Just as I suspected
There’s a similar Web site to the one I posted below about Latin and South America business news that covers business news in the European Union. I did a quick Google search to find it. Here is some background: Founded in Luxembourg in 1997 by Managing Director Nick Prag, the site is managed and owned […]
Donald Trump and the New York Times
The anticipated Sunday piece in the New York Times examining Donald Trump and his business operations appeared today. If you want to read it, go here. In case you haven’t been following The Donald’s threats against the Old Gray Lady, he and his minions made thinly veiled threats of suing the newspaper for libel and […]
Hurricane coverage…again
It appears that business sections in Florida are gearing up for another round of stories on how a hurricane will affect the businesses and economies of their local areas. The Tampa Tribune wrote today about how technology can be used by companies to minimize the damage from hurricanes. Read that story here. It also ran […]
The Kansas City business blues
Just got back from Kansas City, where I talked at a Reynolds Center workshop at the Star. Two interesting discussions with the reporters there: 1. Until recently, the dollar amount of real estate transactions in Missouri was not a public record. It’s still not a public record in Kansas. I was shocked. It must be […]
NABJ awards for business reporting
The National Association of Black Journalists gave out two awards in the business news category on Saturday in its annual Salute to Excellence awards competition. The winners were: Newspaper – Business: Bob Norman, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, “Minority Report.â€? Norman’s 2004 piece is about how a hospital district commissioner in South Florida uses his minority […]
Coverage of Apple Computer
Is it too laudatory? Are we seeing the first signs of the media going back to its fawning ways of covering business from the 1990s when we look at how Apple Computer has been covered lately? That’s the conclusion of Jack Shafer, whose Slate column on the subject can be read here. I’m going to […]
Business across all news beats
I’ve been struck this week that, despite the efforts of many to understand the relevance of money and numbers, the importance of the business angle is still ignored at other desks in newspapers. This point hit me as I’ve been reading the local papers about the North Carolina State Fair, which started on Friday. A […]
Covering the loss of a city's major HQ
One of the things that I like to look at to gauge a newspaper’s strength in reporting about business is how it covers the story of when a major employer in the city is sold to another company and the headquarters is moved out of the state. If they’re aggressive in covering this story, then […]
WSJ to shrink in size
Dow Jones says it’s going to shrink the flagship newspaper of the chain in size to a traditional newspaper size. Read about it here. My interpretation of this move is that it sounds like the news hole will also be shrinking, so readers won’t be getting as much business news every day as they had […]
Fortune's 75th anniversary
The Washington Post’s Peter Carlson has a nice review of Fortune magazine’s 75th anniversary in this morning’s paper. You can read about it here. Peter looks at the good and the bad from the past 75 years. My favorite is the fact that the magazine didn’t think that FDR would be re-elected in 1940. Peter […]
