Biz media win Vanguard awards
The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal received awards in Advertising Age’s Media Vanguard Awards, announced Monday. The Financial Times won in the Global Spotlight category for its Alphaville blog. Advertising Age said, “Alphaville moves fast, tailors coverage to what the readers find interesting and doesn’t shy away from something truly foreign to markets […]
Bloomberg and editor Winkler, 20 years later
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson of the Financial Times profiles Bloomberg News editor in chief Matt Winkler as the news service celebrates 20 years in existence and looks to grow. Edgecliffe-Johnson writes, “There is ‘a dark, satanic-like struggle’ between information and misinformation, he says, and too many news organisations are financially hobbled, incapable of doing the rigorous reporting […]
FT continues to roll
Crain’s New York Business reporter Matthew Flamm reports that the Financial Times continues to thrive despite The Wall Street Journal‘s assertion that it would “crush” its rival. Flamm writes, “Over the past two years, the newspaper has emerged as a pioneer in the search for new business models for newspapers, building what some observers call […]
The FT has become hostile to bloggers
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon doesn’t like the new warning that appears when someone copies text from a Financial Times article to use on a blog or other online venue. Salmon writes, “Hilariously, even the FT’s own journalists are falling foul of this idiocy: on Thursday, in his Markets Live conversation, Neil Hume wound up pasting […]
FT names new DC bureau chief
The Financial Times announced Tuesday the appointment of Richard McGregor as Washington bureau chief, leading the FT’s coverage of American politics and managing its DC-based team of reporters. McGregor succeeds Edward Luce, who is taking leave to write a book. McGregor, currently deputy news editor for the FT based in London, will take up his […]
FT giving staffers money to buy tablets
Robert Andrews of PaidContent.org reports that the Financial Times is offering a $480 rebate to its staffers if they purchase a tablet such as an iPad. Andrews reports, “The FT, which has its own app on iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab, wants to encourage the tablet reading habit in its own staff first. It means […]
FT now accepting PayPal
Mark Sweney of the Guardian in London reports that the Financial Times is now accepting PayPal from digital subscribers. Sweney writes, “To date subscribers to FT.com have been limited to paying with major credit cards such as Visa, American Express and Mastercard. “FT.com, which revealed earlier this week that digital subscriptions have grown by 50% […]
Sales up 8 percent at Financial Times
Pearson Plc, the parent company of the Financial Times, reported its third quarter results on Monday and said that revenue has risen 7 percent for the first nine months of the year, while it expects growth of 10 percent for the full year. Mark Sweney of The Guardian in London writes, “Overall Pearson, which owns […]
Business journalism ripe for innovation
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Longtime business news organizations will continue to be hurt by new media that deliver the same content online, according to a panel of business journalism entrepreneurs Friday. “We routinely scoop our competition,” said Elizabeth MacBride, the founder and editor of RIABiz.com, which covers the independent investor advisor business. MacBride, who started […]
How the NYT's Dealbook missed a golden opportunity
Felix Salmon of Reuters writes Tuesday about how the New York Times’ Dealbook blog missed a story about Hewlett-Packard’s criticism of one of its business columnists, Joe Nocera, allowing its competition to beat them to the punch. Salmon writes, “A nice little scoop fell into Dealbook’s lap yesterday, when Ray Lane, the incoming chairman of […]
