Handling the new biz journalism
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of The Deal, examines how some publications are trying to cover the world of business and finance in the 21st century and decides that The Huffington Post and The Atlantic have it figured out better than Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Kantrow writes, “The Huffington Post, for one, has signed on telegenic econoblogger […]
The role of the business press
Craig Ey, the editor of the Birmingham Business Journal, tries to answer that question in his column in the latest issue. Ey writes, “It’s a question I get from time-to-time – and it came up again last week after our story ‘Birmingham Business Alliance offers no 2010 legislative agenda’ appeared on the cover of last […]
WSJ econ editor: Biz reporters failed
Wall Street Journal economics editor David Wessel spoke Wednesday to a group of business reporters at the newspaper’s office in midtown Manhattan, and he was critical of their performance in the past few years. David Hechler of Corporate Counsel writes, “At times Wessel sounded more upbeat about the economy than he did about his profession. […]
A day late, a dollar short
Former BusinessWeek writer Gary Weiss notes that the Salt Lake Tribune got around to reporting on the departure of Overstock.com‘s head of internal finance controls a week after he left, but the effort was weak. Weiss writes, “By the way, just assuming for a moment that there is a connection with the Big Money article, […]
Cramer on Morrow's death: He taught us to sing
TheStreet.com co-founder and chairman Jim Cramer writes Tuesday about what he liked about working with Dave Morrow, the site’s former editor in chief who died Monday night. Cramer writes, “Dave Morrow was the good part of journalism in the 21st century, the journalism that you could still do, that you could still afford, that didn’t […]
Byrne: Business journalism will rise again, but online
Former BusinessWeek executive editor John Byrne writes in the latest issue of PRWeek that he believes that business journalism, despite the monetary and staff losses from the past few years, will return to its glory days soon, but it will be on the Internet. Byrne writes, “Amid all the havoc and pain, I’ll make a […]
Why taking stock picks from biz journalists is bad
Mark Gimein writes on The Big Money why taking investment advice from business reporters is an unbelievably bad idea. Gimein writes, “Reporters make bad stock pickers, and I’m no exception. Very rarely have I had the temerity to actually recommend a specific stock. When I have a stock idea, I almost never put it in […]
More to Detroit biz news than cars
Keith Crain, editor in chief of Crain’s Detroit Business, writes on the 25th anniversary of the paper’s founding that its focus hasn’t changed — it still wants to report on the business news in Detroit that others ignore. Crain writes, “But nobody covered just the business of Detroit. Even then, when you had two robust […]
Why the country needs more economic reporting
Felix Salmon of Reuters notes that a recent Gallup/First Amendment Center poll shows that 40 percent of Americans think that there needs to be more reporting on President Obama’s economic policies — the highest of any policy — and discusses the problems with such coverage. Reuters writes, “Firstly, the question asks not about what Americans […]
BusinessWeek will be quality with hiring of new editors
James Ledbetter, the editor of The Big Money site, likes the hiring of former Fortune managing editor Eric Pooley and New York magazine editorial director Hugo Lindgren to help oversee the content in Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek. Ledbetter writes, “The external message seems to be that BW is going to put a premium on the high-quality writing […]
