The future BusinessWeek will look like….
Former BusinessWeek staff member Gary Weiss blogs Friday about what the magazine will look like once its sale to Bloomberg is complete, in the wake of the layoffs at the publication in the last two days. Weiss writes, “It’s not even clear to what extent the new BW will have its own writing staff. Higher-level […]
Cable news and the financial crisis
Kevin Allocca of TVNewser attended a panel on how cable television covered the financial crisis of the past 18 month at Bloomberg’s New York office and filed this report. Allocca writes, “Bloomberg TV’s Margaret Brennan facilitated the audience Q&A, but first had an interesting question of her own: what role did financial cable news play […]
Blodget responds to Salmon slam
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon wonders why Business Insider CEO and blogger Henry Blodget is allowed to pontificate as a business journalist after being barred from the securities industry, and Blodget has responded. Blodget writes, “Felix is not just annoyed by my disclosure. He is also irritated on behalf of journalists everywhere who have been downsized […]
Welch column in BW also bites dust
A management column written by former General Electric CEO Jack Welch and his wife Suzy in BusinessWeek has ended, writes Keith Kelly of the New York Post. The column had been another move by departing editor-in-chief Stephen Adler to overhaul the magazine. Kelly writes, “Welch, who recently ended a 14-week hospital stay, told the Post it was […]
A suggestion for the Loeb awards
Felix Salmon, who blogs about business and finance for Reuters, has some suggestions for the Gerald Loeb Awards in business and financial journalism after receiving a call from one of the judges that they’re considering adding online categories. Salmon writes, “So what happens when the Loeb jury tries to drag itself into the 21st Century […]
Charlotte paper names Stodghill business columnist
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Ron Stodghill, a former business journalist with BusinessWeek, Time and The New York Times, has been named a business columnist for the Charlotte Observer. Business editor Patrick Scott tells Talking Biz News that Stodghill’s appointment was announced Thursday to the staff. The column will run a couple of days per week. […]
New to business column writing
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Melissa Harris, who began writing the “Chicago Confidential” column for the business section of the Chicago Tribune in September, had no business background before she took the job. Harris came to the Tribune from Baltimore, where she covered criminal justice for The Sun. Before that, she worked in Orlando. Harris has […]
Krugman: Fox Business not pro-business, but pro-Republican
New York Times political and economics columnist Paul Krugman argues that Fox Business Network is more of a pro-Republican network like Fox News than it is the pro-business network it purports to be. Krugman writes, “To make their point they bring on such market experts as … John Bolton. As Wolcott writes, ‘It takes more […]
More on Sorkin, the NYT and his book
Marion Maneker writes on The Big Picture blog about what it means for New York Times Sunday business editor Timothy O’Brien to criticize writer Andrew Ross Sorkin in a New York magazine article about the M&A beat reporter, and the influence of Sorkin’s book, “Too Big to Fail.” Maneker writes, “The bone of contention between […]
Discussion on CNBC makes participant cringe
James Ledbetter, the editor of The Big Money, writes about a recent appearance on CNBC where he was part of a panel that discussed the effect of Wal-Mart on society with Dennis Kneale and a University of Michigan professor. Ledbetter writes, “I cringe to provide a link to the segment, but here it is. My […]
