Dow Jones workers in Jersey City vote to join union

Employees of Dow Jones & Co., the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Dow Jones Newswires, in Jersey City have voted to join the union that already represents hundreds of business journalists at the company. Among the Dow Jones operations with employees in Jersey City are Dow Jones Newsletters and Dow […]

Biz media faces the music

TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs writes Friday that the business media’s coverage of Starbucks annual meeting showed how well an executive can get journalists to write what he or she wants. Instead of focusing on the issues at Starbucks outlined in a recent memo from chairman Howard Schultz, the business media decided to write about the coffee […]

CNBC's Goldman burned by source?

CNBC Silicon Valley bureau chief Jim Goldman was likely burned by a source when he reported earlier this week that Motorola was going to purchase Palm, according to Eric Buscemi on BloggingStocks.com. To date, no deal has been announced. Buscemi wrote, “More and more information pointed to Motorola as the likely acquirer. Ed Zander, Motorola’s […]

Miami to publish special section on small biz on Sunday

The Miami Herald will publish a special section on small business for the first time on Sunday, according to a column from executive business editor Lisa Gibbs. Gibbs wrote, “Last year’s Cereal Bowl series, which followed three young entrepreneurs who opened a Coral Gables cereal restaurant, proved enormously popular with readers and became a case […]

Take court rulings with grain of salt

TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs reads the coverage in Friday morning’s papers about Microsoft Corp. losing a ruling on MP3 patents and being asked to pay $1.52 billion in damages and wonders what all of the fuss is about. Fuchs wrote, “The Washington Post goes all subjective on The Business Press Maven, announcing that ‘Microsoft Loses Big […]

Drug company slams biz reporter, but doesn't give specifics

TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs writes that one of the financial news web site’s writers, Adam Feuerstein, has been the subject of an inflammatory press release from a company that wished to rebut one of his articles. The only problem, Fuchs notes, is that the release doesn’t specify what was wrong with the story. Fuchs wrote, “Feuerstein […]

Covering your own company

LA Weekly’s Luke Thompson has a story Thursday about what it’s like to be Jim Rainey of the Los Angeles Times, who has been assigned the job of covering the paper’s parent company and its discussions to sell itself or remain a separate business. Thompson wrote, “Rainey defends his frequent use of anonymous quotes from […]

Biz media miss the obvious with Dell

TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs wants to know why the business press coverage of Michael Dell returning to the CEO spot of his computer company elicited no coverage about how easy it’s going to be for him to turn the company around. Fuchs wrote, “Recently, Dell announced a return to the head spot at his company, and […]

NYTimes reporter won't testify in drug company case

The New York Sun is reporting that New York Times reporter Alex Berenson will not testify in a case involving internal drug company documents he obtained and wrote stories about. Joseph Goldstein wrote, “The judge, Jack Weinstein of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, had asked the reporter, Alex Berenson, to testify voluntarily about how he […]

Bloomberg corrects story; IR expert impressed

Dominic Jones, who writes a blog on the IRWebReport site about issues affecting business news and how it’s disseminating, came away impressed after a Bloomberg reporter corrected a story written from a misleading Nasdaq release. Jones wrote, “Bloomberg impressed me by how they handled this. I got two emails from [Bloomberg reporter] Edgar Ortega keeping […]