Business journalists and their relationships with CEOS
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon examines the relationships that business journalists have with executives in the wake of CNBC’s Dennis Kneale criticizing The Daily Beast’s Peter Lauria for publishing a voice mail left for him by CEO Sumner Redstone. Salmon writes, “It’s an integral part of the CNBC formula, which regularly gets CEOs onto TV so […]
What it was like to work at Trader Monthly
Rich Blake, who now writes for Reuters Hedge World, reminisces none too happily about what it was like to work at the now-defunct Trader Monthly magazine and its parent, Doubledown Media, under head Russell Lane. Blake writes, “The only thing more perplexing than how/why the company ever tried to function without even a single full-time […]
How Consumer Reports took on Apple
David Carr of the New York Times writes Monday about how Consumer Reports takedown of the new iPhone forced Apple CEO Steve Jobs to react when other business media failed. Carr writes, “How did Consumer Reports make Apple blink? In large measure, the article in Consumer Reports was devastating precisely because the magazine (and its […]
Amused, and disappointed, at editor's jargon
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon doesn’t like the jargon that came from CNNMoney.com executive editor Chris Peacock during the interview posted earlier today on Talking Biz News. Salmon writes, “The top editor of most publications has always been wheeled out to impress advertisers on a regular basis, but online editors can often be much more constructive […]
Hard to find qualified biz reporters? You're not alone
Jonah Bloom, the editor in chief of Breaking Media, the parent company of sites such as Dealbreaker and Going Concern, writes about the difficulty in hiring journalists with business reporting experience. Bloom writes, “I used to think it was just me who had to dig for days to turn up a single good candidate. Maybe, […]
Puff PR — about the NYT biz section — that any biz editor would hate
Hal Morris, writing on his GrumpyEditor.com blog, doesn’t like the soft press release that the New York Times distributed earlier this week about its business section. Morris writes, “Just about every newspaper business editor, contends Grumpy Editor, would grumble when reading a news release with self-praising corporate puffery — including mentions of ‘rapidly establishing itself,’ […]
Biz media miss housing story
Michael David White writes for HousingStory.net about how the major business news media missed the housing story about the decline in demand for new houses falling to a record low. White writes, “Among the outlets who failed to uncover either of the two record negative stats are Barrons, Dow Jones, The Financial Times, Fox Business, […]
Liking the new Bloomberg Businessweek
David Warsh of EconomicPrincipals.org writes that the revamped Bloomberg Businessweek is now a much more interesting read than when it was owned by McGraw-Hill. Warsh writes, “Instead, each issue begins with what regularly seems to be its best piece, what newsmagaziness used to call a ‘violin,’ here designated ‘Opening Remarks.’ This week it was Hugo […]
Journalism has the right to be wrong
The New York Times has an editorial in Sunday’s newspaper about the failure of the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a First Amendment case with business journalism implications. The Times editorial states, “Unfortunately, the court missed an opportunity to uphold that principle when it refused to take an important First Amendment case last week. “In […]
Bad PR mistakes, according to a longtime business journalist
Donna Fenn, who has been a business journalist for more than 20 years, writes on BNET about the worst public relations mistakes she has encountered. Here are a couple: Pitching off-topic. Say I put the word out on HARO (Help a Reporter Out, which we all love), or on Facebook or Twitter that I’m searching […]
