WSJ.com offering free, live video on Tuesday
Although News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch, who now owns The Wall Street Journal, has said that most of its web content will remain behind a pay wall, the paper is offering free, live video online on Tuesday for the first time. The paper will offer free, live video during its coverage of the Super Tuesday primaries. The […]
Greenberg puts pressure on retail CEOs
Jack Flack of Conde Nast Portfolio writes Sunday how Marketwatch columnist Herb Greenberg has put pressure on the CEOs of Office Depot and Circuit City, whom he named as candidates to be the worst CEO of the year, along with the recently fired CEO of Sears. Flack wrote, “But Greenberg’s column, if institutionalized as an […]
Marketwatch and Minyanville to share content
Business and financial news Web sites Marketwatch and Minyanville have struck an agreement to share content, according to a release. Links to all Minyanville articles mentioning specific public companies will now appear in news results on MarketWatch.com‘s stock quote pages. Concurrently, Minyanville users can now access MarketWatch stock quote pages directly from the Minyanville home […]
WSJ signs ad deal with Microsoft
Microsoft Corp. will become the new provider of paid search and contextual advertising links on sites run by The Wall Street Journal, the companies announced Tuesday, according to an AP story. The story stated, “Contextual ads appear as text links at the bottom of stories viewed on the Journal’s Web site, WSJ.com, inside a box […]
What me? Too negative?
Herb Greenberg of Marketwatch writes Monday about being called too negative in his coverage of the economy and the markets. Greenberg wrote, “As Barry writes in his own blog, to refute the Times piece and Paul’s ill-timed pontification: Per the IRS, I’m a reporter, which by its very nature means I’m skeptical. I have a […]
Greenberg's great, but not when speculating
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs lauds Marketwatch business columnist Herb Greenberg, but says he temporarily went bad with his latest. Fuchs wrote, “The Business Press Maven, with his experience on both Wall Street and in journalism, is obviously very critical of the business media, which have turned my soul into unadulterated rot. But if more […]
BusinessWeek needs to prove itself to readers
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman, himself a former BusinessWeek writer, comments Monday that the magazine needs to prove itself to readers again to be relevant. Friedman wrote, “If BusinessWeek published this column, I’m afraid that its cover blurb might say, in typical BW-speak, ‘Would anyone miss this magazine if it went away?’ “Yes, I’m joking […]
Top business journalism events of 2007
Yes, I hate lists, especially lists disguised as business journalism, an all-to-common sight these days. But I think as the years go by and we look back, we’ll see 2007 as a defining year in the world of business journalism because of the dramatic changes that took place. So, here is my list of the […]
Media can't understand NYT results
TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs is disappointed Wednesday that the business media covering the revenue uptick at The New York Times can’t seem to understand that the reason it happened was due to an extra week and a product coming out earlier. Fuchs wrote, “Forbes, which mercifully managed to mention the extra week and product, was possibly, […]
Thomson Financial gears up U.S. business and markets coverage
While its parent company works on finalizing its deal to acquire Reuters, Thomson Financial has been building a team of reporters and editors to cover the U.S. stock market and launched coverage for European and Asian customers in October, reports Michael Baron, co-managing editor of U.S. equities. Baron told Talking Biz News: “We’re building a […]
