Glick promoted to VP of biz news at Fox
Alexis Glick was promoted to vice president of business news for Fox Business Network, the company announced Wednesday. The network launches Oct. 15. She is partly responsible for overseeing all aspects of Fox Business News’ business programming along with Neil Cavuto, senior vice president and managing editor of business news, to whom she reports. In making the announcement, executive vice president […]
The future of business journalism
Oklahoman business writer Steve Lackmeyer interviewed Oklahoma State University journalism professor Joey Senat about the future of business journalism in the wake of News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch‘s decision to acquire The Wall Street Journal and the impending launch of Fox Business Network. Here is an excerpt: Q:Â Has the disappearance of stock pages from newspaper […]
Longtime Bloomberg journalist joins TV operations
Erik Schatzker, a longtime Bloomberg journalist who has been the Canada bureau chief and also the team leader in New York overseeing Wall Street coverage, is leaving the news service side of the operations to join Bloomberg TV, which has seen a number of defections in recent weeks. The move was announced internally at Bloomberg […]
New WSJ owner: We will crush FT
Peter Chernin, the president of News Corp., which is acquiring The Wall Street Journal‘s parent company Dow Jones & Co., said in England that the paper will “crush” rival Financial Times, according to an article in the Scotsman newspaper. Adam Cash of The Scotsman wrote, “Chernin said: ‘We don’t want to buy the FT. News […]
Fox Business Network announces primetime show
Nationally syndicated radio talk-show personality and personal finance expert Dave Ramsey will host a primetime show on the upcoming Fox Business Network, according to an announcement Thursday. In making the announcement, Fox executive vice president Kevin Magee said, “Dave Ramsey is a welcome addition to FBN’s programming. Our primetime format will offer a new opportunity for […]
Fox Business Network aiming at wrong audience
Henry Blodget writes on Silicon Alley Insider that the upcoming Fox Business Network is aiming for the wrong audience if it wants to be successful. Blodget, who was responding to comments made by News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch that CNBC focuses too much on negative business news, wrote, “We hear him on CNBCs scandal-mongering, but here […]
Fox Business Network names reporters
Jeff Flock, Shibani Joshi and Connell McShane have been hired as reporters for the Fox Business Network, according to a press release issued Wednesday. Flock, who will be based in Chicago, spent 24 years at CNN in various capacities, most recently as Chicago bureau chief and correspondent where he managed coverage of the Midwestern region […]
Some CNBC staffers looking to work for Ailes again
Felix Gillette of the New York Observer writes Wednesday that some CNBC staff members such as Ted David are interested in working for their former boss, Roger Ailes, who is now in charge of getting Fox Business Network off the ground. Gillette wrote, “To date, Fox execs have said little in public about their vision […]
Fox Business Network names four new anchors
Fox Business Network named Tuesday four new anchors — Peter Barnes, Jenna Lee, Nicole Petallides and Cody Willard — for the new busiiness news network launching Oct. 15. They will serve alongside David Asman, Dagen McDowell, Cheryl Casone, Stuart Varney and Rebecca Gomez, who were named as anchors last week. Barnes joins from his position as […]
Fox Biz Network to be more consumer friendly
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday at an investor conference that the new Fox Business Network will be more focused on business news for consumers than rival CNBC. An AP story stated, “‘They dwell too much on failures or scandals,’ Mr. Murdoch told an investors conference in New York Tuesday. ‘We want to put […]
