How MT Newswires provides news to investors
Brooks McFeely is the founder and chief executive officer of MT Newswires, which started in 1999 to provide news about why stocks were moving in after-hours trading and has now expanded to covering news throughout the trading day. A Naval Academy graduate and U.S. Navy veteran, McFeely served at Brunswick Naval Air Station and aboard […]
How one business journalist has covered Brexit
Ashley Webster joined Fox Business Network in September 2007 as the overseas markets editor. Webster spent the previous 10 years as the main anchor of the Emmy Award-winning nightly newscast on WZTV-TV in Nashville, Tennessee. Before joining WZTV-TV, Webster was anchor for two daily newscasts at WGBA-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin. There, he received an […]
How a biz reporter tackled covering the gaming industry
Roland Li is a reporter for the San Francisco Business Times covering real estate and economic development. Li is also the author of “Good Luck Have Fun: The Rise of eSports,” released earlier this month from Skyhorse Publishing. This is the most comprehensive history of the growth of the competitive gaming industry, including interviews with over […]
The 22-year-old tech reporting legend Mark Gurman
Mark Gurman started covering Apple before the first iPad was released — and when he was in high school — and has gone on to the break the news about several new iPhone, iPad, and Mac products, while also providing in-depth previews of upcoming software and services releases. While writing for 9to5Mac, Gurman has also taken a […]
Meet Adam Sichko, ACBJ’s best beat reporter for the year
Adam Sichko is a senior reporter for the Nashville Business Journal, an American City Business Journals paper, and last month he was named one of two best beat reporters at company. (The other is Matthew Kish of the Portland Business Journal, who won in 2015 and whom we interviewed then.) Sichko covers commercial real estate […]
How a hedge fund manager launched a biz journalism media start-up
Jonathan Spitzer is the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of CTFN, which covers mergers and acquisitions and major corporate news from a professional investor’s point of view. Spitzer was a merger arbitrage research analyst for Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Advisers from 1999 to 2005, and co-portfolio manager of the Merger Arbitrage Group at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder […]
Amy Resnick on issues facing women in biz journalism
Amy Resnick is the editor of Pensions & Investments, based in the paper’s New York City office. She joined the Crain’s publication in 2012 as executive editor. A veteran financial journalist, she previously worked as Americas editor at IFR magazine, a Thomson Reuters publication focused on capital formation. Prior to that, she spent 15 years at […]
Helaine Olen talks personal finance journalism
Helaine Olen is columnist at Slate and one of the leading personal finance journalists in the country. She’s the author of “Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry” and co-author (with Harold Pollack) of “The Index Card.” At Inc., she contributes to the Spread the Wealth personal finance column. Her work on […]
How a business journalist wrote a book about M&A
Robert Teitelman was the founding editor of The Daily Deal and the The Deal magazine, and the longtime author of the magazine’s opening column, “Transactions.” Prior to The Deal, he was a writer at Forbes and the editor of Institutional Investor magazine. Besides the recent “Bloodsport: When Ruthless Dealmakers, Shrewd Ideologues, and Brawling Lawyers Toppled […]
Liz Claman on the art of covering Warren Buffett
Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman will interview Berkshire Hathaway executives Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, as well as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, on the air on Monday at 3 p.m. This past weekend, she covered Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in Omaha. Claman joined Fox Business in 2007, and her first interview for the network was Buffett. Claman, who […]
