PC World editor resigns amid disagreements with publisher
Harry McCracken, the editor of PC World magazine, resigned earlier this week after disagreements with the publisher regarding negative articles about major advertisers, according to a CNET story. Tom Krazit wrote, “McCracken, reached Wednesday evening, confirmed that he resigned after 12 years at the magazine and 16 years at publisher International Data Group, over disagreements […]
NYTimes.com launches small business web site
NYTimes.com today announced Wednesday the launch of Small Business, a new online section dedicated to current news and resources for small business owners, entrepreneurs and general managers. The new Small Business section includes weekly columns and features from Times journalists and third-party sources, including AllBusiness.com, Inc. Magazine and SmallBusiness.org, as well as a Resource Center […]
BusinessWeek launching new financial site
MediaWeek’s Mike Shields is reporting that BusinessWeek is looking to launch a new financial site later this week that it hopes will triple its number of pages. Shields wrote, “Starting May 1, the new Company Insight Center (CIC)—built in conjunction with BusinessWeek sister company Capital IQ (both owned by McGraw-Hill Cos.)—will begin housing a huge […]
BloggingStocks.com celebrates one-year anniversary
Sarah Gilbert writes on BloggingStocks.com about the web site’s one-year anniversary. The site is an AOL venture that has dozens of writers analyzing stocks. Gilbert wrote, “About this time 366 days ago, I was madly preparing for the launch of what I then thought was the most important project for which I’d ever been ready […]
Great opportunities in business media
Neil Ashe, the CEO of CNET Networks, spoke on the company’s earnings conference call Thursday about the opportunities in business media. Ashe said, “In the first quarter, we launched BNET. There is a large unmet opportunity in business media. Currently business media is largely focused on business sports, who is winning, who is losing, who […]
Portfolio web site a "strong design effort"
Tom McCormick has a trenchant review of the Portfolio.com web site on the Bivings Report that is much more illuminating than my own critique. McCormick wrote, “All new web efforts must have a blog component and portfolio.com is no exception. Speaking only on the design, I like the way they have set this section up. […]
Yes, still more coverage of the Conde Nast Portfolio launch
The New York Times’ Katherine Seelye also weighs in about the launch of Conde Nast Portfolio in Monday’s newspaper. Seelye wrote that editor Joanne Lipman told another editor at the magazine that she empathized with the Meryl Streep character in “The Devil wears Prada” and that the Kurt Eichenwald piece on terrorism was held out […]
TheStreet.com wants to boost site traffic
Amanda Fung of Crain’s New York Business writes that business news and investing web site TheStreet.com needs to increase its site traffic to catch up with other online financial news sites. Her story was partially based on an interview with Steven Elkes, the site’s new executive vice president of mergers and acquisitions. Fung wrote, “The […]
Making fun of the WSJ's "What's News" box
TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs is a bit sarcastic in his tone Monday about an item he saw in the Wall Street Journal’s “What’s News” box on the front page. Fuchs wrote, “In the ‘What’s News‘ section of The Wall Street Journal’s front page, the paper’s top editors — those hard-bitten souls who have seen all there […]
Barron's profile of Home Depot CEO falls into old trap of biz journalism
TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs critiques the profile of new Home Depot CEO Frank Blake in the latest issue of Barron’s and comes away with the impression that it’s a story that would have been right at home in the 1990s, when business journalists were making rock stars out of CEOs. Fuchs wrote, “If you ever read […]
