The biz columnist as fiction author
Jon Talton, the business columnist for the Seattle Times, had a new fiction book called “Deadline Man” released on Saturday in which one of the characters is called The Columnist. Here is an excerpt from an interview Talton conducted about his book with the Lit Witch book blog: Q: Let’s begin with something I was […]
Cuss words and business journalism
Allen Wastler, the managing editor of CNBC.com, writes about the issue facing business journalists covering the Congressional hearings about Goldman Sachs earlier this week — do you use the cuss words spoken or not? Wastler writes, “Journalistically the actual use of the word is valid: It is central to how a Goldman employee really felt […]
BusinessWeek and banned words
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of TheDeal, went looking through the first issue of the renovated Bloomberg BusinessWeek to see if she could find some of the words — but, however, despite, although — that are banned from usage by Bloomberg News staffers. Kantrow writes, “There was hardly a ‘but’ to be found, though I […]
WSJ's New York section falls flat
The New York Observer provides a critique of the new New York section in The Wall Street Journal, and its evaluation is not pretty. The editors write, “In terms of news, the section was dominated by mini-scoops, a disappointment given the paper’s resources and lead time. The first-day lead story on how the Port Authority […]
The law, the iPhone and Gizmodo
Jeff Bercovici of DailyFinance.com writes about whether the police search of a Gizmodo reporter’s house in the wake of it reporting about a lost iPhone prototype was legal. Bercovici writes, “Representatives of Gawker Media, which owns Gizmodo, demanded the immediate return of Chen’s computers on the grounds that their search and seizure was illegal under […]
Assessing the Goldman coverage
Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman writes Wednesday about how the media are performing covering the fraud charges against Goldman Sachs & Co. Friedman writes, “The Goldman story is a test for the media. There is plenty of speculation about such pertinent issues as the firm’s financial prospects, the future of Goldman Chairman and Chief Executive […]
Some Reuters news staffers upset with CEO's Goldman comments
Talking Biz News is hearing from some reporters and editors at Reuters who are miffed about the comments made by their CEO, Tom Glocer, about Goldman Sachs at the same time they’re trying to cover the company. Glocer has written a blog post decrying the “rush to judgment” in the “media driven culture” about Goldman […]
CNN's Velshi has a ratings problem
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE CNN’s chief business correspondent, Ali Velshi, is losing viewers, according to recent Nielsen ratings, three months after switching over and helping out with “CNN Newsroom.” Earlier this week, Velshi announced on the air his cable news philosophy. “I want to get great at keeping you connected to ideas that you otherwise […]
Goldman coverage hurting company because of bad PR strategy
New York-based PR executive Eric Starkman writes Monday for Forbes.com that the negative coverage Goldman Sachs has received since being charged with fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission is a result of its poor public relations strategy. Starkman writes, “When the Securities and Exchange Commission first unveiled allegations that Goldman had misled investors when […]
Why no scoops in BusinessWeek?
Former BusinessWeek staff writer Gary Weiss has problems with a statement by a Bloomberg executive in Monday’s New York Times that says that all breaking news will appear on the Bloomberg wire first, not in the weekly magazine it recently acquired. Weiss writes, “As far back as the 1990s, BW used to run certain time-sensitive, […]
