More on Zannino
More important snippets from coverage of the change at the top at Dow Jones: 1. Richard Zannino, the incoming CEO of Dow Jones, told the Washington Post that he has no plans of getting rid of Barron’s, the company’s weekly business newspaper aimed at investors. The newspaper has lost 30 percent of its ads, according […]
No sale of Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal
That’s the message that Richard Zannino, the incoming CEO of Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones, is giving this morning in an article in the flagship paper. “I’m firmly committed to the independence of the company, but it’s ultimately not my decision,” he said. Zannino also expressed his commitment to the journalism practiced at the […]
An idea for business sections
Normon Solomon suggests that business sections in 2006 should add a labor page since most of the coverage is devoted to CEOs and companies. Here is the specific suggestion: “Daily newspaper editors: Just about every paper has a ‘Business’ section, where the focus is on CEOs, company managers, profit reports and big-time investors. But a […]
Nice to see this kind of enthusiasm
Here is a posting from someone who recently interviewed for a small-town business reporting job. It’s refreshing to see this kind of enthusiasm for someone just getting into the field of business reporting. “It’s a business reporter position for a little paper in Mt. Vernon which is actually north of me (I’m already north of […]
Has anything changed on Squawk Box other than the talking heads?
Just catching up on what I missed during the holidays, and I ran across this press release from CNBC trumpeting the new Squawk Box show. You can read the release here. I’ve read the release a couple of times, and I’ve looked at the show, and I still can’t figure out what’s new other than […]
Top 10 NYT mistakes for 2005 includes biz story
The Web site Timeswatch.org posted its top 10 mistakes made by the New York Times in 2005. Checking in at No. 6 was this business story that should have appeared in the business section sometime during the year: #6 Ignoring Air America The local New York Sun reported August 1 on the emerging scandal at […]
End of the year stock stories
Yes, it is that time of the year again. The end of the year stock story. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 2005 down slightly, while the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ were both up slightly. Virtually every business section I’ve looked at online this morning led with this story, and most of the business […]
Where does a daily paper run its stock story?
Having spent the last three days at my parent’s house in suburban Atlanta, I was able to read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on a regular basis once again. I worked on the business desk there from 1994-97, covering Home Depot and Coke. Not much has changed, but one thing that I did notice was that all […]
A great post-Christmas story
Yes, I am about to gag on all of the post-Christmas shopping stories that talk about the crowds on Dec. 26 and how retailers are trying to cut prices to entice customers. I think I have read the exact same story 100 times in the past 10 years. Looking for a different way to write […]
Nice Wal-Mart banking story
Maybe I have missed this story at other papers, but I read Tom Shean’s story in this morning’s Virginian-Pilot about Wal-Mart’s banking plans and was blown away by the revelations. You can read the full story here. What impressed me about this story was the great detail he got from digging through the regulatory filings […]
