Covering the Consumer Price Index
Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute has a great primer Tuesday on the dos and don’t to covering the Consumer Price Index, which is scheduled to be released Wednesday morning. Tompkins wrote, “The area in which you live also can affect your price experiences. You shouldn’t expect the national or a regional CPI always to […]
CNBC adds new market report
With the stock market off to its worst year-to-date start since 1991 — a recession year — CNBC introduced Monday a series of new special reports, “The CNBC Edge,” to help viewers. While there is debate among economic experts about whether or not the U.S. is technically in a recession — or headed into one — it […]
CNBC’s Liesman on covering the economy
As CNBC‘s senior economics reporter, Steve Liesman reports on all aspects of the economy including the Federal Reserve Bank and major economic indicators. He appears on “Squawk Box” as well as other CNBC programs throughout the day. Liesman joined CNBC from The Wall Street Journal where he served as a senior economics reporter covering monetary […]
Real estate reporting competition open for entries
Categories and cash awards for the National Association of Real Estate Editors’ newly expanded 58th Annual Journalism Awards Competition have increased by more than a third. The entry deadline is Feb. 20, 2008, for work published or aired in 2007. More than 70 awards in 35 categories — including seven for online journalists and an […]
WSJ.com launches new feature aimed at Chinese readers
The Wall Street Journal Online launched Tuesday a new multimedia feature aimed at Chinese and international readers. ‘Beautiful Country,’ by Li Yuan, describes how American business people communicate, network and make deals — and how these activities tend to vary from the ways business is conducted in China. ‘Beautiful Country,’ the Chinese name for America, comprises […]
It's the economy, stupid
Columbia Journalism Review sent out an e-mail to subscribers and readers Wednesday announcing the relaunch of its Campaign Desk to critique media coverage of the 2008 presidential election. But noticeably absent from the e-mail was any mention of looking at coverage of the economy — like housing prices, or the subprime mortgage mess, or the […]
Real estate coverage: Negative news, or PR spin?
Eugene Meyer of Real Estate Magazine takes a look Wednesday at whether the business media has been overly negative in covering the real estate market. Meyer wrote, “The lead paragraph on the National Association of Realtors’ Nov. 21 release reported that home sales prices actually rose in most metropolitan markets. The Associated Press lead, however, […]
"Disappointing" vs. "dramatic" holiday sales
Nathan Burchfiel of The Business & Media Institute writes that some reporters covering the holiday retail sales seem to be using the words “dramatic” and “disappointing” too loosely. Burchfiel wrote, “According to MasterCard SpendingPulse, retail sales were up 3.6 percent during the holiday season – 2.4 percent excluding gas prices. But because it’s not as […]
I always hated Jimmy Stewart
Those who know me know that I am a sucker for dry and sarcastic humor, as well as parodies. I’ve always had an attraction to the music of Wierd Al Yankovic. So I am sucked in when Brian O’Connor, the money and life editor at the Detroit News, writes a spoof of the old Christmas movie […]
Hoffman: CNBC owned sub-prime mortgage coverage
CNBC president Mark Hoffman sent a message to employees on Friday in which he congratulated them on a great year and gloated about its coverage. The memo was posted on the TVNewser blog. Hoffman said, “It is impossible to mention every accomplishment in the year ending, but for starters in Business Day in the United […]
