Consuelo Mack and investment advice on television
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Consuelo Mack is anchor and managing editor of “Consuelo Mack WealthTrack,” a weekly, half-hour public television program started in 2005 that appears on 98 stations across the country. Before developing “WealthTrack,” Mack spent more than a decade at The Wall Street Journal as the anchor and managing Editor of its weekly […]
Business news on the radio
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Al Mayers is the general manager for Bloomberg Radio, the 24-hour, digital all-news business radio station. Bloomberg Radio recently launched the new “Bloomberg Businessweek Radio” show, airing Friday evenings at 8 p.m. and Saturdays at 8 a.m. on WBBR 1130 AM in New York as well as Sirius XM across the […]
Savannah daily finds success with standalone weekly biz tabloid
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Last month, the Washington Post raised eyebrows in the business journalism field with the launch of its weekly business news tabloid, Capital Business, that is separate from the daily newspaper. But it wasn’t the first daily to take such a step. The Savannah Morning News, a Morris newspaper, launched Business in […]
Behind the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's prize-winning flipping series
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The Sarasota Herald-Tribune series on real estate flipping has garnered a lot of attention in the past few weeks. It was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and on Friday, it received a National Journalism Award from the Scripps-Howard Foundation. The Herald-Tribune reviewed approximately 19 million Florida real estate transactions to […]
BusinessWeek introduces redesigned magazine; Editor Tyrangiel talks change
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The job facing Bloomberg BusinessWeek editor Josh Tyrangiel since he took over running the magazine in December was to make the weekly glossy more appealing to readers and advertisers. On Thursday, the redesigned magazine was unveiled, marking Tyrangiel’s biggest move in accomplishing that task. One staff member told Talking Biz News: […]
Washington Biz Journal editor talks redesign, new competition
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE On Friday, the Washington Business Journal will unveil a redesign, its first in five years and just 10 days before the Washington Post launches a competing weekly business newspaper called Capital Business. In addition, the Business Journal could face additional competition from the owner of Politico, which is planning to launch […]
No shouting on the air for Bloomberg TV's Brennan
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Margaret Brennan is the anchor of “InBusiness with Margaret Brennan,” a daily business program on Bloomberg Television focusing on global markets and the day’s top geopolitical, economic and consumer trends. To do that, she’s traveled the world. In January, Brennan hosted Bloomberg Television’s first live broadcast from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where […]
A "knowledgation officer's" response to meager questions
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Lauren Heishman is the chief executive strategic knowlegation officer of Heishman-Flillard, which is on Twitter and Facebook. In a recent Facebook post, Heishman wrote, “Loving this wild new website — Faceburst. It’s neat. We even created a page for Heishman’s throngs of admirers.” When you send Heishman an e-mail, you get […]
MacDonald on covering the markets, breaking the news
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Elizabeth MacDonald is the stocks editor at Fox Business Network, but she covers more than the markets. In January, she questioned whether health reform is constitutional based on the interstate commerce clause — a story followed this past week by the Washington Post. And earlier this month, McDonald reported about how […]
Hudson: I hope to be at Nightly Business Report for 30 years as well
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Tom Hudson became the co-anchor of Miami-based “Nightly Business Report” on PBS stations in early January, replacing Paul Kangas, who had been an anchor on the show for its first 30 years. Hudson came from the Midwest. He previously was at Chicago-based “First Business,” where Hudson played a leading role in […]
