Does anybody have a problem with these ethics?
From Brand Republic: “LONDON – The Financial Times has produced a BT-sponsored special report using emerging online media on the topic of how business reacts to new technology. “Written articles as well as a video and podcast from the ‘Competing in the New Economy’ report are available from the FT’s website, with the podcast also […]
Retailer threatens to pull ads over upcoming story
This item was in the New York Post this morning: “Saks Fifth Avenue’s attempts to strong-arm New York magazine into killing a planned story about the retailer by threatening to pull future advertising have fallen flat. “New York is planning to go ahead with the story, albeit without Saks’ cooperation, sources told The Post’s Suzanne […]
An Enron employee's goal: 100 interviews
Charlie Prestwood, a former Enron employee, gushed when TheDeal.com’s Yvette Kantrow called him. “You’re my 97th interview!” he exclaimed. Prestwood wants to be interviewed 100 times by different media outlets so that he can tell the story of how his $1.3 million retirement nest egg went up in flames with Enron went down. The beginning […]
Yet another story about Jim Cramer
David Carr, writing in this morning’s New York Times, takes up the subject of Mad Money host Jim Cramer, who has also been profiled in recent weeks by the Philadelphia Inquirer and Dallas Morning News. Carr writes, “At a time when people will not pick up finance magazines with a set of tongs and too […]
Smaller newspapers are business blogging as well
Although many large metropolitan newspapers such as the San Jose Mercury News, Houston Chronicle and Denver Post have business reporters or columnists blogging, I’ve discovered that some smaller papers are also getting into the act. At The Herald in Everett, Wash., just north of Seattle, they have had two business-related blogs for the past two […]
Dallas Morning News profile of Jim Cramer
Mad Money host Jim Cramer was profiled by the Dallas Morning News this morning. The article notes: “Although he makes money for people, he is not without detractors. A former employee, Nicholas Maier, wrote a book that criticized Mr. Cramer for pumping up stocks by feeding rumors to CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo. He has denied those […]
CNBC rival to be launched by Fox by end of the year
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch plans to launch a CNBC rival by the end of the year, he tells Newsweek’s senior writer Johnnie Roberts in an exclusive interview. “We’re in pretty intense discussions with the biggest cable companies, and making quite considerable progress,” says Murdoch. “You can expect something fairly soon.” The interview can be […]
A business editor talking to his readers
Most business editors at daily newspapers get the requests by the dozen on a daily basis: How do I get a story about my company in your business section? Grag Kratz, business editor of the Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City, tried to lower the number of those requests by explaining to his readers […]
Humor in the Wall Street Journal
Sanjay Parekh, a blogger and founder of Digital Envoy, was amused on Friday to find some humor in a Wall Street Journal article about Burger King’s IPO. Parekh wrote: “In an article (subscription required) about the upcoming IPO of Burger King, the Wall Street Journal sent out a snippet of how the private equity firms […]
Neil Cavuto on Friday's unemployment numbers
The blog News Hounds critiqued Neil Cavuto’s coverage of the unemployment numbers on Friday as being extremely pro-Bush while other media outlets seemed to ignore the statistics that showed a four-year low. News Hounds wrote, “Cavuto would have his audience believe that the numbers prove that the Bush administration has a steady, knowledgeable hand on […]
