Interview with Blackstone’s Peter Rose
Peter Rose, head of public affairs for private-equity firm The Blackstone Group LP, started his role in 2007 after 20 years at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Rose was tapped in 1996 to start Goldman’s public relations office after serving as a political analyst and lobbyist in their DC office. He moved to Asia in 1998 […]
The reasoning behind biz news site Quartz
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Kevin Delaney is the editor of Quartz, a new business news site coming in September from Atlantic Media. It is located in New York, with offices opening soon in Asia and Europe. Delaney came to Atlantic Media from The Wall Street Journal, where he served as managing editor of The Wall […]
How to win a Loeb Award
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Spencer Soper of The Allentown Morning Call in Pennsylvania received a Gerald Loeb Award last week for his coverage of working conditions at an Amazon.com warehouse in the state. Soper also writes On The Cheap, a column featuring the clever and quirky things people do to save money, and Valley Business […]
The back story behind the Upstart Business Journal
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE American City Business Journals, which operates 40 weekly business newspapers across the country, made a big change to one of its web operations earlier this week. On Wednesday, the Charlotte-based company rolled out the Upstart Business Journal, which replaced Portfolio.com, a business news site. The new site is focusing on business […]
Covering the Facebook IPO
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE CNBC media and entertainment reporter Julia Boorstin is one of the dozens of business journalists covering the biggest business news story of the week — the initial public offering of Facebook. Boorstin joined CNBC in May 2006 as a general assignment reporter. In December 2006, Boorstin became CNBC’s media and entertainment […]
The business of covering tech at GeekWire
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE In March 2011, two business journalists who left the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2008 to start the TechFlash site for the Puget Sound Business Journal struck out on their own with the help of investors. Todd Bishop and John Cook started GeekWire, a Seattle-based news site that covers the tech industry. As […]
A sustainable business news model
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Christina Williams is the editor of Sustainable Business Oregon, a website and print publication launched in 2010 that is operated by American City Business Journals. The mission of the publication is to cover the news and issues of interest to businesses that are engaged in the sustainable economy. For Oregon, sustainability […]
Bloomberg’s Keene talks Davos coverage
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Bloomberg TV and Radio host Tom Keene will deliver his programs “Bloomberg Surveillance”and “Surveillance Midday” starting Wednesday live from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the gathering of some of the world’s most powerful people. Keene is editor of “Flying on One Engine: The Bloomberg Book of Master Market Economists,” published in […]
How writing books helps a business journalist develop his craft
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Paul Barrett is an assistant managing editor and senior feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, a position he assumed in September 2005. He is responsible for writing cover articles on subjects that range from the energy industry to the gun business. Prior to joining Bloomberg Businessweek, Barrett was an editor and legal […]
The genesis of hard-hitting, analytical sports business coverage
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Abe Madkour is the executive editor of the Sports Business Journal, an American City Business Journals publication that covers sports like it was an industry, focusing on contracts, deals, people losing jobs and other business-related news. For example, one of the main stories on its website Tuesday was one detailing how […]
