More on the Portfolio.com relaunch
American City Business Journals, the new operator of Portfolio.com, released some interesting details Monday about its relaunch of the business news site. Portfolio.com’s series The Great Global Business Adventure, now underway, will run for a full year and is the product of embedding a reporter with a group of business owners exploring international expansion. Another […]
Portfolio.com reborn for small biz owners
Stephanie Clifford of the New York Times writes Monday about how Portfolio.com has been remade under the direction of American City Business Journals after the print magazine attached to the site closed earlier this year. Clifford writes, “Now, Portfolio.com, which had been sophisticated and sardonic, is being reinvented as helpful and earnest. Mr. Bradbury wants […]
Inaugural Portfolio cover photo reappears as book cover
Leon Neyfakh of The New York Observer writes about how the photo that graced the cover of the first issue of the now-closed Conde Nast Portfolio magazine two years ago is coming back as the cover of Jonathan Lethem’s novel “Chronic City.” Neyfakh writes, “The eye-catching photo, taken from the 86th-floor observation deck of the […]
Colarusso joins Bloomberg TV
Dan Colarusso is joining Bloomberg TV as its new managing editor for U.S. television. He’ll be responsible for the content and editorial direction for the network in the U.S. The former managing editor, John Meehan, was let go earlier this year as part of a huge purge at Bloomberg’s TV and radio operations. Prior to joining Bloomberg […]
Portfolio.com relaunches
J. Jennings Moss, the editor of Portfolio.com, writes about the relaunch of the Web site of the former business magazine. The site is now being run by American City Business Journals. Moss writes, “We’ll profile the executives and companies that rule the NYSE and Nasdaq, as well as the entrepreneurs who are creating the next […]
NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg News, Charlotte Observer among Loeb winners
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Miami Herald and the Charlotte Observer were among the winners of the annual Gerald Loeb Awards, considered the Pulitzer Prizes of business journalism. In the large newspaper category, The Times won for a series called “The Reckoning,” which explored the causes behind the […]
Loeb Award picks for tonight
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The Gerald Loeb Awards, considered the Pulitzer Prizes of business journalism, are being handed out at a dinner in New York on Monday night. Here are my selections. I am basing them on what I have read in the past year, as well as the reputation of the journalists and publications […]
More than 250 business journalism jobs lost in first six months
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE More than 250 business journalists lost their jobs due to media closings, layoffs or newsroom buyouts in the first six months of 2009, according to an analysis of the industry by the Carolina Business News Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The layoffs include the entire staff […]
Portfolio stories ending up elsewhere
Keith Kelly of the New York Post writes Friday about how stories slated to run in the now-closed Conde Nast Portfolio are appearing in other publications. Kelly writes, “An article about the sons of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff by David Margolick was originally set to run in Joanne Lipman‘s Portfolio, but when S.I. Newhouse […]
Three of top 10 media events in past decade were biz journalism
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman, celebrating his 10th year as a media writer, compiles his list of the top 10 most intriguing events in the industry in the past decade, and three of them are business journalism related. Here they are: 3. The acquisition of Dow Jones: News Corp. accomplished the unthinkable by scooping up the company […]
