How does Herb Greenberg do his job
Marketwatch columnist Herb Greenberg responded to a reader on his blog who wanted to know how he conducts his reporting on a day-to-say basis. Specifically, the reader wanted to know whether Greenberg takes the time to try to contact a company when he is presenting a veiwpoint about that company gleaned from a short seller, […]
Hearings on short selling
Today’s hearings on short selling should be interesting for business journalists in the wake of recent allegations that some reporters have been in cahoots with hedge funds and others who short stocks to drive down the price of shares. Former BusinessWeek reporter Gary Weiss has a couple of nice postings about the hearings and notes […]
Barnako disagrees with Friedman about Cramer
Marketwatch columnist Frank Barnako disagrees with fellow columnist Jon Friedman, who wrote last week that CNBC’s Jim Cramer was an embarrassment. Barnako wrote, “Friedman says ‘shame’ on Cramer for putting some life into Mad Money. Sure, the creator of the Booyah Bear sometimes sounds like a barker on a carnival midway, but who’s he hurting? […]
Marketwatch journalists start blogging
Marketwatch columnists Herb Greenberg, Bambi Francisco and Frank Barnako have started blogging. Barnako’s blog is called the Media Blog, while Francisco’s is called Bambi’s Blog. Greenberg’s blog is called the Market Blog. All three are accessible from Marketwatch’s home page. Greenberg writes in the introduction of his blog this week that he expects his posts […]
Friedman: Jim Cramer has become an embarrassment
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman called out “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer, calling him an embarrassment. Friedman says he has no grudge against Friedman, and that CNBC probably hates him complaining, but the time has come to speak out. Cramer was once a distraction from the typical business journalism seen on TV, but now, wrote, […]
Conde Nast Portfolio shrewd at playing journalists for coverage
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman notes that the vast amounts of coverage being given the new Conde Nast business magazine has been primarily the result of the glossy playing journalists like a violin — my term, not his — by announcing the name, Portfolio, fully nine months before the first issue will hit newstands. Friedman […]
Jaffe: Demise of stock tables changes investing habits
MarketWatch columnist Chuck Jaffe, a former president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, writes a column Wednesday about the demise of stock tables within newspapers. He notes that he went to a SABEW conference about a decade ago when he was with the Boston Globe where the topic was discussed. When he […]
Adler shakes up BusinessWeek
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman continues his analysis of the business magazines with a column Friday on the changes that new editor Stephen Adler has made at BusinessWeek since he took over in 2005. It should be noted that Friedman once worked at BusinessWeek, as did I. Adler has had to overcome the perception that […]
Fast Company getting some help
MarketWatch media columnist Jon Friedman, continuing his weekly look at the business magazine industry, says that Fast Company magazine has overcome the loss of its top editor, John Byrne, who many feel left it abruptly last year to return to BusinessWeek. New editor Mark Vamos, who incidently worked with Byrne at BusinessWeek, has kept things […]
NY Post biz section is "out" for the summer
Marketwatch’s Richard Weidner writes about what is “in” and what is “out” for the summer for the typical Wall Street person. The New York Post business section is among the outs. Weidner writes, “Where’s all the scoops? The gossip? The Grasso-meter? Though it still has its moments — Wednesday’s scoop on Cendant Corp.’s travel business, […]
