Bandler says goodbye to WSJ
James Bandler, who won a Pulitzer Prize at The Wall Street Journal reporting on the backdating of stock options, said goodbye to his colleagues on Wednesday as he is leaving for a job at Fortune. Jeff Bercovici of Conde Nast Portfolio has his farewell e-mail that praised the paper’s investigative stories. In it, Bandler wrote, […]
Judging Fortune by its stock picks
Jossip takes a look back at the stock picks made by Fortune in its December 2007 issue and compares their performance to the overall market. Jossip wrote, “Throw digits on the cover and travelers rushing through the airport and moms browsing through Barnes & Noble are more likely to pick up your rag. Which explains […]
The biz media and the CEO as celebrity
Davdi Weidner of Marketwatch writes Thursday about how business journalists made CEOs celebrities, and how some of these CEOs now need to earn their celebrity status. Weidner writes, “Until a few years ago, the American chief executive used to be largely anonymous. “Back in the 1970s, when stock ownership was mostly the province of sophisticated […]
Quittner leaving Fortune for Time
Josh Quittner, the former editor of Business 2.0 who went to Fortune when the former folded last year, is headed to Time magazine, writes Keith Kelly of the New York Post. Kelly writes, Business 2.0 “ended up being one of the more expensive magazine failures in Time Inc. history, losing more than $100 million before […]
11 out of 16 biz magazines post first-quarter decline in ad sales
A majority of the 17 business magazines posted a decline in ad sales in the first three months of 2007, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America analyzed Monday by Talking Biz News. Eleven magazines saw declines, with five posting increases. Conde Nast Portfolio did not publish in the first three months of […]
Pulitzer winner Bandler leaving WSJ for Fortune
James Bandler, a Wall Street Journal reporter who last year won a Pulitzer Prize as part of the team that wrote about the backdating of stock options, is leaving the paper for a job at Fortune. Bandler will become an editor at large at the magazine, he told Talking Biz News in an e-mail. He […]
CNBC cashes in on the market
Fortune magazine writer Jessi Hempel writes in the latest issue about what makes business news cable channel CNBC so successful. Hempel writes, “At CNBC, broadcast veteran Mark Hoffman has added edge and emotion to a network that was heavily criticized in the run-up to the tech bust for its rah-rah business take on the news. […]
Now CNBC's turn for Fortune treatment
The Jossip web site reports Wednesday that Fortune magazine is working on an in-depth story about business news cable network CNBC, just months after new rival Fox Business Network graced the cover. Jossip reports, “When that article hit, Kevin Goldman (then the VP of CNBC publicity and a former Wall Street Journal report) fired off […]
The wizard of covering start-up companies
Josh Quittner of Fortune writes in the latest issue about Michael Arrington and his TechCrunch blog, which covers start-up tech companies. Quittner writes, “That’s because, like any business, blogs must keep growing to thrive. And Arrington intends to thrive. The site brought in $800,000 in 2006 and $3 million in 2007 – and the growth […]
Friedman is rooting for Fast Company
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman writes Friday that he hopes business magazine Fast Company can survive and thrive while competing against bigger biz glossies such as BusinessWeek and Fortune. Friedman wrote, “When John Byrne, who now leads BusinessWeek’s Internet effort, was editing Fast Company, it was recognized as a serious, creative publishing force. “It still […]
