Wartzman to write column for BusinessWeek.com
Rick Wartzman, the former business editor of the Los Angeles Times, has agreed to start writing a bi-monthly column for BusinessWeek.com, according to an announcement. The magazine’s new online focus is management issues. After its debut Friday the column will run on BusinessWeek’s website every other Monday. It will also appear occasionally in the print edition […]
Blogging for dollars
Kelly Heyboer, a Newark Star-Ledger reporter who is attending the “Covering Digital Culture” seminar for journalists at the University of Maryland in College Park, writes about how some companies will pay bloggers to write about them. Heyboer wrote, “Journalists have long maintained that accepting compensation or gifts to promote a product on news pages is […]
Finding business journalism jobs on Facebook
Elisabeth Butler Cordova of Crain’s New York Business writes about how Fast Company senior editor Jeffrey Chu found his latest job by surfing for friends on social networking site Facebook. Cordova wrote, “While surfing through members’ personal pages on the social networking site, the financial journalist came upon a former colleague from his days at […]
Celebrating 20 years in business journalism
Marketwatch editor David Callaway writes Thusday about the changes in business journalism in the past 20 years, harking back to the day when he was on the business desk of the Boston Herald and the stock market dropped 500 points back in October 1987. Callaway wrote, “Business journalism took off in the late 1980s, then […]
BusinessWeek.com's page view woes
Peter Kafka of Silicon Valley Insider writes Wednesday that the real reason why BusinessWeek.com has seen a decrease in its page views is not because it doesn’t have — as some have suggested — enough fresh content, doesn’t do enough with video, and has lousy design and navigation. Kafka wrote, “None of this rings true. (Disclosure: […]
Biz journalism finalists for Online Journalism Awards
At least four online business journalism ventures in the past year are finalists for the Online Journalism Awards, which are given out by the Online News Association and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Denver Post business columnist Al Lewis is a finalist in the Online Commentary category for medium-sized publications for his blog “Talk […]
CNBC's Jim Cramer is irreplaceable
Sheldon Liber writes on BloggingStocks.com about the difficulty that CNBC will have in replacing “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer when he decides to retire. Liber wrote, “This is not an obituary for his CNBC show. Only the recognition that all things must end and Cramer brings it up all too often. “He could never do […]
Is TheStreet.com in play?
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan of the Seeking Alpha web site wonders if TheStreet.com is an acquisition target, potentially by NBC. Karbasfrooshan wrote, “TheStreet.com has historically been too reliant on subscriptions, a revenue stream that in today’s advertising-obsessed environment might hurt its chances to fetch a hefty premium in an M&A. Of course, with Rupert Murdoch’s mammoth ambition […]
TheStreet.com pushes for more advertising
Kate Kaye of The ClickZ Network writes Monday that business news web site TheStreet.com is looking to increase its advertising by making some changes to how it operates. She wrote, “It’s all in the hopes of garnering more online ad dollars, which some say is a more reliable revenue stream than subscriptions, especially when media […]
Biz journal web sites hacked
Editor Michael Lyster of the Orange County Business Journal writes Monday that the weekly business newspaper’s web site — as well as the web sites of some of its sister publications — were hacked into during the holiday weekend. Lyster wrote, “A hacker broke into the site and replaced story headlines and bylines with ‘Hacked_By_HaCkPeReSt.’ […]
