The making of a Loeb Award winner
The Charlotte Observer’s business desk received a Loeb Award, considered the Pulitzer Prizes of business journalism, earlier this week for its coverage of homebuilder Beazer Homes and its role in the subprime loan crisis. The Loeb judges praised the series, writing, “In this year-long series, the writers unraveled the story of the subprime mortgage crisis […]
Growth in specialty business publications
In a little-noticed deal outside of mainstream business journalism, Haymarket Media Inc. agreed last week to acquire Compliance Week from Boston-based Financial Media Holdings for an undisclosed amount. The deal is expected to close on July 1. Compliance Week is a six-year-old monthly publication that covers corporate governance for executives at public companies. It also puts […]
SABEW prez: Newsrooms not investing in biz journalism that readers need
Bernie Kohn, assistant managing editor for business at the Baltimore Sun, became the president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in late April. As a result, Kohn oversees the largest organization of business journalists in the country at a time when the field is in upheaval. Most newspapers have cut printed stock […]
BusinessWeek.com chief: We need to think more about our audience
John Byrne is the executive editor of BusinessWeek and the editor in chief of BusinessWeek.com, meaning that he’s in charge of the magazine’s strategy of increasing editorial content to attract more readers to its Web site. Byrne’s transformation from one of the country’s top print business journalist to online guru wasn’t easy — or overnight. […]
Personal finance columnist: Cutting stock listings long overdue
Personal finance columnist Scott Burns took a buyout from the Dallas Morning News in 2006, but he continues to write his syndicated column while also working as the chief investment strategist at AssetBuilder Inc., an investment adviser. Burns graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in humanities and biology. He began his newspaper […]
Gasparino: Covering Wall Street is like watching a big party
As the on-air editor at CNBC, Charles Gasparino reports on the markets throughout the day and has broken some of the biggest stories in the past few months. He is also a columnist for Trader Monthly Magazine, and a freelance writer for New York Magazine, Forbes and other publications. Before joining CNBC, Gasparino was a […]
CNBC’s Liesman on covering the economy
As CNBC‘s senior economics reporter, Steve Liesman reports on all aspects of the economy including the Federal Reserve Bank and major economic indicators. He appears on “Squawk Box” as well as other CNBC programs throughout the day. Liesman joined CNBC from The Wall Street Journal where he served as a senior economics reporter covering monetary […]
Herb Greenberg talks business journalism
Herb Greenberg is senior columnist for MarketWatch and is one of the top business journalists in the country because of his investigative reporting on companies. His column also appears in the weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal. He joined MarketWatch after six years as senior columnist for TheStreet.com. He previously spent 10 years as […]
The Economist and the United States
Paul Rossi, the North American publisher for the Economist, talked to Talking Biz News about the British magazine’s growth in the United States and other issues. The Economist’s statement for the first six months of the year shows the magazine at a circulation of 694,345 in North America, up 15.6 percent from the prior year. Newsstand sales […]
BloggingStocks.com undergoes a redesign
Marty Moe, vice president and general manager of AOL Money & Finance, Small Business, and Education, oversees the BloggingStocks.com web site that recently underwent a redesign. He talked with Talking Biz News about the changes via e-mail. What follows is an edited transcript. 1. What prompted the redesign? After more than a year of running […]
