Biz magazines ad sales sluggish in January
Advertising sales for business magazines in January continued to be sluggish, with many of the major publications falling, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America. This comes off a 2006 in which the revenue for the 14 biz glossies was down slightly and pages were off as well, Ad sales for the Economist, […]
The Motley Fool is a happening place
I spent Friday at the headquarters of The Motley Fool in Alexandria, Va., and came away impressed with what I heard and what I saw. I was in the room when company co-founder Tom Gardner spoke for about 30 minutes to a group of about 15 writers for its web site. Gardner told them about […]
Forbes wants to sell American Heritage
The New York Post’s Keith Kelly is reporting that Forbes has put its American Heritage magazine on the block. Kelly wrote, “The magazine is down a dozen employees who have been promised jobs elsewhere in Forbes, said a spokeswoman. “Timothy Forbes, the chief operating officer of Forbes Inc., said the company expects to see a […]
Let's get to the real issue behind Mariagate
Forbes.com columnist Dennis Kneale noted Friday that the coverage of the Maria Bartiromo/Citigroup jet controversy has taken business journalists away from what they should be writing about — the problems at the New York-based bank. Kneale wrote, “And we are told, as the Journal intoned, with an upraised eyebrow, that Maria Bartiromo and Todd Thomson […]
Change in access at FT web site?
Louis Hau at Forbes noted that the Financial Times, which has typically made most of its editorial content available online to subscribers only, has recently begun offering more free access on its Internet site. Hau wrote, “The Pearson-owned Times typically provides only a limited selection of free full-length articles at FT.com, requiring a $110 annual […]
Zannino: Dow Jones will focus more on online offerings
Dow Jones CEO Richard Zannino, speaking at the Software & Information Industry Association conference, said Tuesday he expects the company’s print operations to account for less than 60 percent of total revenue this year, and that the publisher of The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s will eventually derive less than half its revenue from print. […]
Weiss: I don't see the problem with Bartiromo's flight
Forbes.com columnist Gary Weiss thinks that the controversy surrounding CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo taking a plane trip with a Citigroup exec on its corporate jet is way overblown. Weiss wrote, “Maria may be, well….. a bit too close to one of the companies she covers. That, however, is hardly a hanging offense in journalism and […]
How to play business journalists like a fiddle
Someone pointed out a Q&A interview between Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Forbes writer Victoria Murphey Barret to me today, but I’m just now getting around to reading it. The interview was posted this morning, and it includes comments from Benioff on how to present a company to the media. Benioff provides the following suggestions […]
The online war between a CEO and a biz journalist
Dan Mitchell of the New York Times takes note of the increasing online flaming going on between Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne and business journalist Gary Weiss in the weekly “What’s Online” column. Mitchell wrote, “Entries on message boards devoted to discussing Overstock.com asserted that Mr. Byrne was behind an anonymously written Web site, AntiSocialMedia.net, that […]
Weiss: Hedge fund coverage needs to explain itself
Forbes.com columnist Gary Weiss pointed out on his blog that stories in the past two weeks from various news sources have printed contradictory numbers regarding the performance of hedge funds in 2006. Weiss noted that Reuters reported that a hedge fund index from Credit Suisse reported that the average fund had a return of 13.8 […]
