How a biz journalist wrote a book with a short leave
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE For Loren Steffy, the business columnist for the Houston Chronicle, the past six months has been a whirlwind. Steffy has written a book, published earlier this month by McGraw-Hill, called “Drowning in Oil: BP and the Reckless Pursuit of Profit.” The reporting began shortly after the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil […]
Sorkin talks Dealbook's changes and business journalism
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE New York Times business reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin founded the Dealbook blog and daily e-mail back in 2001, when such dissemination strategies for business news were in their infancy. Since that time, Dealbook’s readership has exploded — it has more than 200,000 subscribers to the daily e-mail newsletter, and more than […]
The midterm elections from a business perspective
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Fox Business Network anchor and managing editor Neil Cavuto will be hosting the network’s election night coverage on Tuesday beginning at 6 p.m. Cavuto will lead the coverage from New York City, where he will be joined by various economists, business professionals, CEOs, politicians and financial experts to discuss the economic […]
Understanding the Forbes redesign
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Forbes magazine unveiled a redesigned publication on Thursday, as well as an updated to its Web site, that changes how a magazine presents information to readers. For example, comments from readers, instead of being lumped in the “Letters” section of a magazine, are now taken from the Web and included in […]
TheStreet.com aims to take business news to a new level
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Editor’s note: This is the fourth interview in a series of discussions with top people in business journalism to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Talking Biz News. Glenn Hall is the editor of TheStreet.com, the financial news site started in November 1996. He oversees oversee news coverage for TheStreet.com’s network of […]
WSJ's digital ops will eventually be larger than print
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of interviews with major players in business journalism to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Talking Biz News. As executive editor of WSJ.com, Alan Murray oversees the digital operations of The Wall Street Journal, which has more than 1 million subscribers to its […]
Fox Business Network’s Magee: Everything has a business angle
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of interviews with major players in business journalism to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Talking Biz News. As the executive vice president of Fox Business Network, Kevin Magee is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the business news channel. Named senior vice […]
MarketWatch.com brings real-time financial news to the masses
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Editor’s note: As part of its five-year anniversary, Talking Biz News will be posting interviews with top business journalists every day this week. Here is the first one. David Callaway is editor in chief of MarketWatch.com, responsible for the day-to-day coverage from a team of about 100 journalists on three continents. […]
The life of a freelance biz reporter, aka getting your life back
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Heidi N. Moore has been a financial reporter for more than a decade, working in such newsrooms as Institutional Investor, The Deal and The Wall Street Journal. But in May 2009, Moore struck out on her own and became a freelance business journalist. Since then, she has written and reported on […]
Life as a business editor in a small city
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The decisions and issues facing a business editor in a smaller city are much different than, say, the business editor of The New York Times. For Ron Bartizek, the business editor at the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the biggest issue is sometimes finding a reporter willing to take on a business story […]
