Lack of coverage in Utah papers about Overstock.com?
Former BusinessWeek writer Gary Weiss, a frequent critic of Overstock.com and its CEO, Patrick Byrne, wants to know why the Utah papers have not covered the departure of a top executive from the company. Weiss writes, “What I wonder about is the bewildering (or maybe not so bewildering) silence of Overstock’s hometown newspapers, the Salt […]
Free Dan Neil from LA Times biz section, Web site
Matthew DeBord of The Big Money wants the Los Angeles Times to give a more prominent spot to Pulitzer Prize-winning auto critic Dan Neil than his current position in the business section. DeBord writes, “There’s often a vitally important, or at least highly entertaining, critic essaying away in American media — a Robert Hughes writing […]
The carefully managed buzz about Apple's new product
New York Times media columnist David Carr writes Monday about how Apple manages to cultivate coverage about major announcements without really saying anything to the press. Carr writes, “And the most magical part? Even as the media and technology worlds have anticipated this announcement for months, Apple has said not word one about The Device. […]
A sense of mistrust between Bloomberg and BusinessWeek
Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman writes Monday about the mistrust that still exists between Bloomberg and BusinessWeek staffers now that the former owns the latter. Friedman writes, “Remember, BusinessWeek veterans don’t exactly have a reputation for opening their arms to a newcomer. These are the same wags who dubbed Steve Adler as ‘Steve Two’ not […]
Ritholtz: WSJ is no longer a must-read for investors
Investor and blogger Barry Ritholtz argues that the changes at The Wall Street Journal in terms of coverage and story placement make it less relevant to the people who were previously its core audience — investors. Ritholtz writes, “My bottom line for content is performance — if I can rely on something to provide me […]
New WSJ book is "scrupulously fair"
New York Times business columnist David Carr got a hold of the upcoming book about the sale of The Wall Street Journal from former Journal reporter Sarah Ellison and gave it high marks. The book, titled “War at The Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Empire,” is scheduled to be […]
Biz editor to PR: Stop sending me pictures of naked women
Tony Kindelspire, the business editor of the Longmont Times-Call in Colorado, writes that he’d like for public relations people to stop sending him pictures of women in their pitches. Kindelspire writes, “Dealing with public relations people comes with the territory when you work in the newspaper business. But the skill level of these ‘professionals’ can […]
Bloomberg's Pearlstine speaks
Norman Pearlstine, the chief content officer at Bloomberg, spoke to the global business journalism program at Tsinghua University in China and argued that the changes occurring in the industry will lead to a golden era of journalism. Alfred Charles Co, a student in the program, writes, “Providing specialized information in greater depth to selected audiences […]
Blogging vs. writing for the mainstream
Miguel Barbosa of GuruFocus.com interviewed Justin Fox, the economics and business columnist for Time magazine, about economic theory and writing about economics, as well as how he tries to explain what’s going on in the economy. Here is an excerpt: Let’s talk about your top blog, “The Curious Capitalist.†How do you balance being a […]
Problem with Reuters/Cohen saga is Wenig's call to Schlesinger
Former Reuters employee Philip Stone writes on Followthemedia.com that the brouhaha surrounding the spiking of a story at the wire service about hedge fund manager Steven Cohen would have never happened if a company executive had not called editor in chief David Schlesinger. Stone writes, “Well, since this writer was a senior executive in Reuters […]
