How the NYT's Dealbook missed a golden opportunity
Felix Salmon of Reuters writes Tuesday about how the New York Times’ Dealbook blog missed a story about Hewlett-Packard’s criticism of one of its business columnists, Joe Nocera, allowing its competition to beat them to the punch. Salmon writes, “A nice little scoop fell into Dealbook’s lap yesterday, when Ray Lane, the incoming chairman of […]
The business of business journalism
Derek Thompson, a staff writer for TheAtlantic.com, has some fun Tuesday with a recent Onion business news story that was extremely vague. Thompson writes, “But there’s no reason why economic news has to be so nebulous or boring. Business journalism — in print and on TV — needs more clear journalism that says: Here’s what […]
Assessing Dealbreaker and the New York Observer
CNBC.com’s John Carney, who ran Dealbreaker.com from 2006 to 2008, looks at how the deal to sell the business news and gossip site to the New York Observer is being held up because current editor Bess Levin is not signed to a long-term deal. Carney writes, “I don’t think Bess has any actual equity in […]
The cream of the crop
The Daily Beast has a slide show Monday of the top “economic and business commentators” in the United States. Here is the list, with some of the comments: 15. Felix Salmon from Reuters. “Most statistically dexterous journalist.” 14. Alan Abelson from Barron’s. “Astute and unvarnished.” 13. Barry Ritholtz from The Big Picture. 12. Holman Jenkins […]
NYT's Nocera on Wall Street execs, reform legislation
New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera talked Friday at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference about why Wall Street executives feel defensive toward the media.
Praising the new WSJ Weekend
Jack Shafer, the media critic for Slate, likes what he reads in the redesigned and revamped WSJ Weekend. Shafer writes, “In praising WSJ Weekend, I ignore my general policy of reviewing a new publication or redesign for a few issues until the editors get the beast under control. First issues can be like prototypes rushed […]
Reuters news, two years after the deal
The Baron, a site that tracks Reuters-related news, has an editorial Friday examining where the company’s news service stands two years after the company merged with Thomson. The Baron writes, “In the news agency, multi-media packages combining text, pictures, graphics and video have won awards, and innovative formats for popular new platforms like the iPad […]
CNBC, Bartiromo star in latest Wall Street movie
Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman writes Wednesday that the stars of the latest Oliver Stone movie about Wall Street are CNBC and its anchor, Maria Bartiromo. Friedman writes, “If you watch the network during the day, you’ll recognize the likes of Bartiromo, Jim Cramer, David Faber, Becky Quick, Sue Herera and Melissa Lee. “The network’s […]
How the WSJ has drunk the News Corp. Kool-Aid
Jeff Bercovici of DailyFinance.com writes about how the bluster from Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson about the paper’s competition with the New York Times is indicative of how the business newspaper has bought into the News Corp. culture. Bercovici writes, “It’s a tactic straight out of Murdoch’s Fleet Street handbook: Declare victory, however […]
The fast-food nature of business journalism
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of The Deal, writes about the ramifications of a recent ad from Barron’s looking for a financial journalist to write 80 to 100 items per week about the fund industry. Kantrow writes, “That’s right. Eighty. To 100. Items. A week. Or 16 to 20 items a day. Or at least […]
