The founding of the Indianapolis Business Journal
Tom Harton, the editor of the Indianapolis Business Journal, writes in the latest issue about the founding of the paper back in 1980 by Mark Vittert with funding from a former insurance company CEO. Harton writes, “Vittert had another idea up his sleeve. Crain’s Chicago Business, a weekly newspaper meant to appeal to the local […]
Biz media tries to explain market drop — and fails
Mark Gimein of The Big Money writes Friday about the struggles that the business news media had on Thursday afternoon in its attempt to explain to readers and viewers what exactly was causing the stock market to drop so fast. Gimein writes, “This is likely to turn out to be a story about a market […]
The CEO and the editorial page editor
Susanna Rodell, the former editorial page editor of the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, writes Friday about her encounter with Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who runs the mining company where 29 people died earlier this year in an accident. Rodell writes in the Atlanta Constitution: “He arrived at our office with a PR guy […]
Remembering Louis Rukeyser
Jonathan Hoenig writes Thursday on SmartMoney.com about former “Wall $treet Week” anchor Louis Rukeyser and his influence on investors. Hoenig writes, “The show was described as a ‘Mister Rukeyser’s Neighborhood for grown-ups.’ Rukeyser excelled at putting complex economic analysis into an accessible, meaningful, and most importantly, actionable format. ‘The average American is intensely interested in […]
Wolff: Sorkin too soft on Goldman, Buffett
Newser founder Michael Wolff writes Wednesday that New York Times business reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin was starstruck in covering Warren Buffett and his stake in Goldman Sachs this weekend at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. Wolff writes, “Andrew Ross Sorkin, the New York Times business reporter, may be even more in love with successful people […]
BusinessWeek overhaul accomplishes its goals
Marion Maneker of The Big Money likes what has been done to Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine. Maneker writes, “The first two issues of Bloomberg BusinessWeek are a veritable Sears catalogue of business news serving each of its core constituencies. From the Bloomberg side, it presents some of the site’s content in a new context, helping buy-side […]
Lack of Pulitzers at WSJ concerns some editors
Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine writes Monday about the feeling among some at The Wall Street Journal newsroom about the fact that the paper hasn’t won a Pulitzer Prize in three years. Sherman writes, “In a year when the financial crisis was a major story, Journal editors believed the paper’s strongest chances for a […]
Ignoring — or overplaying — Apple
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs riffs on business media coverage of Apple, noting that a recent story was either ignored or overplayed.
Buffett and the business media
Peter Cohan writes on DailyFinance.com about how billionaire Warren Buffett manipulates the business press so easily. Cohan writes, “In addition to having Fortune‘s blessing (as evidenced in part by Loomis’s editing his annual report), Buffett spent time conducting off-the-record interviews with reporters. Lewis reported that this led to a media kerfuffle after Nov. 8, 1991, […]
NYT biz columnist Carr slams Apple reaction to Gizmodo
David Carr, a media columnist for the New York Times, doesn’t like the way that Apple reacted to tech blog Gizmodo purchasing a prototype iPhone that had been left in a bar by one of its employees and then writing about it. Carr writes, “The media’s crush on Apple has always been an unrequited love […]
