Loeb Award finalists to be telecast on Monday
UCLA Anderson School of Management will announce the 2006 finalists of the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism via a video link on Monday beginning at noon Eastern Time. Judy D. Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management and chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation, will announce this year’s […]
Florida newspaper wants readers to contribute items
The Charlotte Sun-Herald newspaper in southwest Florida is asking for business owners to submit short items for its Biz Bits section that runs every Friday. Sounds a lot like citizen journalism. Business editor Bob Fliss writes in Thursday’s newspaper: “Biz Bits, which runs every Friday, is our latest attempt to add more variety to our […]
Biz journalism program at SMU on hold for a year
I had a brief e-mail conversation with Tony Pederson, the Belo Distinguished Chair in Journalism, at Southern Methodist University, who told me that the journalism program there has ended its current search for a person to hold its new William O’Neil Chair in Business Journalism and will apply for applicants again near the end of […]
Cavuto lauds Kiplinger's Frailey column
Fox News business anchor Neil Cavuto is praising another business journalist. He enjoyed reading Kiplinger’s editor Fred Frailey’s most recent column, which asked readers a set of 12 questions. Cavuto writes, “Frailey talks about his young and otherwise very healthy brother-in-law, Billy, who dropped dead on the golf course of a heart arrhythmia earlier this […]
What Rukeyser could teach, and has taught TV biz reporters
MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman notes that there are some television business journalists who could learn by watching tapes of former Wall Street Week host Louis Rukeyser, and some who obviously have learned a thing or two from the recently deceased business journalism pioneer. Friedman writes, “CNBC would virtually perform a public service by making Dylan Ratigan […]
Changes to Loeb Award judges
The G. and R. Loeb Foundation and UCLA Anderson School of Management announced on Monday changes to the final judging panel of the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Named as new final judges are: Stephen J. Adler, editor-in-chief, BusinessWeek; Amanda Bennett, editor and vice president, The Philadelphia Inquirer; Jane Berentson, managing […]
Chasing Mad Money picks
Lynn O’Shaughnessy of the Copley News Service has a story on the wire about how chasing Jim Cramer’s picks from his “Mad Money” show might not be the best thing for investors. O’Shaugnessy writes, “What the researchers documented was an eagerness by investors to swallow Cramer’s bait. The show is recorded 30 minutes after the […]
The media world is changing; business news needs to change as well
Joe Garofili of the San Francisco Chronicle has a nice story in this morning’s newspaper about how the sale of the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times from Knight Ridder to McClatchy to MediaNews all in the span of weeks is symblomatic of the changes occurring in the media world. One of the […]
Rukeyser being remembered with two TV specials
Louis Rukeyser, the business journalist whose “Wall Street Week” show aired on TV for nearly 35 years, will be remembered this weekend by two special shows. Rukeyser died earlier this week from a rare bone cancer at the age of 73. CNBC is airing a one-hour special, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, about Rukeyser on Friday […]
Target closes annual meeting to journalists
Target, the large retailer, has joined a number of other companies in closing its annual meeting to reporters, according to an article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune by reporter Chris Serres. Serres writes, “In the past, the company allowed members of the media to ask questions of senior executives in a briefing after the meeting. “Brookter […]
