CNNMoney.com shows strong growth in April
CNNMoney.com ranked first in the financial news and information category in unique viewers, total streams and streams per viewer in April, according to numbers from Nielsen VideoCensus. After expanding its online video presence with eight new online business shows, CNNMoney.com recorded 20.2 million total U.S. streams – or 52 percent of the total streams in the category. With shows such as […]
Dow Jones Newswires names new senior editor for Asia-Pacific
Dow Jones Newswires managing editor Neal Lipschutz sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: “I’m pleased to announce that Jason Rogers will succeed Gabriella Stern as senior editor, Asia-Pacific, effective June 1. “Gabby is returning to the U.S. after spending the past nine years as senior editor for EMEA and then APAC. She is taking […]
Moneywatch.com expanding video, new programming
Daisy Whitney of Beet.tv writes on The Huffington Post about how the new Moneywatch.com site from CBS is adding to its new video programming. Whitney writes, “CBS is currently building a set and studio for MoneyWatch at its 28th Street offices in New York and site’s Jill Schlesinger, editor-at-large, will start producing daily segments, said […]
Vancouver business newspaper sold to former publisher
Darren Kloster of the Canwest News Service reports Tuesday that the Business Examiner, a monthly business newspaper in the Vancouver area, has been sold to a former publisher. Kloster writes, “Nanaimo’s Mark MacDonald acquired the monthly newspaper that covers business issues on Vancouver Island in a deal over the weekend. Financial terms were not disclosed. […]
Velshi is all business on CNN
Leslie Scrivener of the Toronto Star profiles Canadian native Ali Velshi, the main business reporter on CNN. Scrivener writes, “Velshi doesn’t have the square-jawed appeal of the late Peter Jennings of ABC World News Tonight, nor the boyish good looks of CNN American Morning anchor John Roberts – both, like him, Canadians who rose to […]
San Diego paper cuts two business reporters amid layoffs
The San Diego Union-Tribune, which announced layoffs of 40 newsroom staffers on Thursday, has lost two business reporters, notes Eric Wolff of San Diego CityBeat. They are Penni Crabtree and Jonathan Sidener. Crabtree covers tourism, retail and consumer issues, while Sidener covers telecommunications, the video game industry and personal technology. Crabtree is also known for […]
SF Chronicle losing two more business journalists
The San Francisco Chronicle, which last month lost two business reporters to buyouts, will lose two more to layoffs, a source at the paper confirmed to Talking Biz News. They are Internet reporter Verne Kopytoff and senior technology reporter Deborah Gage. Their departure date could not be determined. Kopytoff covered the Internet for the Chronicle since […]
Nightly Business Report co-anchor Kangas plans to retire at end of 2009
Paul Kangas, a co-anchor on the PBS show “Nightly Business Report,” plans to retire at the end of the year after three decades in the spot. The show has quietly begun searching for a successor. Kangas has been stationed at the show’s Miami headquarters since it began in 1979, making him the longest-running business news […]
McDonald defines who she is
Elizabeth MacDonald, the stock market editor at Fox Business Network, talked about the best business journalism to read to learn about the economy and her career with the Woman Around Town site. Here is an excerpt: It’s important today that teenagers achieve some level of financial literacy. Who do you think is best able to give them a […]
Claman of Fox Biz prepares for Buffett coverage
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE When Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman made her debut on the network in October 2007, her first interview was with legendary investor Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Claman, a former CNBC anchor, has since interviewed Buffett a number of times on the air and will go to Omaha, Neb., […]
