NY Times Opinion hires Mahanta as vertical editor for business, economics and tech
New York Times acting editorial page editor Kathleen Kingsbury sent out the following announcement on Monday: Siddhartha Mahanta joins Opinion as vertical editor for business, economics and technology. Most recently, Sid was managing editor of Rest of World, a digital magazine that covers tech, business and culture. Sid began his career as an editor at […]
Why are business journalists biased against business?
James McCarthy writes for The National Review that business journalists should not be biased against companies. McCarthy writes, “Nowhere is this unholy alliance more obvious than on the business page. In what other section are journalists so uniformly filled with animosity toward the subjects they claim to cover objectively? An arts writer who despised film and […]
The connection between WSJ opinion and the Bradley Foundation
William Cohan of Vanity Fair writes about the connection between the Wall Street Journal opinion writers and the Bradley Foundation, which has given $1 million in prizes to those writers. Cohan writes, “During these highly polarized times, drawing links between the Journal editorial board and the Bradley Foundation is treacherous, especially for an author whose books have […]
The WSJ’s opinion section threatens to destroy it
Alex Shephard writes for The New Republic about the damage being done to The Wall Street Journal by its opinion section. Shephard writes, “As for The Wall Street Journal, it is facing a dilemma familiar to many news outlets owned by Murdoch. Call it the Fox News problem—it’s what happens when you try to run a credible […]
Why Tesla dropping its PR department is bad news for biz journalism
Hamilton Nolan writes for the Columbia Journalism Review about Tesla Motors decision to drop its public relations department and what it means for journalists. Nolan writes, “THIS MONTH we learned that Tesla, a $400 billion public company run by one of the richest people in the world, has done away with its media relations department—effectively formalizing an informal […]
Levine: The Bloomberg columnist who makes sense of Wall Street
Emily Flitter of the New York Times profiles Bloomberg Opinion columnist Matt Levine, who has gained a following of 150,000 subscribers to his Money Stuff newsletter. Flitter writes, “In financial news — a medium not known for cultivating eccentric or literary voices — there’s no other writer quite like Mr. Levine, a former Goldman Sachs banker whose deadpan […]
Surowiecki to write column for Marker
James Surowiecki, who wrote The Financial Page for The New Yorker magazine, has been hired by online business publication Marker to write a regular column called “Money Talks.” “Every other week he’ll be unearthing surprising trends in the economy, diving into untold business stories, and offering his incisive analysis of what’s really going on with […]
A South African business editor on financial journalism’s failure
Lukanyo Mnyanda, the editor of Business Day in South Africa, writes about why business journalism has failed society. Mnyanda writes, “Financial journalists attract criticism for their lack of investigative skills, as opposed to simply reporting on and analysing financial and other calendar events. They might, with the help of analysts, be good at analysing the […]
Union-Tribune puts “Career Advice” column in hiatus
Phil Blair’s “Career Advice” column will not run in the San Diego Union-Tribune business section on Mondays for at least a couple of months, reports readers representative Adrian Vore. Vore reports, “That’s because he is running for one of three open seats on the Del Mar City Council. His column last appeared Aug. 24. “‘We […]
Bloomberg Opinion hires Tax Foundation’s Smith
Karl Smith, the vice president for federal tax and economic policy at the Tax Foundation, has been hired by Bloomberg Opinion in a full-time role. He has been at the Tax Foundation since December 2019, leading the federal team in working with federal officials to improve the national tax code. Smith had previously been an […]
