Business news sites gained traffic in August, yearly data strong
Five business news sites were among the top 30 sites in terms of traffic gained in August, according to data from TNS Media. BusinessWeek magazine saw a 21 percent gain to 5.7 million viewers from July. Its viewership is now up 52 percent for the past year. Only three other sites saw a bigger increase […]
The pain from BusinessWeek
Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman writes Tuesday about the pain being endured at McGraw-Hill from its ownership of struggling BusinessWeek. Friedman writes, “Sure, the McGraw-Hill weekly financial-news magazine and Web site have a strong reputation. But McGraw-Hill put them on the block a few weeks ago, in a sign that the profit-fixated company may eventually […]
PR and news under one Dow Jones roof
I discovered today that in addition to owning The Wall Street Journal, Marketwatch.com, Barron’s and Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones & Co. also has a public relations consulting business. The business is called Dow Jones PR & Corporate Communications Solutions, and it provides analysis of media and social networks for organizations that want to know […]
Who will be No. 1 at CNBC?
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman writes Friday that the biggest decision for new CNBC senior vice president Jeremy Pink is to determine who will be its No. 1 anchor — Maria Bartiromo or Erin Burnett. Friedman writes, “Pink will show his hand by deciding which of the network’s two very popular anchors will get the […]
Marshall Loeb turns 80
Marshall Loeb, the former editor of Fortune and Money and now a columnist for Marketwatch.com, writes about his six-decade career Tuesday as he celebrates his 80th birthday. Loeb writes, “Let me share with you what I think have been the most significant stories that I have been fortunate enough to cover in these past six […]
Friedman: No biz magazine is safe
Jon Friedman of Marketwatch writes Monday that the fact that McGraw-Hill is trying to sell BusinessWeek shows that no publication should be safe. Friedman, a former BusinessWeek writer, writes, “No matter how glorious or storied your history might be, what matters now is your ability to sell ads in a prolonged downturn and capitalize on […]
Three of top 10 media events in past decade were biz journalism
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman, celebrating his 10th year as a media writer, compiles his list of the top 10 most intriguing events in the industry in the past decade, and three of them are business journalism related. Here they are: 3. The acquisition of Dow Jones: News Corp. accomplished the unthinkable by scooping up the company […]
What would Rukeyser do?
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman speculates Friday about how former television business journalist Louis Rukeyser, who died in 2006 at the age of 73, would have covered the current financial crisis. Friedman writes, “Today, Rukeyser would have been just as popular as he was in his heyday. His time-honored approach would never go out of […]
Friedman: Cramer back to old ways
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman writes Wednesday that he believes CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer has been unaffected by the recent attacks to his program and the network. Friedman writes, “For better or worse, Cramer is back to his pre-Stewart ways. If Stewart fretted that Cramer had helped turn the stock market into a […]
Dow Jones cuts future benefits
Robert MacMillian of Reuters has posted a memo from Dow Jones & Co. CEO Les Hinton that explains how the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, Marketwatch and Dow Jones Newswires is cutting back on its benefits. In the memo, Hinton states, “The Money Purchase Plan will be frozen as of July 3, 2009. […]
