"CEO Corner" host departs show
Maryanne Kane, the host of “CEO Corner” on New England Cable News, left the Boston-based show in a disagreement with management. Christine McConville of the Boston Herald writes, “Yesterday, the longtime business journalist, who started the show 17 years ago for Boston’s Bloomberg radio, said she left because NECN’s new management wanted to take the […]
Washington Post biz news is read more now that it's in A section
Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, talked Sunday about the paper’s decision last year to cut its standalone business section and put business news into its A section. Downie, now a professor at Arizona State University, also discussed the strategy behind the Post’s decision to launch a weekly business newspaper next […]
Kandel on business journalism
Myron Kandel, the founding business editor at CNN, talks Sunday about the current state of business journalism and what he sees happening in the future. Kandel, a two-time president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, was also the financial editor of the New York Post, financial editor of the New York Herald […]
CUNY grad students covering SABEW conference
Students from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism are at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers annual conference in Phoenix and reporting about the sessions at www.cunyatsabew.com. Graduate student Chris Prentice writes, “Journalism and business are both in the midst of seminal — and most would say painful –revolutions. No one understands that […]
Maryland biz magazine dispute continues with rival publication
A dispute between two former partners in a Maryland business magazine has led to one of them starting a rival publication and a judge’s ruling allowing the new magazine to continue publishing. Chris Hunterman of the Frederick Gazette writes, “On Wednesday, Frederick County Circuit Court Judge Julie Stevenson Solt denied RidgeRunner’s motion for a temporary […]
New biz editor at Missouri paper
Melissa Miller is the new business editor at the Southeast Missourian newspaper in Cape Girardeau. She writes, “I feel like my every career choice led to this moment and this job. My degree from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism in 2000, followed by seven years in newspapers in Missouri, Michigan and Indiana, gave […]
What's wrong with business journalism
Greg Gentschev, the founder of Brekiri, a business information-focused search engine, writes about what he perceives to be the problems with business journalism. Gentschev hates earnings stories, and he can’t understand the dearth of good business blogs. Gentschev writes, “More generally, nothing gets put in context. Few articles appear to have the space (and few […]
Web site on safety, health and corporate conduct to launch
A new Web site called FairWarning.org that will cover safety, health and corporate conduct is expected to launch soon and be run by two former Los Angeles Times reporters, writes Joe Strupp of Media Matters. Strupp writes, “The brainchild of former Los Angeles Times reporters Myron Levin and Joanna Lin, the outfit plans to investigate […]
Fighting the Feds
Joanna Slater of The Toronto Globe and Mail writes Monday about the lawsuit that Bloomberg has filed against the Federal Reserve to disclose the aid it gave banks during the financial crisis. Slater writes, “The decision from the appeals court could come any day between now and April, the lawyers involved said. Other similar cases […]
NYPost biz reporter departs for Daily Beast
New York Post business reporter Peter Lauria is leaving the News Corp. paper to accept a job with The Daily Beast web site. Peter Kafka of Media Memo writes, “The twist is that while Peter Lauria is leaving his gig covering media moguls at the New York Post, he’s staying in the business. He’s moving […]
