Baltimore biz columnist threatened by company
Baltimore Sun business columnist Jay Hancock writes Tuesday about how he called the vice president of global marketing at Abbott Laboratories after e-mails the executive sent with a threat to Hancock were subpoenaed by the Senate Finance Committee and published Monday in a report. “Don’t you have connections in Baltimore?????” Pacitti e-mailed a subordinate regarding […]
A wet kiss from the NYT biz section
The NYTpicker site writes Sunday that the profile of General Electric Co. and CEO Jeff Immelt in the Sunday business section of the New York Times is a puff piece. NYTpicker writes, “But this week — to borrow the language of the virtual GE press release it published as a cover story today — it’s […]
Stop the presses. The beige book is out
Dan Barkin, a senior editor at The (Raleigh) News & Observer and the paper’s former business editor, riffs on the release of the beige book on Wednesday and other economic indicators. Barkin writes, “I was just looking at the CNBC app on my Blackberry (this tells you everything you need to know about me), and […]
A biz editor and his PR loot
Jon Chesto, the business editor of the Quincy Patriot-Ledger, writes about all of the stuff that public relations firms have sent him in a bid to gain coverage. Chesto writes, “The latest package to arrive here was even hand-delivered, courtesy of New England Development. The new owner of the Westgate Mall is helpfully reminding us […]
Why tech journalists should be entrepreneurs
Lukas Zinnagl, editor of TechCrunch EU, gives five reasons why tech reporters need to be entrepreneurs as well. Zinnagl writes, “Michael Arrington, Om Malik and others are masters of research and inherently the reason why they’ve become successful. Researching a market is crucial to any Tech entrepreneur thinking of starting a company, however there is […]
Bad Black Friday coverage
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs doesn’t like the bulk of Black Friday coverage he’s seen.
Pulitzer winning biz columnist to cut back on writing for teaching
Steven Pearlstein, the business columnist at the Washington Post who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 in the commentary category, announced at the end of his column in Wednesday’s paper that he’s going to limit his writing for the paper so that he can teach. Pearlstein writes, “Starting next fall, I’ll be the Clarence J. […]
The FT has become hostile to bloggers
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon doesn’t like the new warning that appears when someone copies text from a Financial Times article to use on a blog or other online venue. Salmon writes, “Hilariously, even the FT’s own journalists are falling foul of this idiocy: on Thursday, in his Markets Live conversation, Neil Hume wound up pasting […]
Who "owns" business news?
Washington & Lee journalism ethics professor Edward Wasserman writes in the Miami Herald about the tricky question of who owns news after it’s been reported, using the recent court case between Briefing.com and Dow Jones & Co., the parent of Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal, as his news peg. Wasserman writes, “But […]
The Financial Follies: It's Raining Yen
The New York Financial Writers Association hosts the “Financial Follies” dinner every year for business journalists and sources to mingle. Marshall Heyman of The Wall Street Journal has some highlights of Friday’s festivities. Heyman writes, “Because it’s a staged show, the Financial Follies has what it calls a book and lyrics committee. Some of the […]
