13 seek SABEW board seats
Thirteen members of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers are running for the seven vacant seats on the organization’s board of governors. The top six vote-getters will serve three-year terms. The next highest vote-getter will serve the remaining two years of the term of Jill Jorden Spitz of the Arizona Daily Star, who is joining the officer’s […]
Lessons learned from a career journalist
Rocky Mountain News business editor Rob Reuteman writes Saturday about some of the things he has learned in his three-decade career as a journalist. Here are some good ones for any business reporter: * Some companies have corporate communications departments that facilitate the flow of information to the public. Others clearly have marching orders to […]
The body count in biz journalism
Talking Biz News has compiled a list of the carnage in business journalism in the last 15 months, and it’s not a pretty sight. Here are the numbers: At least 44 daily newspapers have cut their standalone business sections during the week. Those include the Boston Globe and the Denver Post. Two papers — the Chicago Tribune […]
Loeb Awards seeking 2009 nominations
The G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and UCLA Anderson School of Management invite business, financial and economic journalists from print, online and broadcast media to submit entries and nominations for the 2009 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. The Loeb Awards are the most prestigious honor in business journalism recognizing writers, […]
Black Enterprise undergoes overhaul
Black Enterprise magazine has rolled out a redesign that includes a new logo — the first change since its inception — with its January 2009 issue. The changes include a new wealth section, repackaged personal finance and consumer affairs sections and an updated tech section. The PowerPlay section has been renamed Workplace. “Because of the […]
The unified Forbes newsroom
Forbes editors William Baldwin and Paul Maidment write about the combining of the business magazine’s print and online staffs into one unit. Baldwin and Maidment write, “It may be in text, video, still images, audio, numerical data or combinations thereof, in whatever format is appropriate. But the very best of it–the content that will provide […]
Biz journalist Narisetti gets one of two ME slots at Washington Post
Raju Narisetti, a longtime business journalist at The Wall Street Journal who has been running a business newspaper in India for the past couple of years, has been named one of two new managing editors at the Washington Post. The other new managing editor, Liz Spayd, has also spent time in business journalism, working as […]
Newark names new biz editor
The Newark Star-Ledger has named special projects editor Steve Crabill as its new business editor, managing editor of news Kevin Whitmer confirms to Talking Biz News. Crabill replaces Kevin Shinkle, who is now an assistant business editor at the Associated Press. In his position as special projects editor, he oversaw coverage that led to the […]
TheStreet.com to syndicate content to newspapers
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Financial news site The Street.com will begin offering syndication of its news content at no cost to newspapers, editor Glenn Hall said Friday. “All we seek in return is prominent attribution and links to our site from the byline at the top of our stories when they are published on a newspaper’s […]
Kiplinger's editor says goodbye
Fred Frailey, the retiring editor of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, said goodbye to readers in t he February issue by talking about its new editor, Janet Bodnar. Frailey writes, “I met Janet Bodnar 22 years ago. Before Ted hired me as his deputy, he asked her to take me to lunch. Janet was then a young […]
