CNBC's Gasparino in tiff with NYT's Sorkin over book passage
John Cook of Gawker writes that CNBC‘s Charles Gasparino is upset about a reference to him in the book about the Wall Street turmoil of the past year by Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times. Cook writes, “For all his bluster, Gasparino can be a bit thin-skinned. His primary beef with Sorkin is over […]
CNBC now has iPhone app
CNBC announced Monday that it has launched an application for iPhone users. Users can access live streaming, real-time stock quotes, before, during and after market hours, directly from both the NYSE and NASDAQ. Additionally, the app provides users with breaking news alerts and analysis as well as the ability to create and track their favorite […]
Fox Biz's Gray on covering biz news
David Bracken of The (Raleigh) News & Observer interviewed Robert Gray of Fox Business Network about his job. Gray is a North Carolina native. Here is an excerpt: Q: What was it like covering the crisis on Wall Street last year? Living in New York, you’re so close to the story. I can remember the […]
As Dow passes 10,000, Petallides of Fox Business talks the beat
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Nicole Petallides is the floor correspondent at the New York Stock Exchange for Fox Business Network. Prior to joining Fox, she was an anchor at Bloomberg Television where she reported from the New York Stock Exchange for the nationally syndicated shows, Bloomberg Business Report and Bloomberg Market Update. While at Bloomberg, […]
WSJ names markets czar
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson sent the following e-mail to the paper’s staff on Wednesday: “I’m delighted to announce that Grainne McCarthy will be leading an integrated team to make our markets coverage more insightful, as well as faster-paced — or in the phraseology of our age, real-time. As […]
The problem with stock outlook stories
Hal Morris, writing Thursday on his Grumpy Editor blog, has problems with a Wall Street Journal article that lumps all real estate investment trusts together in an outlook piece when many of them have different strategies. Morris writes, “After noting REITs have rebounded big from their recent lows and ‘the sector is trading at a […]
The art of the CEO interview
Jon Friedman of Marketwatch.com has a nice interview with financial journalist Duff McDonald about his new book, “Last Man Standing,” about J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. What’s most intriguing is how McDonald got Dimon to open up about his former mentor, Sandy Weill. Friedman writes, “McDonald recognized that Dimon would be guarded when it […]
Was Taibbi a hoax victim?
Former BusinessWeek writer Gary Weiss believes that Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi, who has been writing about the financial crisis and Wall Street, has become the victim of a hoax about short selling. Weiss writes, “Two things struck me as odd about this whole situation. One is that naked shorting conspiracy theorists, who you’d expect […]
The rise of financial blogs
Joe Hagan of New York magazine writes about how financial blogs have become more powerful in influencing the markets and what we think about them, particularly the Zero Hedge blog run by a 30-year-old Bulgarian immigrant banned from working in the brokerage business for insider trading. Hagan writes, “Financial blogs grew out of the message […]
WSJ story has same angle as one three months earlier
Hal Morris, writing on his Grumpyeditor.com blog, noted that a story in The Wall Street Journal’s Money & Investing section on Monday had the same angle on the market as a story that ran three months before. Morris writes, “Is the Bull Pulling Up Lame? was the main line in the June 22 edition with […]
