The problem with a judge's ruling
Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times writes Tuesday about the recent judge ruling that prevents a Web site from writing about changes in stock recommendations from Wall Street firms. Sorkin writes, “While the ruling applies only to theflyonthewall.com, a small Web site with several thousand subscribers, the decision could presage a larger effort […]
Kandel on business journalism
Myron Kandel, the founding business editor at CNN, talks Sunday about the current state of business journalism and what he sees happening in the future. Kandel, a two-time president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, was also the financial editor of the New York Post, financial editor of the New York Herald […]
Houston Chronicle personal finance columnist leaves for non-profit
Personal finance columnist Shannon Buggs has left the Houston Chronicle and is running Meta-Four Houston, the youth spoken-word poetry nonprofit she founded. In an e-mail, Buggs told Talking Biz News, “After more than 16 years in daily newspaper journalism, I’m keeping my options open.” In her goodbye column earlier this week, Buggs wrote, “For more […]
BusinessWeek loses its identity
Former BusinessWeek writer Gary Weiss writes Tuesday that the magazine, recently acquired by Bloomberg, has lost its identity as a separate voice in the world of business journalism due to the staff cuts. Weiss writes, “A more interesting indicator can be found by looking at the number of New York-based writers employed by the magazine. […]
Why report on the Dow?
Lori Grisham, the assistant to National Public Radio ombudsman Alicia Shepard, writes about whether reporting about what the Dow Jones Industrial Average is doing during the day is needed for listeners. Grisham writes, “Stock market indexes help newscasters ‘hit the post,’ or finish speaking at exactly the right second. For example, some newscasts begin at […]
Money manager takes shot at CNBC
Money manager John Hussman blamed business news network CNBC for much of the speculation on Wall Street, writes Jeff Benjamin of Investment News. Benjamin writes, “Mr. Hussman, president of Hussman Investment Trust, titled the week’s comment ‘The Rubber Hits the Road.’ But under the subheading of ‘Can we rely on investor myopia?’ he begins to […]
What's wrong with business journalism
Greg Gentschev, the founder of Brekiri, a business information-focused search engine, writes about what he perceives to be the problems with business journalism. Gentschev hates earnings stories, and he can’t understand the dearth of good business blogs. Gentschev writes, “More generally, nothing gets put in context. Few articles appear to have the space (and few […]
Insider vs. outsider business reporting
Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review reviews New York Times business reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin‘s new book, “Too Big to Fail,” and uses it to explore different business reporting strategies. Starkman writes, “Sorkin’s book helps draw a bright line between deal journalism and the work of accountability-oriented reporters. In the former, the reporter-source relationship […]
No way biz media could have predicted financial meltdown
Eric Starkman, who runs a public relations agency called Starkman & Associates, has an interested perspective on what’s wrong with the media world — it’s the leaders — but he also provides an interesting perspective on how the business media performed during the financial crisis. Starkman writes, “Personally, I don’t buy into this notion that […]
Why Quick's column already is much better than Bartiromo's
When Fortune magazine announced last week that CNBC anchor Becky Quick would begin writing a regular column for the glossy, a few snickers were heard among business media insiders. Here we go again, another business magazine trying to pull in readers with name recognition and a pretty face. CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo had written a […]
