Contradictory stories
Very rarely in business journalism do you see an instance of one prominent media outlet reporting on a business story and then another prominent media outlet reporting on the same story but essentially saying that the other media outlet got it wrong. But that’s the case with the coverage of money manager Private Capital Management’s […]
LA Times and Chicago Trib considering cutting stock listings
The story was in the Wall Street Journal this morning. You can read it here. This does not surprise me. Many newspapers have cut their stock listings in the past few years, and some papers only run the stocks that are widely held in their area. But the big metropolitan papers have always run a […]
NY Review of Books criticizes business journalism
In the Dec. 15, 2005 issue of the New York Review of Books, which is now available online, there is a commentary by Michael Massing called The Press: The Enemy Within. The thesis of the commentary is that much of the media’s problems are due to their own problems. When it comes to business journalism, […]
The Oil Industry
I have been harping on the blog for the past few weeks about how the business press hasn’t been aggressively covering the looming oil crisis — and I’m not talking about rising prices at the pump. I am talking about the fact that we’ve gotten close to using up half of the planet’s supply of […]
Covering the Xbox 360 frenzy
The CJR Daily blog has an excellent analysis of how some business media didn’t just take what Microsoft was spoonfeeding them in covering the debut of the new Xbox 360 game console. You can read it here. If I can add in my own unscientific 2 cents, it would be this: I have two boys, […]
Shopping stories today
Here is a compilation of day after Thanksgiving shopping stories that I found online this evening: 1. CNN.com’s headline focused on the bargains that retailers were already offering in its story here. 2. The CBS News story online also focused on the bargains as well as estimates from some of the largest retailers that crowds […]
The country's best economics reporters
As David Warsh, editor of economicprincipals.com, so eloquently puts it, “It may not be a golden age of economic journalism. The traditional means of support — advertising — has been too undependable for that, thanks to a cataract of technological change. But there are plenty of new rafts on the river. There’s even reason to […]
Christmas retail stories
In six days, the traditional Christmas shopping season will begin on the Friday after Thanksgiving. What this means is that every retail reporter on every business news desk in the country will be trolling the malls and looking for new and unique ways to cover the biggest five weeks of the retail season every year. […]
Business journalism and the K-R bidding
In the letter sent to newspaper chain from Knight-Ridder alumns, a member of the business journalism community and SABEW — Washington & Lee’s Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism Pam Luecke — is among the signers who say they will nominate a slate of new directors for the company’s board. The Knight-Ridder papers have been all […]
The Empty Tank takes a shot at business journalists
It only took until page six of The Empty Tank, the book I mentioned on Sunday, for the author to take a shot at business journalists for downplaying the problems with the supply of oil and gas on the planet. “Most business journalists” are lumped together with “almost all oil companies, governments and their agencies, […]
