BusinessWeek relaunch as SNL skit
Rafat Ali of PaidContent.org makes fun Friday of the short videos that Bloomberg BusinessWeek has posted about its upcoming relaunch of the magazine under new editor Josh Tyrangiel. Ali writes, “And to help its ‘readers’ navigate the radically new concept of a business mag, I have taken some notes below: —’They come to us with […]
NYT ombudsman comes down on Krugman's side
New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt weighs in Thursday on the dispute between the paper’s columnist Paul Krugman and business writer Andrew Ross Sorkin after Sorkin wrote that Krugman favored nationalizing the country’s banks. Hoyt writes, “Krugman and Sorkin told me that they talked Thursday. Sorkin said the conversation was ‘very cordial.’ Krugman called […]
"60 Minutes" unfair to Chevron, according to CJR
Martha Hamilton of the Columbia Journalism Review writes Thursday that a “60 Minutes” segment last year about Chevron was unfair to the oil company. Hamilton writes, “Based on a review of documents provided by Chevron and publicly available information from other sources in this matter, I find that the main Chevron complaint is warranted, namely, […]
Three reasons why the WSJ hasn't won a Pulitzer in three years
Peter Kadzis of the Boston Phoenix notes that The Wall Street Journal is the only paper among the four — with the other three being the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times — that have dominated the Pulitzers in recent years to go three years without winning at least one. He speculates […]
The business news Pulitzer that no one noticed
In the past 24-plus hours there has been a lot of hand wringing about the lack of a Pulitzer Prize in business journalism this year. For example, on Monday, shortly after the Pulitzers were announced, Columbia Journalism Review writer Ryan Chittum tweeted the following: “Business journalism shut out of Pulitzers–again. I’d say that’s a statement.” […]
Getting the business treatment
Howard Bernstein, a former TV producer, blogs about the problems with business journalism and what he would do to improve its performance. Bernstein writes, “My first proposal is that it should be against the law to name any stock or other financial product as something that the public should buy or sell. The practice is […]
More on WSJ's lack of Pulitzers
Aaron Elstein of Crain’s New York Business writes Monday about the Wall Street Journal being shut out of winning a Pulitzer Prize for the third consecutive year. Elstein writes, “It has come close a couple of times since. It was a finalist in 2009 for its coverage of the financial collapse and a finalist again […]
Lessons in retail reporting
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs talks about mistakes in business reporting about Best Buy and Bed Beth & Beyond.
More on the NYT Twitter on Toyota
Cleveland Plain Dealer ombudsman Ted Diadiun has perspective Sunday about New York Times business reporter Hiroko Tabuchi, who posted Tweets about Toyota before and during the company’s news conference she covered. Diadiun writes, “So when Tabuchi unburdened herself about Toyota, she wasn’t just griping to sympathetic colleagues about her problems. She was telling her nearly […]
The lack of wisdom in financial journalism
Max Zeledon, a former research analyst at International Data Group in San Francisco who runs a digital consulting firm, writes about financial journalism in the wake of running across “Mad Money” and Jim Cramer on CNBC last night. Zeledon writes, “Maybe I’m being unfair to him because he is an entertainer after all, but his […]
