Fox Business Network hires more reporters
Fox Business Network named Tracy Byrnes, Robert Gray and Ashley Webster as reporters, and named Elizabeth MacDonald as stocks editor, according to a Thursday release. In making the announcement, Fox News executive vice president Kevin Magee said, “We are pleased to strengthen our coverage of worldwide business events, the markets and breaking news from the New York Stock Exchange […]
Business journalism was a tough trade
The Economist remembers former Forbes editor Jim Michaels, who died last week at the age of 86. Michaels was editor of the magazine from 1961 to 1999. The Economist wrote, “Tiny though he was, he was terrifying. Business journalism, for him, was a tough trade. When writers joined they were given a tape recorder for […]
Forbes ME Kneale joins CNBC
Dennis Kneale, who has been managing editor at Forbes, is leaving the magazine to become media and technology editor on CNBC, the business cable network announced Thursday. He starts Oct. 15 — the same day Fox Business Network launches. The release stated, “‘Dennis has 25 years of experience in media and technology. He’s one of […]
Michaels made Malcolm Forbes possible
Alex Ben Block of Hollywood Today writes about his two tours of duty at Forbes under former editor Jim Michaels, who died last week and, Block writes, made the success of Malcolm Forbes possible. Block wrote, “His experience in India was not only a landmark in Michael’s career as a reporter; but it was also who […]
The man who changed business journalism
Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times notes in her weekend column that Warren Buffett called recently deceased Forbes editor Jim Michaels the best business editor he had ever seen, and she notes some of his best edits/comments about stories written for the magazine. They included: “If I can’t stay awake editing this, how can […]
Remembering Jim Michaels of Forbes
Stephen Miller of The Wall Street Journal takes a look back Saturday at the career of former Forbes editor Jim Michaels, who died Tuesday. Miller wrote, “Mr. Michaels ran investigative features attacking trial lawyers and the National Education Association. Forbes began grading mutual funds and publishing lists of executive compensation and of the wealthiest Americans. […]
Michaels was a paradoxical, ruthless leader
Peter Brimelow of Marketwatch remembers Thursday what it was like to work for former Forbes editor Jim Michaels, who died Tuesday at the age of 86. Brimelow wrote, “Michaels when I knew him in his last decades at Forbes came across as a nice little old man. But he was in fact ruthless to the point […]
Appreciating the career of Jim Michaels
Forbes has a nice review Wednesday evening of the career of former editor Jim Michaels and what made him a special business journalist. The non-bylined story stated, “After a stint at The Buffalo News, Michaels joined what was then a pure investment magazine. He wrote about mutual funds. Seeing a future in what was then […]
Sloan remembers Michaels as a great editor
Fortune senior editor at large Allan Sloan remembers Wednesday what former Forbes editor Jim Michaels — who died Tuesday at the age of 86 — taught him about business journalism during his two stints at the magazine. Sloan wrote, “Unlike many of his competitors, Michaels didn’t particularly lionize corporate chieftains. His focus was on representing small investors’ […]
Former Forbes editor Michaels is dead
Former Forbes editor James Michaels, who ran the business magazine for nearly four decades, has died at the age of 86 from pneumonia, according to a story on the magazine’s web site. The story, written by Steve, Bob, Kip and Tim Forbes, said, “When he took the helm of Forbes in 1961–he had joined the […]
