Forbes reporter hired to create biz journalism program at Ohio U.
Mark Tatge, the Midwest bureau chief for Forbes magazine, has been hired by Ohio University to create a business journalism program there. Tatge had been an adjunct instructor at Northwestern University while working at Forbes. He will be the EW Scripps Visiting Professor at Ohio University. Prior to joining Forbes, Tatge was a staff reporter […]
Forbes buys Clipmarks for online research
Business reporter Matt Marshall‘s VentureBeat blog is reporting that Forbes has purchased tech company Clipmarks, which lets you select text, photos or videos on web pages, then use Clipmark’s bookmarking feature to save the URL and your selected information to your Clipmarks folder. Eric Eldon of VentureBeat wrote, “It lets you choose only a phrase or […]
Fake Steve Jobs blog moves to Forbes web site
Dan Lyons, the Forbes senior editor who was exposed by the New York Times as being the author of the Fake Steve Jobs blog, has moved the blog to the Forbes web site, according to a story on the Forbes site. The story stated, “‘The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs,’ a satirical blog about Apple‘s […]
Fake Steve Jobs is Forbes senior editor
Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine, has come forth as the writer of the Fake Steve Jobs blog that has captured the imagination of techies around the world — and attracted Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates as readers. Brad Stone of The New York Times writes, “Mr. Lyons said he invented the Fake […]
Forbes needs a geography lesson
Jonathan Berr of BloggingStocks.com notes that a recent Forbes article mentions two cities in the United States that don’t exist. Berr wrote, “Though I hate to spoil today’s company holiday at Forbes, there is a bigger issue at stake here. In today’s age of instant communication, readers need to be more skeptical now than they […]
Forbes plans to sell HQ building in New York and move to new one
Keith Kelly of The New York Post writes Friday that business magazine Forbes is putting its headquarters building in Greenwich Village up for sale and will likely build a new building somewhere else in New York. Kelly wrote, “In a memo sent to Forbes Inc. employees yesterday, Chairman Steve Forbes said the company planned to […]
Business magazines underperform vs. industry in second quarter
Advertising dollars in 15 business-related magazines fell 5.5 percent in the second quarter of the year, while ad pages dropped 10.2 percent, according to data from the Publishers Information Bureau analyzed by Talking Biz News. In comparison, the overall magazine industry saw a 5.2 percent increase in ad dollars and just a 1.9 percent decline […]
Anniversary of Klebnikov murder recognized with ceremony
Former Forbes business journalist Paul Klebnikov‘s murder three years ago in Russia was recognized in a ceremony at a church in Moscow on Monday, according to a story from Joshua Yaffa of The International Herald Tribune. Yaffa wrote, “At the afternoon service at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the same church where Klebnikov’s memorial […]
New BusinessWeek executive editor to be named Monday
Ellen Pollock, a long-time reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, is expected to be named executive editor of BusinessWeek on Monday, writes Richard Perez-Pena of The New York Times. She will replace John Byrne, who became the top editor at BusinessWeek Online last month. Perez-Pena wrote, “For five years, Ms. Pollock has worked […]
Winners and losers in WSJ purchase by Murdoch
Stephen Foley of The Independent newspaper in London has his list of winners and losers once News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch completes his apparent purchase of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal. They include: Bloomberg, Reuters/Thomson: Thanks to the ‘Journal’ and the upcoming Fox Business Channel, News Corp is likely […]
