Real estate journalists name fellows, new competition category
The National Association of Real Estate Editors awarded Bivins Fellowships to two mid-career journalists and unveiled a new category for its upcoming 59th annual competition. The winners of the NAREE Bivins Fellowship, named during the NAREE Summit in Orlando on Nov. 7, are freelance writer Lisa Prevost and Jeff Ostrowski, a real estate and business […]
Convincing Krugman to write about economics for the NYT
Howell Raines writes in the latest issue of Conde Nast Portfolio about New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman, who won a Nobel Prize earlier this year and whom Raines hired back in 1999. Raines writes, “Around 1999, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. told me he wanted to hire the first full-time economics […]
Bloomberg's Winkler: OK to write that country is in recession
Although the traditional definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of a decline in the gross domestic product — and that hasn’t happened yet — Bloomberg News editor in chief Matthew Winkler has told the wire service’s editorial staff that it’s permissable to write that the U.S. is in a recession. In his weekly […]
Sharesleuth to start companion site looking at bailout
Sharesleuth, the independent business journalism site run by former St. Louis Post-Dispatch business reporter Chris Carey and funded by billionaire Mark Cuban, plans to start another site called BailoutSleuth that will take a look at the government’s $700 billion funding of banks and other companies caught up in the economic turmoil. Carey writes, “The site […]
The evolution of a business news story from trade press to mainstream
The Deal executive editor Yvette Kantrow writes Sunday about how the story about the Treasury’s banking bailout scrapped a provision of the tax code that limited tax breaks financial institutions could take after buying loss-ridden banks has moved from the trade press to the mainstream media. Kantrow writes, “One of the earliest full-blown stories on […]
Public failed to respond to warnings from biz media about crisis
The public ignored warnings from the business media about an impending financial crisis, New York Times senior business writer Diana Henriques told a crowd at George Washington University, her alma mater. Evelyne Freiermuth of the Hachet writes, “One of the factors Henriques cited as possible reasons for the lack of public perception of the worsening […]
Biz media goes gaga for Paulson
Elinore Longobardi of Columbia Journalism Review wonders why the business media, including recent cover stories in Fortune and Bloomberg Markets, are praising Treasury secretary Hank Paulson. Longobardi writes, “But the fundamental problem with these pieces is deeper than a missed observation or clashing versions of the same person. The underlying problem is that they are […]
An Obama presidency and the business news desk
Editor’s Note: Talking Biz News asked Bloomberg News personal finance columnist John Wasik, the author of “The Merchant of Power” and 11 other books, to write about how a Barack Obama presidency might affect business news coverage, and stories that business journalists should be exploring. His response is below: When I met President-elect Barack Obama […]
The best beat on the business desk
Jonathan Cox, who covers the economy for The (Raleigh) News & Observer, spoke to my Economics Reporting class on Tuesday and argued that he has the best beat on the business news desk. Cox, who previously covered technology for the paper, says he enjoys covering the state’s economy because it allows him to look at […]
Post's Pearlstein is all over covering the economy
Harry Jaffe of the Washingtonian profiles Washington Post business columnist Steve Pearlstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year. Jaffe writes, “Pearlstein filed from Taos, flew to DC, and started pounding out columns. He was used to writing twice a week. Two became three, with a few hitting the front page. Disastrous news on […]
