NPR ombudsman questions sponsorship of "Planet Money"
National Public Radio ombudsman Alicia Shepard investigated the sponsorships by a financial services company of NPR’s “Planet Money” blog and show. Shepard writes, “Ally’s relationship with NPR is a new one in an era when NPR, like other news organizations, is finding it necessary to search for new revenue streams. At NPR, sponsor credits typically […]
Former BW columnist Marcial lands at DailyFinance.com
Keith Kelly of the New York Post reports that former BusinessWeek columnist Gene Marcial, who wrote a weekly column about Wall Street but was laid off when the magazine was acquired by Bloomberg LP, has found a new job writing for DailyFinance.com. Marcial had written his column for BusinessWeek since 1981. Before that, he worked […]
Cavuto talks business journalism
Fox Business Network‘s Neil Cavuto talkes with NewsPro’s Elizabeth Jensen about how he got into business journalism and other parts of his career. Here is an excerpt: NewsPro: Viewer interest in business television tends to go up with the market, and down with it as well; consumer viewers just don’t want to be reminded of […]
Google starts streaming business news
Search engine Google has started streaming financial stories and headlines on its investor site, stepping up competition with business-news services, writes Connie Guglielmo of Bloomberg. Guglielmo writes, “News items on the Google Finance home page and Google’s news page are now updated automatically, ‘as they develop minute by minute, throughout the day,’ without users having […]
Fox Biz's Bolling: You have to have skin in the game
Fox Business Network’s Eric Bolling talking with Wall St. Cheat Sheet’s Damien Hoffman about his career as a financial journalist and how it evolved out of his trading career. In the interview, Bolling stated: 1. “I helped launch Fast Money and really loved it. I had fun sitting on the Fast Money panel talking about […]
Financial news site Seeking Alpha completes $7 million in funding
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Stock market and financial news site Seeking Alpha recently completed a $7 million round of funding, led by new investor DAG Ventures with full participation from existing investors Benchmark & Accel, according to CEO and founder David Jackson. “This round provides us with a strong capital base to support our innovation and […]
Analyst to restrict media access
Banking analyst Richard Bove plans to restrict his appearances on business news channels such as CNBC and Fox Business Network and limit journalist access to his research reports, writes Brendan Conway of Dow Jones Newswires. Conway writes, “Selected reports will be available to the media on a case-by-case basis. But the full research reports will […]
Gasparino: We failed, but so did everybody else
CNBC‘s Charles Gasparino was on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday, where host Howard Kurtz asked him about coverage of the financial meltdown. Here is an excerpt: GASPARINO: We all failed. Now, that is true. But remember the context I gave you. And here’s the problem. Here’s my problem with blaming the press. Now, you know, […]
Cable news and the financial crisis
Kevin Allocca of TVNewser attended a panel on how cable television covered the financial crisis of the past 18 month at Bloomberg’s New York office and filed this report. Allocca writes, “Bloomberg TV’s Margaret Brennan facilitated the audience Q&A, but first had an interesting question of her own: what role did financial cable news play […]
Krugman: Fox Business not pro-business, but pro-Republican
New York Times political and economics columnist Paul Krugman argues that Fox Business Network is more of a pro-Republican network like Fox News than it is the pro-business network it purports to be. Krugman writes, “To make their point they bring on such market experts as … John Bolton. As Wolcott writes, ‘It takes more […]
