Marketwatch: Always a destination for breaking financial news
Douglas MacIntyre writes on the 24/7 Wall St. site about what he remembers about Marketwatch when it launched 10 years ago. At the time, MacIntyre was the CEO of financial news and data company FutureSource. MacIntyre wrote, “One impression of MarketWatch should be unchanged after all of these years. The website was always the best […]
Getting used to a free WSJ.com
New York Times reporter Saul Hansell wrote Tuesday that Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz sounded as if he was warming to the idea of making the newspaper’s web site free to all readers — a move that new owner News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has championed. Crovitz has previously been a proponent of a […]
Industry Standard coming back as web site
Robert Andrews of PaidContent.org writes Tuesday from the Future of Business Media conference in New York that The Industry Standard, a magazine that flourished during the tech bubble of the late 1990s but then died, will return. Andrews wrote, “Industry Standard will be resurrected as a blog-cum-community site in December, IDG president Bob Carrigan revealed […]
Forbes and the future of business journalism
Peter Kafka of Silicon Alley Insider writers Tuesday about the Future of Business Media conference session with Forbes.com publisher Jim Spanfeller and Forbes investor Roger McNamee. Here is an excerpt: Ancient Forbes Magazine in trouble? Rafat Ali asks Jim Spanfeller why the magazine hasn’t changed its look, but he’s asking the wrong guy, as Jim runs […]
How the Economist thrives in new media world
Jeff Bercovici of Conde Nast Portfolio writes Tuesday from the Future of Business Media conference in New York about comments made by The Economist global marketing director Susan Clark. Bercovici wrote, “The Economist seems to be doing extremely well by staying narrowly focused on the refreshingly old-fashioned goal of increasing the number of subscribers to […]
Real estate blog network gets investors
Dan Mitchell of The New York Times writes Tuesday that the real estate blog network Curbed.com has received $1.5 from investors that include Gawker Media. Mitchell wrote, “Nick Denton, Mr. Steele’s boss when he was managing editor of the Gawker Media blog network, and Zach Nelson, chief executive of NetSuite, a maker of business software, […]
The evolution of business news in the past 10 years
Marketwatch editor Dave Callaway writes Tuesday, on the 10th anniversary of the web site’s launching, about how business journalism has evolved in the past decade. Callaway wrote, “From Day 1, we positioned ourselves to be a primary provider of news, not just to the Web site but to media partners such as CBS, the Financial […]
TheStreet.com survives when bigger players enter the market
Maria Aspan of The New York Times writes Monday about how TheStreet.com continues to thrive despite bigger players entering the online business journalism market. Aspan wrote, “For 11 years, TheStreet.com has developed its identity as a small, reliable financial information Web site, a quiet and somewhat plain publication buoyed by the loud, larger-than-life personality of its co-founder, […]
The demise of Wall Street — once again
The Deal executive editor Yvette Kantrow takes issue Friday with the November issue of Conde Nast Portfolio, which contains an article from Jesse Eisinger predicting the demise of Wall Street. Kantrow wrote, “So where do we start? First, let’s note that the ‘death of Wall Street’ story is a staple of end-of-a-boom reporting, mindlessly but […]
24/7 Wall St. names top business news bloggers
Douglas MacIntyre of 24/7 Wall St. has compiled his top 10 business and financial news bloggers, and while the list includes some well-known names such as Eric Savitz of Barron’s and Herb Greenberg of Marketwatch, he’s also got some names on his list that may not ring a bell with business journalism junkies. The list […]
