Utah biz magazine shutters
Grace Leong, a reporter for the Provo Daily Herald in Utah, reports Wednesday that Business Connect magazine, a local business publication with more than 15,000 subscribers statewide, has closed its doors. Leong writes, “He said the company has been mulling discontinuing Business Connect because of the industrywide slump in advertising revenues in the third and […]
Dow Jones Newswires hires two new columnists
Dow Jones Newswires announced Tuesday that it has hired two non-journalists to be columnists. Paul Sharma, based in London, joins as a telecommunications, media and technology columnist and Donna Childs, based in New York, joins as a financial services columnist. “The appointments of Paul and Donna are part of our overarching strategy to enhance our […]
Entries being accepted for Barlett & Steele Awards
Entries Are Now Being Accepted for the Third Annual Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism. Named for the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative business journalist team of Don Barlett and Jim Steele, these awards, funded by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, celebrate the best in print and online investigative business […]
Personal finance coverage intensifies
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The competition in personal finance coverage has intensified in the past few years, said Jane Bryant Quinn, the pre-eminent personal finance columnist in the country. She noted that Web sites devotes to personal finance, as well as new syndicated columnists, have increased the amount of content. The Associated Press earlier this […]
The role of financial journalism in financial literacy
Aaron London of the Daytona Beach News Journal writes Sunday about the impact of stories about business and the economy in the media have on financial literacy in the country. London writes, “Financial journalism, like all journalism, is a fast-paced business where information flies around at a thousand miles per hour. And with so many […]
In criticism of placed biz news stories
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of The Deal, writes about how some companies continue to “give” stories to certain business news outlets in the wake of The Wall Street Journal‘s story Monday about ExpressScripts’ deal to purchase NextRx. Kantrow writes, “Media Maneuvers has always been obsessed with strategic placements, going back to the early years […]
MoneyShow.com hires former CNBC, SmartMoney.com staffers
MoneyShow.com, an online site that has videos and text about investing news, has hired former CNBC anchor Karen Gibbs as host of the MoneyShow.com Video Network and former SmartMoney.com markets editor and columnist Igor Greenwald as Global Investing editor. As host of the MoneyShow.com Video Network, Gibbs will interview the leading economic, financial, and investment experts for […]
Four Chicago Tribune business reporters lose jobs in layoffs
Four business reporters at the Chicago Tribune were among the 53 laid off in the newsroom on Wednesday, a source tells Talking Biz News. The four are technology reporter Eric Benderoff, real estate reporter Susan Diesenhouse, futures, derivatives and agriculture reporter Joshua Boak and spot news and manufacturing reporter Jim Miller. Benderoff had been a tech reporter and […]
A business editor's layoff, or death by a thousands cuts
Michael Miner writes Thursday about the layoffs at the Sun-Times regional papers, including the Daily Southtown, a suburban Chicago paper, that caught business editor Bob Bong eating at his desk when his notice came. Miner writes, “Bong said that over the past few years he’s seen business coverage diminish from a separate section to a […]
SABEW members to vote on move
Society of American Business Editors and Writers members attending the Denver conference next week will vote next Monday on whether to move the organization to Arizona State University. SABEW members registered for the conference received an e-mail on Tuesday detailing the proposal. The vote will take place on April 27 at the organization’s annual business […]
