BP controlling the message
New York Times media columnist David Carr writes for Monday’s paper about how oil company British Petroleum continues to control the information disseminated to the media about its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Carr writes, “So what amount of oil was coming out of that hole in the first place? We will […]
Did ex-Trader Monthly EIC take liberties with art, sources?
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE By Teri Buhl It looks like Randall Lane, former editor in chief and president of bankrupt Doubledown Media, the publisher of Trader Monthly magazine, which went under last year, has some explaining to do. Vanity Fair is publishing, via an agreement with Penguin Press, in its July issue an excerpt from […]
Bad coverage of WSJ and its iPad app
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch spoke earlier this week at the Wall Street Journal‘s “All Things Digital” conference, and he praised the iPad. Frances Martel of Mediaite covered Murdoch’s comments later on Fox Business Network and wrote, “Murdoch hinted that he would like to see the News Corp-owned Wall Street Journal […]
Adjectives and the AIG coverage
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs comments Wednesday about the adjectives used to describe the scuttled AIG deal to sell its Asian life insurance business.
The biz media have no clue about what moves markets
Peter Cohan writes on DailyFinance.com about how the financial media seem to have no idea what moves markets. Cohan writes, “The basic problem is that what business journalists write about stocks doesn’t explain what makes markets move. This failure reveals three dysfunctions of financial journalism: 1. Repeating analyst quotes as if they were explanations; 2. […]
What True/Slant means to Forbes
Sheila Shayon of Brand Channel writes Wednesday about what Forbes‘ acquisition of True/Slant will mean to the business magazine. Shayon writes, “It’s fighting for its life in a media category, business journalism, that has been in a state of turmoil in the past year, with BusinessWeek sold to Bloomberg, Fortune changing its frequency and the […]
Loebs and blogging don't mix
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon, who was a Loeb Award judge this year, argues that the Pulitzer Prizes of business journalism still haven’t figured out blogging, and bloggers still haven’t figured out the Loebs. Salmon writes, “Reuters nominated me for the Online Commentary and Blogging category and I didn’t make the final four. And this is […]
Loebs and blogging don’t mix
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon, who was a Loeb Award judge this year, argues that the Pulitzer Prizes of business journalism still haven’t figured out blogging, and bloggers still haven’t figured out the Loebs. Salmon writes, “Reuters nominated me for the Online Commentary and Blogging category and I didn’t make the final four. And this is […]
The bubble on bubbles
Sean Dougherty writes on Forbes.com about how the business media seems to want to call a bubble on every investment these days. Dougherty writes, “This is in large part because the business media still feel guilty about missing the housing bubble–even though article after article was written about the ahistorical rise in home values and […]
Movies on CNBC this summer
Steve Krakauer of Mediaite takes a look at the decision by business news network CNBC to air movies on Friday nights this summer. Krakauer writes, “Other movies include The Thomas Crown Affair and The Rainmaker. The movies air Friday nights at 8pmET, as well as during the July 4 weekend. On Twitter, CNBC correspondent Jane […]
