Friedman: Fortune proves biz journalism is not dull
MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman spent some time assessing Fortune magazine, and he argues that the publication, despite some turmoil, has shown how exciting business journalism can be. Friedman writes, “Pooley is so proud of the issue that he can’t resist the urge to kick sand in his foe’s face. ‘BusinessWeek didn’t reach a conclusion about where […]
Interpreting the new Fed isn't clear yet
With new Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke, the investing world has had to learn how to decpiher his public statements and understand what he, and the Federal Open Market Committee, is saying when it announces its rate decisions. Business journalists, after 17 years of interpreting former chairman Alan Greenspan, now have the same task. […]
What Rukeyser could teach, and has taught TV biz reporters
MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman notes that there are some television business journalists who could learn by watching tapes of former Wall Street Week host Louis Rukeyser, and some who obviously have learned a thing or two from the recently deceased business journalism pioneer. Friedman writes, “CNBC would virtually perform a public service by making Dylan Ratigan […]
The point of reading business news
Rocky Mountain News business editor Rob Reuteman, who is a SABEW board member, has a nice round-up of the ethical discussion surrounding using short sellers as sources from last weekend’s Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ annual conference in his Saturday column. Reuteman’s analysis is that SEC Chairman Christopher Cox tried to suck up […]
Forbes is in the image of brash editor Baldwin
MarketWatch columnist Jon Friedman interveiwed Forbes editor William Baldwin earlier this week and found him to be brash. One example: Baldwin immediately admitted that he didn’t read Friedman’s column on the media. Friedman wrote that the business magazine is produced in the same image as Baldwin, full of competitive energy and wanting to beat others […]
A tribute to Rukeyser
Marshall Loeb, the former managing editor of Fortune and Money magazines who now writes a column for MarketWatch, lauded former Wall Street Week founder Louis Rukeyser, who died earlier this week. Loeb wrote, “When Louis Rukeyser entered the world of TV business journalism in 1970, it was Ptolemaic. When he left us this week, it […]
More takes on the SEC and subpoenas
A number of newspapers this morning have coverage of SEC chairman Christopher Cox’s speech and Q&A at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ annual conference in Minneapolis. The issue is whether the SEC should subpoena business journalists as part of its investigations, as it did earlier this year with MarketWatch’s Herb Greenberg and […]
More on Cox talk at SABEW
SEC Commissioner Christopher Cox chose his speech to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers to disclose that the regulatory agency was thinking about requiring companies to disclose more tax information, according to an Associated Press report. According to an article written by AP reporter Joshua Freed, “SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said he discussed […]
Herb asks, and SEC chairman Cox answers
At the SABEW conference in Minneapolis on Monday, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox spoke about regulation and about the agency’s new rules regarding subpoenas of business journalists as part of investigations. MarketWatch columnist Herb Greenberg, who was one of the journalists subpoenaed by the agency, asked Cox the first question after his speech. According to the […]
Anti-naked short faction attacking biz journalists
The Sanity Check web site, which is one of the vehicles used by the anti-naked short selling campaign, is posting Monday comments made at a panel at the SABEW conference in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Sunday. Business editor Dan Colarusso from the New York Post is quoted as saying at a panel on the battle between […]
