Examining the NYTimes role in the economic turmoil

Clark Hoyt, the public editor of the New York Times, writes Sunday in response to reader’s complaints that the paper’s negative coverage about the economy has contributed to the current crisis. Hoyt writes, “When the economy did go off the rails, The Times tried to keep the damage in perspective. For example, the government reported […]

Covering business execs in tabloid fashion

Brian Stelter of the New York Times writes Friday how the tabloid press and more traditional media are now looking to cover the behind-the-scenes lives of corporate executives, their parties and their use of private jets. Stelter writes, “Tabloids aren’t the only ones wagging their fingers. In recent months, network news divisions have relied more […]

NYT crossword tells readers to go to WSJ for business news

Where does one go to get news about the New York Stock Exchange? According to Tuesday’s New York Times crossword puzzle, it’s The Wall Street Journal, an answer that Page Six of the New York Post took glee in. Page Six writes, “The 50-across clue, ‘The Big Board for short’ (answer: NYSE), led to 58-across […]

Why CNBC and Maria Bartiromo are better than NYT's Floyd Norris

Evan Cooper, deputy editor of Investment News, argues that the attraction for many who watch CNBC and other business news on television is that it’s more real than reality. Cooper writes, “There’s a drugged quality to the feeling we get as we stare at the moving pictures and are drawn into the TV world of […]

Bob Cole, former NYT biz reporter, dies at 83

Robert Cole, a former New York Times business journalist known for his coverage of corporate mergers and acquisitions in the 1970s and 1980s, died last month, according to a Times obituary. He last wrote for the Times in July 1991, when he covered the stock market. The story states, “Mr. Cole was known for chasing […]

NYTimes.com launches environment and energy section

NYTimes.com launched a new energy and environment section, the latest in a series of The Times’s online business news expansion efforts. The section will include online-only material, video and interactive features as well as articles from the print edition. Among the journalists whose work will be featured are Tom Zeller Jr., editor of the Green […]

Fortune writer resigns amid plagiarism charge, apology

The next issue of Fortune magazine will have an apology for an article in the Feb. 2 issue of the magazine that allegedly plagiarized a 2004 New York Times magazine article, and the reporter, Barney Gimbel, has resigned from the business bi-weekly, according to the New York Observer. John Koblin writes, “When the author of the […]

WSJ: NYTimes got it wrong about our circulation strategy

The Wall Street Journal issued a release that takes issue with the characterization of its circulation strategy in a story Monday in the New York Times. The release states, “The New York Times wrongly reported that the Journal’s circulation growth is due to heavy discounting and that the use of this tactic had increased since […]

Madoff photos in demand

Stephanie Clifford of the New York Times writes Monday about how decades-old photos of Bernie Madoff are now in demand that he has been charged with running a financial scam. Clifford writes, “Mr. Saunders had largely forgotten about the session when a photo editor from The Wall Street Journal called him in mid-December, asking for […]

CNBC promotes the Santelli rant

Brian Stelter of the New York Times writes Monday about how CNBC is doing everything it can to promote reporter Rick Santelli‘s on-air rant on Thursday about the economic bailout package. Stelter writes, “A few hundred thousand viewers were watching the exchange broadcast, and it was immediately magnified by the Internet. Within minutes, CNBC posted […]