Portfolio web site in beta until September
Gawker has a nice critique of the Conde Nast Portfolio web site this evening and breaks the news that it will remain in beta format until September, when the business glossy’s second issue will hit newsstands. Gawker wrote, “The website’s tagline is ‘Breaking Business News and Opinion, Executive Profiles and Careers.’ So what did they […]
New York Times relaunches tech blog
The New York Times has relaunched its “Bits” technology blog, which features news and analysis about Silicon Valley, innovation and the people and companies that comprise the tech sector. “Bits” will be edited by Times tech reporter Saul Hansell and will feature posts from other tech reporters. In a post Tuesday, Hansell wrote, “Our goal in this […]
Maryland newspaper starts a business blog
The Frederick News-Post’s business section will start a blog on Monday. While a number of daily newspapers have business blogs, few the size of the Maryland paper have one. A short story in Sunday’s paper said, “News-Post web Editor Jason Brennan said the blog is the start of a new era online. Business Editor Cliff […]
Business.com could fetch $400 million
Dennis Berman of The Wall Street Journal writes Friday that media companies such as Dow Jones & Co. and The New York Times could bid as much as $400 million for the business.com web site, which is on the block. Berman wrote, “Business.com does the kind of things publishers are trying to do more of: […]
Two tech blogs with a lot of influence
Michelle Kessler of USA Today writes Tuesday about the TechCrunch, started by Michael Arrington, and GigaOm, started by Om Malik, blogs that write about the high-tech industry situated in and around the Silicon Valley. Kessler wrote, “GigaOm has readers numbering in the hundreds of thousands, and TechCrunch’s audience tops a million. But that doesn’t accurately reflect their […]
Breakingviews.com has straightforward Dow Jones coverage
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman writes Wednesday that the coverage of the potential sale of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, in BreakingViews.com has been particularly balanced. Dow Jones has a minority interest in the web site, and the Journal runs a column from the web site. Friedman wrote, “It […]
Serwer: Fortune will show my personality
Since becoming the new managing editor of Fortune magazine in late 2006, Andy Serwer has changed the Time Inc. glossy in a number of ways. He’s launched a redesign of the magazine, slated to appear by the end of 2007, and hired back some business journalists who left the magazine under prior management, most notably Betsy […]
CNBC hires judge to investigate Million Dollar Portfolio challenge
The following state was issued by CNBC late Friday: “We have hired Judge Stanley Sporkin (U.S. District Court Judge, Ret.), the former Director of the Division of Enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission. Judge Sporkin is investigating whether one or more contestants engaged in illegal market manipulation to affect actual prices represented in their […]
Sharesleuth is business as usual
Dan Mitchell of the New York Times takes a look Saturday at the investigative business journalism site Sharesleuth in the wake of it publishing earlier this week a story about a private company instead of one that funder Mark Cuban had shorted its stock. The web site has been criticized for its strategy, most notably […]
WSJ editor changes show foresight
David Lee Smith of The Motley Fool writes Thursday that the editor changes at The Wall Street Journal are designed to take advantage of changes in the media world, not gird the paper for an impending takeover by News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, who has offered $5 billion to purchase parent Dow Jones & Co. […]
