Apple's Jobs calls NYT biz columnist — for an off-the-record talk
Joe Nocera, a business columnist for the New York Times, writes Saturday about Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the recurring questions about his health and why the company should disclose more detail about it. Nocera also reports that Jobs himself called during the course of his reporting, but would only talk off the record. It’s […]
Minority and independent businesses rate biz coverage
Eighty-eight percent of minority and independent business owners who have been interviewed by the media say the story that resulted was fair and accurate. However, 83 percent of respondents said reporters must improve their understanding of business. These findings are a part of new research on coverage of minority-owned and privately held businesses from The […]
Reporting on Yahoo! earnings missed the mark
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs writes that the stories about Yahoo’s earnings were off the mark in reporting that the results weren’t as bad as expected. Fuchs writes, “The Business Press Maven is trying to wrap his head around this one: Yahoo! missed expectations, and yet it didn’t. Or, rather, the company missed one set […]
Sale of Entrepreneur magazine stalls
Keith Kelly of the New York Post reports Wednesday that the sale of Entrepreneur magazine has hit a few speed bumps after asking for $200 million as a sales price. Kelly writes, “The rationale for the price was that the late Bernie Goldhirsch got $200 million when he sold Inc. magazine in 2000, and Shea […]
Write great stories; don't worry about awards
In the second part of an interview with Fast Company editor at large Charles Fishman, he walks through the process of turning a magazine article into a full-length book. Fishman also talks about what it took to get his editors to pay for a trip to Fiji, and what he thinks makes for an award-winning […]
Covering lenders in crisis
Clark Hoyt, the public editor of the New York Times, takes a look Sunday at the paper’s coverage of struggling lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the government takeover of another lender, IndyMac. Hoyt believes that the paper was too restrained in its coverage of IndyMac’s problems. Hoyt writes, “The Times buried […]
How Merrill's timing of its earnings release affected its coverage
Jed Horowitz of Dow Jones Newswires writes Friday afternoon about how the timing of Merrill Lynch’s second-quarter earnings release for late Thursday afternoon affected how the poor results were positioned in Friday’s newspapers. Horowitz notes that Merrill said it released its earnings Thursday so it wouldn’t conflict with J.P. Morgan’s earnings release on Friday morning. […]
Media circus surrounds lenders
The Deal executive editor Yvette Kantrow slams business media outlets for their hysterics surrounding the financial troubles of lenders, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Kantrow writes, “Just ask CNBC’s Jane Wells. When Wells reported last week that RBC Capital Markets had a list of 300 banks that could potentially fail, the firm quickly corrected that […]
Google earnings coverage missing currency impact
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs writes Friday about the lackluster performance of business journalists in covering Google’s recent earnings release because they failed to notice the impact of currency exchanges. Fuchs writes, “The New York Times had a cutsey lead about how Google and Microsoft, which also disappointed, were like two brainy nerds who failed […]
Post-Dispatch coverage of beer deal called thorough and exhaustive
Kenneth Klee of The Daily Deal applauds the coverage of InBev’s proposed deal with Anheuser-Busch that appeared in the hometown paper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Klee writes, “It’s one thing to work at a bank or a multinational corporation or a financial media company and advocate global free trade. It’s another to be a truck […]
