The inherent difficulties in business reporting
Sharon Dunn, the business editor of the Greeley Tribune since 2004, writes Sunday about the issues she often faces in tracking down business news. Dunn writes, “Business owners and corporate executives don’t always want to go public too quickly on new projects. (Just ask Larry Burkhardt at Upstate Colorado Economic Development about how many times […]
Analyzing the new BusinessWeek
Joe Weber, a former chief of correspondents for BusinessWeek who is now a journalism professor at the University of Nebraska, blogs about his impressions of the new version of the magazine unveiled last week by its new owners, Bloomberg LP. Weber writes, “It also boasts a knockout layout, in some ways a return to the […]
Thanks, but no thanks
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo has been making the rounds in recent weeks to promote her new book, “The 10 Laws of Enduring Success.” In the book, Bartiromo thanks a lot of people who have helped her become a success. She done the same in interviews recently about the book. Those mentioned […]
The decline of WSJ's M&A coverage
Yvette Kantrow, executive editor of The Deal, writes Wednesday that The Wall Street Journal‘s coverage of mergers and acquisitions is not what it used to be — and won’t be in the future if deals heat up. Kantrow writes, “Dennis Berman‘s allegedly biweekly column, ‘The Game,’ hadn’t appeared for an entire month before resurfacing on […]
New Bloomberg.com a step in the right direction
Douglas McIntyre, the editor of 24/7WallStreet.com, likes the appearance and features in the newly redesigned Bloomberg.com McIntyre writes, “The lack of clutter is only one of two strengths of the new Bloomberg.com. The layout of the site does not include an overwhelming amount of numerical data about the stock market indexes – Bloomberg knows that […]
Longtime WSJ subscriber on why he canceled subscription
PR executive Eric Starkman writes about why he recently canceled his Wall Street Journal subscription. Starkman writes, “During the 20 or so years I’ve lived in Manhattan, I always knew that when I opened my apartment door at 6:00 am, the Journal would there waiting for me. Further, I knew that calling the customer support center in […]
PR and business journalists
Norm Bell, the editor of the Hartford Business Journal, writes about the communications relationship between public relations professionals and business journalists. Bell writes, “We find interesting ways to make errors. And we don’t need help. “We’ve been wrestling with some problems associated with sloppy public relations work. When we wrote a web item for HBJ […]
The WSJ, the NYT and the Goldman story
Jeff Bercovici of DailyFinance.com wonders whether The Wall Street Journal got scooped Friday by the New York Times on the SEC filing charges against Goldman Sachs because of the changes that Rupert Murdoch has made since acquiring the business newspaper. Bercovici writes, “Journal insiders are divided over whether and to what extent the paper’s new […]
Guest slams Cramer about Goldman
Steve Krakauer of Mediaite notes Friday that a guest on CNBC criticized “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer. Krakauer writes, “Today during Jim Cramer’s segment on CNBC’s Street Signs with Erin Burnett, guest Sylvain Raynes from R&R Consulting went after Cramer – and Cramer fired back. “After Cramer seemed to defend Goldman Sachs, or at least […]
Goldman Sachs sued by the Feds, or Tila Tequila's business tips?
When the news broke Friday morning that the Securities and Exchange Commission was filing charges against Goldman Sachs, most business news media scurried to cover the story. Not Fox Business Network, however. It stayed with an interview with reality star Tila Tequila, who was talking about turning her life into a business, reports Gillian Reagan […]
