Biz reporters and Sun Valley

Peter Kafka of All Things Digital writes about the business media’s coverage of the annual Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference, noting that the New York Times is noticeably absent. Kafka writes, “In truth, it’s debatable whether any news outlet has to be at Sun Valley: Some of the moguls use the opportunity to hold […]

Journalists spending too much time on Jobs' health

New York Times business columnist David Carr argues Monday that the media has spent too much time obsessing about the health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Carr writes, “Like any good columnist, I made phone calls until I found someone — anyone — to agree with me and came up with Paul Saffo, the esteemed […]

NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg News, Charlotte Observer among Loeb winners

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Miami Herald and the Charlotte Observer were among the winners of the annual Gerald Loeb Awards, considered the Pulitzer Prizes of business journalism. In the large newspaper category, The Times won for a series called “The Reckoning,” which explored the causes behind the […]

NYT tech columnist Pogue violates ethics policy

The NYTPicker.com site notes that New York Times tech gadget columnist David Pogue violated the paper’s ethics statement when he spoke last week at the Consumer Electronics Association’s “CEO Summit” last week. NYTPicker reports, “The NYTPicker asked Mathis if the NYT planned to ask Pogue to return the CEA speaking fee and travel reimbursement. “‘We […]

NYT launches small business blog

The New York Times has launched a blog about small business and entrepreneurship called “You’re the Boss.” Small business editor Loren Feldman writes, “One of the guiding thoughts behind this blog is that unlike doctors and lawyers and a lot of other professionals, business owners rarely get any training. Nor do they have a lot […]

Portfolio stories ending up elsewhere

Keith Kelly of the New York Post writes Friday about how stories slated to run in the now-closed Conde Nast Portfolio are appearing in other publications. Kelly writes, “An article about the sons of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff by David Margolick was originally set to run in Joanne Lipman‘s Portfolio, but when S.I. Newhouse […]

The most important financial journalist of the generation

Dean Starkman profiles New York Times business writer Gretchen Morgenson in the latest edition of The Nation in an article that calls her the most important financial journalist today. Starkman writes, “At 53, Morgenson is at the height of her career, read and feared in the corridors of power running from Wall Street to Washington. […]

Byline error in NYT biz section

Dan Frommer of The Business Insider writes Thursday about the byline error in today’s New York Times. Frommer writes, “Joe Nocera is the business columnist that Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs called a ‘slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.’ David Pogue is the Apple-loving technology reviewer who says the new iPhone ‘vaults […]

Assessing Forbes' future

David Carr writes for Monday’s New York Times about the struggles that Forbes magazine faces in the current economic recession. Carr writes, “In a conference room in their Manhattan headquarters, Tim and Steve Forbes conceded that the last year had been a difficult one for a magazine marketed as the ‘Capitalist Tool.’ But, sitting side […]

Verbs and the stock market

New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia responded to a reader’s question about how the paper decided how to characterize moves in the stock market. Ingrassia writes, “But there is no easy definition when it comes to crash, either. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average, uh, went down 22.6 percent on Oct. 19, 1987 — […]