More blogs added
I have added more business news blogs to the blogroll for Talking Biz News. Among the new blogs added are the ones for Fast Company Now, Daniel Gross’ Moneyblog and the Squawk Blog from CNBC. There is also now a link to Deal Flow, a BusinessWeek blog about the world of IPOs and venture capital. […]
Covering the Xbox 360 frenzy
The CJR Daily blog has an excellent analysis of how some business media didn’t just take what Microsoft was spoonfeeding them in covering the debut of the new Xbox 360 game console. You can read it here. If I can add in my own unscientific 2 cents, it would be this: I have two boys, […]
Shopping stories today
Here is a compilation of day after Thanksgiving shopping stories that I found online this evening: 1. CNN.com’s headline focused on the bargains that retailers were already offering in its story here. 2. The CBS News story online also focused on the bargains as well as estimates from some of the largest retailers that crowds […]
When was this written?
OK, in what decade was the following written? I am deleting the dates to make it harder. Answer is below. “Newspaper managements took their cue and enlarged space allotments to finance and business news. Under stress of competition, yet mostly because the readership desired it, the stock and bond tables were expanded. Today they are […]
The country's best economics reporters
As David Warsh, editor of economicprincipals.com, so eloquently puts it, “It may not be a golden age of economic journalism. The traditional means of support — advertising — has been too undependable for that, thanks to a cataract of technological change. But there are plenty of new rafts on the river. There’s even reason to […]
A book about Google
I am intrigued with the coverage of Google since it went public about 15 months ago, primarily for reasons that have to do with jealousy. You see, in the Economics Reporting class that I teach, each of the students is required to own and manage a portfolio of at least five stocks, starting with a […]
Business journalism and the K-R bidding
In the letter sent to newspaper chain from Knight-Ridder alumns, a member of the business journalism community and SABEW — Washington & Lee’s Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism Pam Luecke — is among the signers who say they will nominate a slate of new directors for the company’s board. The Knight-Ridder papers have been all […]
Business news criticism from a law professor
Stephen Bainbridge is a law professor at UCLA who has his own blog. Doing a Web search looking for criticism of how the media has covered the oil and gas industry, I ran across this entry from his blog, which is more than a year old, but still very apropos to what is going on […]
Good list of blogs for business journalists
The Wall Street Journal published a list this morning of the best blogs that its reporters use when chasing down stories or in finding information on their beat. The list can be found here. If you cover one of the industries discussed in one of these blogs, then it’s probably worth your while to check […]
Good books about business
I was at my local Barnes & Noble this afternoon and picked up two books about companies or industries that promise to be good reading. The first is “The Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Global Financial Catastrophe,” by Jeremy Leggett. It is published by Random House and sounds exactly was it […]
