More on Mariagate
Fortune magazine’s Barney Gimbel has some interesting observations on the Maria Bartiromo/Citigroup scandal, noting that it’s been mostly the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post that has been pushing the issue. Murdoch, of course, is also behind the launch of the Fox Business Channel to compete with Bartiromo’s CNBC. Gimbel also points out that Bartiromo’s name […]
CNNMoney rolls out updated web site
In a bid to counteract the new web sites from Yahoo Finance and CNBC, CNNMoney.com rolled out its updated web site on Wednesday with a number of new features. The new site features include live streaming stock quotes that update automatically, without requiring a manual browser refresh. A personalization module on the homepage will track […]
A PR person's perspective about business journalism
Hope Heyman has more than 25 years experience in corporate communications and public relations, specializing in media relations. She serves as the chief media strategist for a number of financial, corporate and health services companies as the senior vice president in Edelman’s New York Office. Before entering public relations, Hope was a reporter and writer […]
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, […]
Fox makes it official: Biz network will launch in fourth quarter
News Corp. finally issued a press release Thursday afternoon stating that its Fox Business Channel would hit the airwaves in the last three months of this year. The release stated, “Presently, FOX Business Channel has 30 million subscribers under contract after securing distribution agreements with multiple cable operators, including: Time Warner; Comcast; Charter, and Direct […]
Murdoch: CNBC antagonistic toward business; Fox will be friendly
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, speaking Thursday at the Media Summitt in New York hosted by BusinessWeek, accused business news cable channel CNBC of being unfriendly toward business and added that his Fox Business News network, slated to appear later this year, would take an opposite tack. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, writing for Multichannel News, wrote, “‘We […]
Biz media have bigger ethical issues than being cozy with sources
TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow wants to know why the media has gotten so up in arms about CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo taking a trip on the Citigroup jet when there appear to be bigger ethical issues surrounding business journalism. Kantrow wrote, “Show us a big-deal TV journalist who hasn’t sat on or moderated a […]
Peter Lewis leaves Fortune
Senior editor Peter Lewis, who has been covering technology for Fortune for the past six year, has left the publication as part of the parent company Time Inc.’s layoffs, magazine spokeswoman Susan Brown Williams confirmed. It initially was unclear as to whether Lewis was part of the downsizing announced last week at Time Inc. I […]
New executive editor named at Fortune
Steven Koepp, who had been deputy managing editor at Time, has been named the new executive editor at Fortune. Unlike other media outlets, the exec ed position is the No. 2 slot at Fortune, behind ME. Andy Serwer is Fortune’s managing editor. Koepp replaces Robert Safian, who left earlier this month to become editor in […]
Why the iPhone wasn't a cover story
The Valleywag blog, which tracks all things Silicon Valley, has some interesting theories as to why Apple’s introduction of the iPhone failed to make any magazine covers — business or general interest — this week. Valleywag reported, “Apple, when it has a sexy new product to show, typically approaches big consumer magazines such as Time, […]
