Tag: Fox Business Network

How to improve financial television

There is an anonymous post Tuesday morning on Seeking Alpha that lists seven ways that financial news on television could improve. Here are a few suggestions: 2. Emphasize investigative journalism. Financially literate, intelligent people can add a whole lot of value when it comes to explaining and digging into economic and financial stories. Think Kate […]

Fox Business numbers not improving

Douglas McIntyre of 24/7 Wall St. writes Monday that the performance at Fox Business Network in terms of gaining viewers and readers to its Web site has stagnated, a statement that Fox disputes. McIntyre writes, “Based on 24/7 Wall St. conversations with people with knowledge about recent Fox Business viewership figures, including one former executive with […]

Fox's Dagen McDowell came up through biz journalism the hard way

Nancy Menefree Jackson of SmartWoman.com interviewed Fox Business Network anchor Dagen McDowell about her career and how she prepares for work each day. Here is an excerpt: Q: How did you educate yourself about the financial world? McDowell: I started by reading as much as I could: newspapers, books, research. But I learned the most […]

Murdoch: WSJ could be paperless in 20 years

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch told Neil Cavuto of Fox Business Network on Monday that The Wall Street Journal could be paperless within two decades. Matt Egan of Fox Business writes, “‘I can see the day — and it may be 20 years away — where you don’t actually have paper and ink and printing […]

How to fix TV financial news

Barry Ritholtz, writing on his Big Picture blog, has some ideas on how the problems with business news on television could be solved. Here’s a sample: 6. Separate the Signal from the Noise.  Understand that most of the day-to-day action is simply noise. Look at a long term chart, you can barely see 9187 or […]

No to WSJ and Bloomberg, yes to Twitter

Joshua Brown writes on The Reformed Broker site about Fox Business Network‘s Eric Bolling and how he prepares to go on the air. Brown writes, “Bolling starts his day at around 8 am and digs into the news coming out of Asia immediately.  He appears on Fox Business throughout the day on Strategy Room and […]

Fox Business aims for the average worker

Jeff Bercovici of Daily Finance writes about how Fox Business Network is trying to overtake CNBC by catering to workers, not executives. Bercovici writes, “But whereas CNBC’s personalities lambast the Obama Administration and its ‘communist’ policies for their supposedly dampening effect on big business, Fox Business is articulating the anger of the gas-station owner who […]

Overcoming multiple job rejections

Richard Huff of the New York Daily News profiles Fox Business Network anchor Jenna Lee, whose early career was marked by numerous people telling her she wasn’t cut out for television. Huff writes, “She’s anchoring on a business news network at a time when business news is at a high point. This week, the network […]

Fox Business to focus coverage next week on government spending

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Fox Business Network will spend the bulk of its coverage next week exploring the increase in government spending to prop up the economy and what that means to the average consumer. They’re calling it “Red Ink Week.” Leading that coverage will be anchor David Asman, who will have special reports on […]