Taking aim at the NYTimes
A National Public Radio segment Tuesday morning assesses whether The Wall Street Journal can take away readers from the New York Times. It interviews Journal managing editor Robert Thomson and Times executive editor Bill Keller. The segment states, “Keller says the Journal has yet to put its new identity in focus, citing speculation after Murdoch […]
Proliferation of media leads to scaring consumers about economy
David Carr of the New York Times writes for Monday’s paper about how the increase in media reporting about the economy’s problems is causing people to become more scared. Carr writes, “Every modern recession includes a media séance about how horrible things are and how much worse they will be, but there have never been […]
Biz media being too kind to automakers and bailout
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs wants to know why the media — with the exception of The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and New York Post — have been so easy on the struggling automakers. Fuchs writes, “You can’t take a hometown news outlet’s spin too seriously in a situation like this. The very […]
Biz media helped create Black Friday
David Carr of the New York Times writes Monday about how the business media helped create the country’s fascination with Black Friday, the first Christmas shopping day after Thanksgiving. Carr writes, “Except the coverage is not so much trite as deeply cynical, an attempt to indoctrinate consumers into believing that they are what they buy […]
Opinions about the economic crisis in news coverage
New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt writes Sunday about how the paper’s reporters covering the current economic turmoil have not been shy about expressing their opinion in their coverage. One that drew his attention was reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin calling for GM’s management to be fired. Hoyt writes, “Keller said the column’s analysis was fine, […]
NYT employment columnist let go
Marci Alboher, the New York Times “Shifting Careers” column as a freelancer for the past 18 months, has lost that job, according to a report from Peter Kafka at All Things Digital. Kafka writes, “The Times (NYT) had a round of layoffs/buyouts earlier in the year, but last month Executive Editor Bill Keller told his […]
Giving away money to increase awareness
Stuart Elliott of the New York Times writes Tuesday about companies that have promotional giveaways where they give away money, and focuses on CNBC‘s $1 million stock portfolio challenge. Elliott writes, “A cash giveaway can make sense ‘when it connects in the consumer’s mind to the brand’s purpose,’ he added, citing a contest sponsored by […]
WSJ invading NYT ad turf
Sarah Rabil of Bloomberg News writes Friday about how The Wall Street Journal has been enticing advertisers that have traditionally only run ads in The New York Times in an increasing battle between the two papers. Rabil writes, “The Times is also expanding financial news coverage, executive editor Bill Keller said. While Keller says the newspapers […]
Access to sources and biz reporters
Dean Starkman of Columbia Journalism Review writes about the issue of access to sources in business journalism, a problem he says is shown in the New York Times story by Geraldine Fabrikant about ousted Citigroup executive Sallie Krawcheck. The story contained references to people close to Krawcheck and her thinking, without every quoting her. Starkman […]
Convincing Krugman to write about economics for the NYT
Howell Raines writes in the latest issue of Conde Nast Portfolio about New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman, who won a Nobel Prize earlier this year and whom Raines hired back in 1999. Raines writes, “Around 1999, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. told me he wanted to hire the first full-time economics […]
