Portfolio gearing up webcasts for site
Maria Aspan of The New York Times reports Monday that the second issue of new business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio means that the publication is also gearing up more content for its web site. Aspan wrote, “According to Perri Dorset, a spokeswoman for Condé Nast, the daily business Webcast will be part of the refreshed […]
TheStreet.com's Fuchs and Barron's Savitz in a tiff
Apparently Barron’s writer Eric Savitz didn’t take too kindly to TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs criticizing him for writing the same story about Microsoft stock over and over again. Fuchs wrote, “He first said that my coverage was obnoxious. To this, I must say: I resemble that accusation. But beyond that, he only had one point I […]
PC World redesigns for September issue
Lucia Moses of BrandWeek writes that PC World is redesigning itself for its September issue to focus on gadgets. Moses wrote, “To support that goal, the redesigned PC World will introduce a number of new departments. Forward, focusing on breakthrough products and trends, will replace the news section. Business Center will provide practical information for […]
Harsh coverage almost killed Dow Jones deal
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday that the “harsh” coverage of his attempts to purchase Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, almost killed the deal. Peter Lauria of The New York Post wrote, “‘I spent the better part of the past three months enduring criticism normally leveled at a […]
Chicago Tribune starts e-mail biz news service
The Chicago Tribune announced Thursday that it will begin a business news service that will distribute the latest headlines and information to its readers via e-mail. The announcement stated, “Today’s business world demands that you stay informed each moment of the workday, and the Chicago Tribune and chicagotribune.com now have made it easier. “Introducing the […]
Not to be a kiss-up to the new boss, but…
Kara Swisher, a technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal, writes on the All Things D web site run by the paper’s tech team that she believes that the paper’s web site should be free. Coincidentally, that’s the way that new owner, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, appears to be leaning as well. Swisher wrote, […]
BusinessWeek web site has more than 1 million podcast downloads
BusinessWeek.com has received more than 1 million podcast downloads in June, a first-time achievement for the business magazine’s web site. The total downloads were 1,043,487, announced John Byrne, executive editor of BusinessWeek.com Podcasts “The Welch Way” and “The Cover Story” had the highest number of downloads. “The Welch Way” features Jack & Suzy Welch’s answers to readers’ questions about business, […]
Fake Steve Jobs blog moves to Forbes web site
Dan Lyons, the Forbes senior editor who was exposed by the New York Times as being the author of the Fake Steve Jobs blog, has moved the blog to the Forbes web site, according to a story on the Forbes site. The story stated, “‘The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs,’ a satirical blog about Apple‘s […]
When biz reporters are columnists
TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow doesn’t like the fact that mergers and acquisitions reporters such as The Wall Street Journal’s Dennis Berman and the New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin sometimes write news and sometimes write columns filled with their opinion. Kantrow wrote, “Call us hopelessly old-fashioned, but we long for those now-ancient days when […]
Fake Steve Jobs is Forbes senior editor
Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine, has come forth as the writer of the Fake Steve Jobs blog that has captured the imagination of techies around the world — and attracted Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates as readers. Brad Stone of The New York Times writes, “Mr. Lyons said he invented the Fake […]
