Better business journalism
David Indiviglio of The Atlantic writes about how business journalism could be better in response to an interview with Chrystia Freeland, the U.S. managing editor of The Financial Times, who states that even better journalism would not have prevented the economic crisis. Indiviglio writes, “I’ve noticed the vast, vast majority of business news coverage can […]
Dorfman: Financial media acting badly
Long-time business journalist Dan Dorfman writes on The Huffington Post about what he perceives to be major problems in what the financial media are telling consumers. Dorfman writes, “I, for one, thought sheer lunacy had struck the financial media when someone told me some time ago that CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow had actually predicted the […]
Reuters/Cohen episode: What next?
TALKING BIZ NEWS EDITORIAL Reuters editor in chief David Schlesinger is scheduled to meet with the wire service’s bureau chiefs from North America and South America on Tuesday at 9 a.m. in New York, and if he wants to improve the morale in its newsrooms across the world, he should speak forcefully from the beginning. […]
BusinessWeek will survive, but won't regain old luster
Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman, a former BusinessWeek staffer, writes Friday that the weekly magazine now owned by Bloomberg will improve in 2010, but it won’t regain its former leading status among business news glossies. Friedman writes, “It’s not so much that industry observers are dying to know what’s on the cover. No, they’ll be […]
Taking financial advice from a writer
Brett Arends, who writes a column for WSJ.com and Marketwatch.com, questions Wednesday why readers take financial advice from writers. Arends writes, “Here’s the thing. Six years ago, just before I returned to the United States, an investment manager in London asked if I wanted to join his team as an analyst. He is a brilliant […]
All-Bloomberg cover on BusinessWeek
Former BusinessWeek reporter Gary Weiss notes that the latest cover of the magazine is written by Bloomberg News reporters, a first since Bloomberg bought the magazine. Weiss writes, “What they produced was provocative and needed to be told, describing how the Street has defeated Wall Street reforms. Certainly the cover (left) is as hard-hitting as […]
Did the biz press do its job in 2009?
At the end of his CNN “Crossfire” show on Sunday, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz and panelists Bill Press, Chris Stirewalt and Jessica Yellin about how the media performed in 2009, including business news coverage. Here is an excerpt: YELLIN: And they’re doing it still in some ways — all of the media collectively […]
A PhD in financial journalism
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon writes about the potential for financial journalists to obtain a PhD, thus gaining more expertise in the field that they cover. A former Lehman executive by the name of Lennie Fuller is exploring the possibility at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Salmon writes, “Fuller also wonders whether financial journalism ‘should […]
Stewart slamming Cramer is biz journalism moment of 2009
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of The Deal, writes that the evisceration of CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer by “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart was the most telling moment in business journalism in the past year. Kantrow writes, “This isn’t to say the media couldn’t have done a better job covering problems in […]
Stossel hasn't changed with move to Fox Business
Sam Allis of the Boston Globe reviews the new John Stossel show on Fox Business Network, noting that they host goes after the same targets he attacked while at ABC. Allis writes, “The classic Stossel moment came when he produced an electric golf cart he acquired for the exact amount of money as its federal […]
