Florida paper promotes business news at airport
The Tampa Bay Times, the paper formerly known as the St. Petersburg Times, is promoting its business news coverage and its business columnist at Tampa International Airport. The photo is one taken Friday afternoon by Talking Biz News. It is an advertisement at the tram that takes passengers from their gate to the main terminal. […]
Wharton to hold biz journalism seminar next month
The Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists, led by the Wharton School’s most prominent professors, will hold a one-day program next month in San Francisco. The program will feature Wharton professors Saikat Chaudhuri and David Robertson on “Incubating Innovation in Established Firms” and “The Balance Between Creativity and Constraints.” The Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists, now […]
Professor studies stock price changes and business journalism
Michael Blanding of the Tuck business school at Dartmouth writes about the research of visiting professor Diego Garcia, who examines the relationship between stock price movements and how they are written about in the financial press. Blanding writes, “‘Journalists do not make much out of positive returns in the market,’ says Garcia. ‘On very good […]
Dallas Morning News revamps biz coverage
Bob Mong, the editor of the Dallas Morning News, writes Sunday about changes in the paper’s business coverage. Mong writes, “On Tuesday, we introduce a redesigned Business section with a cleaner look and expanded content. A year in the making, the section is the work of a team of journalists and lots of good ideas […]
American Lawyer parent is on the market
American Lawyer publisher ALM Media, which was once controlled by Wall Street dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein, is exploring a sale that could fetch more than $500 million, reports Olivia Oran and Greg Roumeliotis of Reuters. Oran and Roumeliotis write, “ALM Media, backed by private equity firm Apax Partners, has hired investment bank Jefferies to assist with […]
WSJ Office Network is sold
Captivate Network, which already owns the bulk of those business screens in elevators, is buying the company that owns most of the screens in lobbies, Office Media Network, operator of The Wall Street Journal Office Network, in a cash and stock deal, the companies said Tuesday. Michael Sebastian of Advertising Age writes, “The Wall Street […]
Sticking to the mission: Providing readers with important biz news
Gwen Moritz, the editor of Arkansas Business, writes about the publication on its 30th anniversary. Moritz writes, “A lot of things have changed in the past three decades, many of them for the better. In October 1990, Arkansas Business switched to weekly publication. Better technology has radically improved what we can do on the printed […]
Showtime orders show from biz journalist Sorkin
Showtime has ordered “Billions” from New York Times and CNBC business journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin and writer-director-producers Brian Koppelman and David Levien. Whitney Friedlander of Variety writes, “Set in the world of wealth, this fictional drama focuses on the collision and, at times, collusion between an aggressive U.S. attorney in New York and some of […]
Navajo Post to become first Navajo business newspaper
The Navajo Post will officially become the first Navajo business newspaper to cover the business community on the Navajo Nation and entrepreneurs throughout the Southwest. A notice on its website states: Although our platform is solely business news, we will still cover some hard news. The Navajo Post was officially established on May 5, 2011. […]
The Financial Follies from a PR perspective
The 71st annual Financial Follies (“The Follies”) was held last Friday at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square and hosted by the New York Financial Writers’ Association. The Follies is an event where reporters and public relations professionals alike engage in respectable behavior and generally call it a night after their second drink. I’d been […]
