More from The Sanity Check: Jim Cramer is mad now
I’ve been posting about how Overstock.com’s President Patrick Byrne has been having a public discourse with BusinessWeek e-commerce editor Timothy Mullaney by posting his answers to Mullaney’s questions on a Web site called www.thesanitycheck.com. The web site was created to battle the threat of naked short sellers on the market and to fight its belief […]
UPDATE: BusinessWeek reporter calls and is mad; Overstock head responds on Internet again
The exchange between BusinessWeek e-commerce editor Tim Mullaney and Overstock.com president Patrick Byrne continued on late Friday, with Mullaney apparently calling the company’s Salt Lake headquarters upset that Byrne had posted his responses to Mullaney’s e-mail questions on the Internet. Apparently Mullaney didn’t learn his lesson the first time. Byrne has again responded online, on […]
The joys of being a business reporter
Got to love this small item in the Albany Times-Union this morning that begins with the headline “Realizing the synergy,” that reads: “One of the joys of being a business reporter is translating the industry jargon into English. “A recent local software company that describes itself as ‘a leading provider of fulfillment and integration solutions […]
Another one bites the dust: Newsday becomes big latest paper to cut stock listings
Newsday joins the Chicago Tribune and Providence Journal, which both announced in the past week that they were cutting the stock listings provided in the newspaper on a daily basis. Newsday made its announcement in this morning’s newspaper. Again, rising newsprint costs are being blamed. Here is what Newsday said: “We’re reducing our stock and […]
Falling down on the job on labor coverage
That’s the headline this morning in the Los Angeles Times’ opinion piece by Peter Dreier, a professor of politics and director of the urban and environmental policy program at Occidental College. The colum is in response to the Times’ four-part series earlier this week on the United Farm Workers that was highly critical of the […]
NYT biz section view of the world
TheDeal.com is a web site that many business journalists look at for information about mergers and acquisition news. But it also has a regular feature called Media Maneuvers, and on Friday it critiqued a New York Times’ business section profile of Michael Kopper, the former Enron executive who was the first to plead guilty in […]
The pros and cons of companies talking about M&A talks
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has an excellent article in today’s newspaper about the pros and cons of a company talking about whether it is involved in negotiations for a merger or acquisition. The paper had a local company that was rumored to be in such a deal. Repeateadly, apparently, the company said it didn’t […]
BusinessWeek, a CEO and the Internet as a medium
How strange is this? Tim Mullaney, the e-business editor at BusinessWeek, sends a detailed and exhaustive list of questions to Scott Blevins, Overstock.com’s director of public relations, via e-mail on Tuesday. The questions are intended for chairman and President Patrick Byrne and other company executives. Byrne responds — I do not know when, but obviously […]
Barron's updates its Web site
Barron’s, the weekly business newspaper published by Dow Jones, has revamped its Web site, adding more daily coverage aimed at investors and some other features. The additions include these features: * Inside Scoop — The only daily column that tracks stock purchases and sales by corporate insiders; * Hot Research AM and PM — Market-moving […]
Soft coverage of tech from the Geek Fest
I have never been a big fan of the Consumer Electronics Show, and saw it first-hand when it was in Atlanta in the 1990s and I was a business reporter for the Journal-Constitution. It seemed to be a way for the computer and technology companies to get free publicity. That has apparently continued, says William […]
