Reuters, Dow Jones not similar
Louis Hau, the media reporter for Forbes.com, writes Wednesday that despite both Reuters Group and Dow Jones & Co. being best known for their business journalism, the companies — which are both currently acquisition targets — are much different. Hau wrote, “Reuters is best known as a news agency, but the news operations accounted for […]
New Loeb Award final judges announced
The G. and R. Loeb Foundation and UCLA Anderson School of Management announce changes Monday to the final judging panel of the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Named as new final judges are: Matthew Bishop, bureau chief, The Economist; Douglas Frantz, managing editor, Los Angeles Times; Chrystia Freeland, U.S. managing editor, […]
CJR's Audit needs to come clean about past
Forbes.com columnist Gary Weiss writes that it’s nice that the Columbia Journalism Review blog The Audit has praised the Wall Street Journal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series about backdating of stock options. But the blog — under a different writer — needs to admit that it criticized the articles when they first appeared. Weiss wrote, “Reading the […]
The biz magazine cover story as contrarian indicator
Mark Hulbert writes on Marketwatch about a study by some University of Virginia professors that assesses whether a company being on the cover of a major business magazine such as BusinessWeek, Forbes or Fortune means that it’s time to sell the stock. Hulbert wrote, “The professors analyzed those cover stories in Business Week, Fortune and […]
March good for biz magazines, bad for personal finance titles
March saw an increase almost across the board for mainstream business magazines in terms of ad revenue and ad pages, but decreases for the personal finance glossy titles, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America. Leading the way was Inc. magazine, which saw a 39.3 percent increase in ad revenue to $7.5 million […]
Forbes purchases Investopedia
Forbes announced Wednesday that it had acquired Investopedia.com, the most comprehensive and frequently visited Website for investor education on the Internet. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Edmonton. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. In a release, Forbes President and CEO Steve Forbes stated, “When Forbes announced our partnership with Elevation […]
New 30 under 30 named
NewsBios announced the 2007 NewsBios 30 Under 30 Award recipients. This select group of journalists showcases up-and-coming business and financial reporters and editors. NewsBios first honored young journalists for their exceptional work in 1987 and has since bestowed the awards in 18 of the past 20 years. (The awards were not issued in either 2005 […]
Portfolio hopes to succeed despite those who want it to fail
New York magazine writer Mark Fass takes a look at the upcoming debut of Conde Nast Portfolio and examines all of the hurdles that it has had to overcome. Fass wrote, “But given the dark cloud over the industry right now, a lot of her competitors are hoping that Lipman will fail—the Schadenfreude Squad, Portfolio […]
Tension building at Forbes?
The New York Post’s Keith Kelly is reporting Wednesday that tensions are high at business magazine Forbes between president Jim Berrien and the venture capital investors who bought a stake in the operation last year. Kelly wrote, “The Forbes family still controls the company and has no intention of forcing Berrien out, the spokeswoman said. […]
What's behind Portfolio's power?
TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow wonders on the Dealscape blog about the power behind the new Conde Nast Portfolio magazine — even though it hasn’t published its first issue yet. Kantrow wrote, “In recent weeks, it has been cited as the impetus behind Forbes’ plan to launch a business magazine aimed at women (by the […]
