richard Bove. Berr writes, “Bove is one of an elite group of go-to analysts who journalists can count on for pithy commentary under tight deadlines. Many analysts and fund managers are either unable or unwilling […]
When biz journalism sites charge for access
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon writes Monday about journalism sites that want to charge consumers for access, in the wake of being asked to be on the advisory board for Fiwords.com, the site for The Financial Writer’s Stylebook, which is charging for access. Salmon writes, “Roush asked me to be on the advisory board of the […]
The problem with Fortune’s best companies list
Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times writes Sunday about the problems of Fortune magazine trying to rank the best places to work. Kellaway writes, “The problem with Fortune’s rankings – and with all similar ones – is not that the exercise is a daft one. Actually, it is quite worthwhile. It is helpful both to […]
