The barrier for business journalism
Charlie Beckett of the London School of Economics writes about the issues facing business journalism if it is to improve. Beckett writes, “Financial journalism will always disappoint those in a complex and basically boring business who bemoan the fact that the media is ignorant and that the public doesn’t understand (or care) about the finer […]
Business journalism, blogging and reading
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon looks in a Friday blog post at the future of business journalism and how blogging and the Internet are changing it. Salmon writes, “Financial journalists know better than most how tight the journalism job market really is: in my field, demand for good journalists vastly exceeds supply. I get asked on […]
NYU professor: Here's what's wrong with "Marketplace"
New York University professor Jay Rosen writes about what he dislikes about “Marketplace,” the National Public Radio business show every morning. Rosen writes, “The problem with this report is that it cannot decide if it wants to be the audible Wall Street Journal or Adam Smith for Dummies, a business person’s show, or a show […]
CNBC's Bartiromo to write column for USA Today
CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, whose regular column in BusinessWeek was cancelled when the magazine was purchased by Bloomberg, will now write a regular column in USA Today. A release stated that the column will be in a question-and-answer interview format — similar to what she was doing for BusinessWeek — and will “provide readers with […]
What’s the WSJ’s “Special Project”? Some guesses here
Staci Kramer of PaidContent.org has some educated guesses as to the “Special Project” being worked on at The Wall Street Journal that was announced to the staff by managing editor Robert Thomson late Tuesday. Kramer writes, “One idea suggested by the choices: a project integrating the two into one news organization. But the way their […]
The hamster wheel in business newsrooms
Dean Starkman of Columbia Journalism Review takes aim Tuesday at the effect of asking business journalists to do more daily reporting and less investigative work and has some numbers to back up his argument that this hurts the ability to do in-depth pieces. Starkman writes, “‘We give them three times as many things that are […]
Biz media and the CEO profile
Public relations executive Norman Birnbach writes Tuesday about the trends he sees occurring in the business media when a CEO is profiled. Birnbach’s list includes: Forbes runs profiles of CEOs at large companies to depict a buy or sell opportunity or profiles of small, private companies as an opportunity of what to watch and invest […]
WSJ. magazine fails to serve its readers
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon is not a big fan of the WSJ. magazine because he believes it caters to the fashion industry too much and users a recent article about boots as a prime example. Salmon writes, “Conley mentions in passing, in his piece, that after Deckers lost the lawsuit in Australia, it failed to […]
How biz journalism has changed in dealing with PR folks
Chris Rauber, a reporter for the San Francisco Business Times, writes about how business journalism has changed and is more opinionated, particularly when it is dealing with companies. Rauber writes, “This came up just yesterday, when I was excoriated by an experienced PR guy for referring to his company’s name as ‘unwieldy’ in print. “(Go […]
Addressing business journalism's image
Robert Teitelman, the editor of The Deal, writes in the latest issue in response to a recent New York Times opinion piece by Reuters editor at large Chrystia Freeland about the image problem in business journalism. Teitelman writes, “Indeed, the “image problem” that Freeland raises is really a much larger, much more profound political problem. […]
