Arango leaves Fortune for Times, which strikes out with WSJ reporters

John Koblin of The New York Observer reports Wednesday that Fortune reporter Tim Arango is leaving the magazine for a job on the New York Times business desk to cover media companies. However, The Times was unsuccessful in luring reporters from The Wall Street Journal. Koblin wrote, “His arrival will come as a relief to […]

Some business media more impressive than others

Syndicated columnist Malcolm Berko advises a reader pare his business media offerings down to just a few publications when looking for investment information. He likes The Economist, Fortune, BusinessWeek and Forbes, among others, but doesn’t like Investor’s Business Daily and The Wall Street Journal. Berko wrote, “Business Week presents topical information, well-written with enough depth […]

The tech blog wars

Fortune magazine’s Michael Copeland writes about the battle — which has gotten extremely competitive — between technology news blogs Gizmodo and Engadget. Copeland wrote, “In less than a year the upstart eclipsed Gizmodo; in September, Engadget had just under ten million unique visitors, compared with Gizmodo’s eight million. Today venture capitalists estimate each site to be […]

Fortune to launch in India; other markets to follow

Meg Tirrell of Bloomberg News writes about Fortune‘s launch of an edition in India next year and notes that other editions are likely to follow. Tirrell wrote, “Fortune is seeking readers and advertisers overseas to offset falling advertising revenue in the U.S. The magazine’s ad sales dropped 12 percent in the first nine months of […]

Merrill Lynch may sell its Bloomberg stake

Fortune senior editor at large Carol Loomis writes Thursday that Merrill Lynch is considering selling its 20 percent stake in Bloomberg LP, which operates a business news service. Loomis wrote, “Talking to Wall Street analysts about the company’s abysmal third-quarter results, CEO Stanley O’Neal and chief financial officer Jeff Edwards said they would be looking […]

A lawsuit waiting to happen

Jim Ledbetter of Fortune writes on its Browser technology blog about CNBC‘s slogan and wonders whether the business news cable network is inviting a lawsuit. Ledbetter wrote, “Playing off the bad joke that is the Fox News Channel’s ‘fair and balanced’ motto, CNBC has been running ads touting its coverage as ‘unbiased.’ Leaving aside whether […]

American magazine tries to hit business news sweet spot

The American magazine, which launched one year ago, attempts to bridge the gap between traditional business magazines and “think” magazines, said publishing director Samuel Schulman on Sunday. “Forbes, Fortune and BusinessWeek have become magazines about ‘you,’ your career,” said Schulman at the fall Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference. “Conde Nast Portfolio is […]

Bad summer for business magazines

Ten out of 16 business magazines reported a decline in ad dollars for the three months ended Sept. 30, and 14 out of 16 reported a decline in ad pages during the same time period, according to data released from the Magazine Publishers of America. Only Barron’s, The Economist, Fast Company, Forbes, Money and Smart Money […]

An inside look at Fox Business Network

Tim Arango of Fortune got an inside look at the development of Fox Business Network, which debuted this morning. Arango wrote, “Among the guests the channel has lined up for its first week are eBay CEO Meg Whitman, New York Stock Exchange CEO John Thain, the oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, and the former pro […]

Biz magazines pushing online ad sales, but not Portfolio

Matthew Karnitschnig of The Wall Street Journal writes Friday that the big three business magazines — BusinessWeek, Forbes and Fortune — are pushing their Web sites more to combat falling ad sales in the print publications — except for Conde Nast Portfolio, which continues to push ad sales in its magazine. Karnitschnig wrote, “Helping Portfolio has been […]