Where business editors, and newspapers, are failing
What follows is an anonymous submission to Talking Biz News. The writer is a well-known person in business journalism and has been a reporter, columnist and editor of a daily newspaper business section, and someone I have known for the past five years. The writer wishes to remain anonymous at this time due to his […]
WSJ, Marketwatch union: Company becoming impatient
An update posted on the web site of the union that represents business journalists working at The Wall Street Journal, Marketwatch, Dow Jones Newswires and Barron’s stated that the Dow Jones negotiators are becoming impatient in recent contract negotiations. The update stated, “They told us at our four-hour bargaining session on Tuesday January 9th that […]
Jobs being cut at Dow Jones Newswires
Dow Jones plans to cut an undisclosed number of jobs at its Newswire operations as part of a restructuring that also includes its Factiva operations, according to a Bloomberg story. The Bloomberg story stated, “The number of positions to be eliminated will be announced at a company meeting this morning, a spokeswoman, Diane Thieke, said. […]
Business journalists act like stenographers sometimes
TheStreet.com’s Mark Fuchs wonders why business journalists, especially those who work at the wires, act like stenographers when breaking news occurs. Fuchs wrote, “A press release hits the wires at 8:30 a.m. EST on Friday. It travels into the public consciousness, and within 90 minutes, four news outlets write several sentences each on it. Boys […]
Friedman: Cramer is better in print
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman, whose column last year about “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer sparked a bevy of reader e-mails, returns again to Cramer on Friday and notes that his writing in New York magazine is much more palatable. Friedman wrote, “I much prefer Cramer’s Dr. Jekyll incarnation, as the restrained, informative author of […]
Who paid for union ad in New York Times?
As noted earlier, the union representing business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch and Dow Jones Newswire ran an ad in the New York Times on Tuesday about the redesigned Journal and its current negotiations with parent company Dow Jones. Apparently the union, the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, has received a few […]
Get to know your biz reporter better
A Red Herring story that discusses how Dow Jones is making videos from The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch available on blinkx and Lycos talks about using its business journalists more for the medium. Michael Cohn wrote, “Dow Jones has also been working on enlisting the entire news staff on developing original video content. […]
WSJ and Barron's videos now searchable
Red Herring is reporting that Dow Jones properties Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch are now providing their videos available by video search company blinkx and its customer Lycos. Michael Cohn wrote, “While most of the content on the Wall Street Journal Online as well as Barron’s Online is available by paid subscription only, the […]
Study at Dow Jones evaluating news gathering
A Bloomberg story that was based on interviews with Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger and publisher Gordon Crovitz noted that there is currently an internal study being led to determine how to “coordinate” news gathering. Reporter Leon Lazaroff wrote, “Dow Jones plans to streamline news operations across the Journal, Newswires, MarketWatch and Barron’s. […]
Union slams decision to run breakingviews.com column in WSJ
The union that represents journalists who work for The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Dow Jones Newswires and MarketWatch criticized a decision by parent company Dow Jones to run a column from Breakingviews.com every day in the Journal. Union president Steve Yount, in a statement posted on its web site, stated that the move “move that […]
