Are biz sources being silenced?
Bill Fleckenstein, who runs a hedge fund in Seattle and writes a column for MSN Money, believes that some hedge fund managers are no longer willing to talk on the record to business journalists because of the recent push by some companies to threaten hedge funds with litigation when they are discussed in a negative […]
MarketWatch's Barnako to begin blogging
MarketWatch writer Frank Barnako, who began writing “Internet Daily” for the business news Web site in 1998, is now becoming the first blogger for Dow Jones. He begins his own blog on Barnako.com on Thursday. Barnako writes, “My background is radio, with its frequent deadlines and fast reporting. That’s the kind of blog I’ll write […]
Carol Loomis to receive SABEW award
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers selected Carol Junge Loomis, a journalistic fixture at Fortune magazine who’s often regarded as the best business writer in the United States, as this year’s recipient of the group’s Distinguished Achievement Award. Loomis, 76, has worked at Fortune for 52 years and has kicked corporate shins for […]
Dow CEO: Ad linage at WSJ up in first two months
New Dow Jones CEO Richard Zannino said Wednesday at an investor conference that advertising for the company’s flagship Wall Street Journal newspaper has been up 13 percent in the first two months. Dwight Ostricher of Dow Jones Newswire reports, “‘We took meaningful market share away from our primary print competitors in 2005 and so far […]
Friedman: CNBC playing a dangerous game
MarketWatch media columnist Jon Friedman laments what is happening on CNBC, particularly the stock portfolio contest that is being launched. Friedman argues that the stock contest takes away from the business cable network’s serious approach to covering news. Friedman writes, “But I contend that CNBC is playing a dangerous game by messing with its image […]
WSJ is a beacon compared to Yahoo! and Google Finance
Christine Brendle, the managing director of Wall Street Journal Asia, is not worried that the business newspaper faces increased competition from online finance Web sites such as Yahoo! and Google Finance, launched last week. In an interview in India, Brendle said, “When people get on Google or Yahoo or when they get on the Net, […]
Dow Jones Internet strategy is tepid
The Media Stock Blog, which gives no buy or sell recommendations, has a post from Douglas McIntyre, the former editor and publisher of Financial World magazine, that criticizes Dow Jones and its lackluster attempts at utilizing the Internet to keep its business journalism franchise going. McIntyre writes, “Dow Jones has clearly been caught in the […]
SEC chairman to speak at SABEW conference
Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission that’s embroiled in a media-rights dispute, on May 1 will speak to the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. The SEC in February subpoenaed two business reporters, touching off a furor in the journalism industry over press freedom. Cox later rebuked […]
Coverage of NCAA tournament productivity story is bogus
Jack Shafer of Slate laments the recent coverage that a number of business sections have given to a recent study predicting the billions of dollars in lost productivity from workers watching the NCAA basketball tournament on their computers — or at bars outside of the workplace. Shafer notes, “Such prominent news sources as the Arkansas […]
More coverage of the Overstock.com vs. biz journalists battle
San Diego Union-Tribune staff writer Bruce Bigelow wades into the coverage of the battle between Overstock.com President Patrick Byrne and business reporters such as MarketWatch.com’s Herb Greenberg and Mad Money’s Jim Cramer with an article exploring both sides of the issue. To set the stage: Greenberg and Cramer have written and stated negative things about […]
