Lowe's headlines miss the mark
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs doesn’t like how Reuters and other media wrote their headlines recently about the earnings from home improvement retailer Lowe’s.
Financial media hurt reader nest eggs
Daniel Solin of DailyFinance.com writes Sunday that the personal finance media have a way of hurting readers saving for retirement. Solin writes, “The reality was nicely expressed by William Bernstein in his excellent book, The Four Pillars of Investing: ‘Turn on CNBC at 9:31 a.m. any weekday morning and you’re faced with a lunatic asylum […]
Web ads spice up online biz section
Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter for the Daily Breeze in Torrance, Calif., writes about the racy online ads that now appear next to his stories on the paper’s Web site. El-Hasan writes, “When you go to one of the business stories or business blog posts on our Web site, at least nine out of 10 […]
CNBC's Burnett to the "Today" show?
Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman believes that CNBC anchor Erin Burnett would be a great selection to replace “Today” show anchor Matt Lauer. Friedman writes, “But Burnett, 33, is a unique case. After establishing herself at Bloomberg TV, she went on to be an anchor, reporter and interviewer at CNBC. Burnett has appeared on ‘Meet […]
Biz reporters use Cisco sell-off as reason to downplay earnings
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs doesn’t like how the business media reported Cisco’s earnings this week and used the after-market sell-off after the company reported stellar numbers to downplay the news.
NYT's Sorkin experiences controversy
Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman writes Wednesday about New York Times mergers and acquisitions reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin, who recently has been mired in controversy about his reporting. Friedman writes, “If Sorkin didn’t exist, the Times would have wanted to invent someone like him. He is equally at ease reporting and blogging for the paper, […]
The pickle that was the WSJ
Bloomberg News columnist Joe Mysak reviews “War at The Wall Street Journal,” the book by former Journal reporter Sarah Ellison about how News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch acquired the paper’s parent company, Dow Jones & Co. Mysak writes, “Based on her original reporting for the newspaper (and re- reported here), the book is as scrupulously […]
Threats to biz reporter cease after CEO arrested
Kaja Whitehouse, a business reporter at the New York Post, writes Tuesday about how the nasty e-mails and threats she and her family had been receiving from fans of SpongeTech Delivery Systems suddenly disappeared after its CEO was arrested and charged with criminal charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and obstruction of justice. Whitehouse writes, […]
Biz media and reporting on the British prime minister's resignation
Business journalist Teri Buhl writes about how some business news media such as Bloomberg raced to break the news about the resignation of British prime minister Gordon Brown because of its importance to markets, but CNBC seemed to miss its relevance. Buhl writes, “On a day when the Dow was soaring 400 points and trading […]
New columnist at Marketwatch.com
Jon Markman, who recently had been writing a column for MSN Money, will now write a weekly column for Marketwatch.com on the global equity and credit markets. “Speculation is one of the most important but misunderstood forces in capital markets,” said Markman in a statement. “My column will explain who is taking the biggest risks […]
