Public failed to respond to warnings from biz media about crisis
The public ignored warnings from the business media about an impending financial crisis, New York Times senior business writer Diana Henriques told a crowd at George Washington University, her alma mater. Evelyne Freiermuth of the Hachet writes, “One of the factors Henriques cited as possible reasons for the lack of public perception of the worsening […]
Companies resorting to blogs to break news ahead of media
Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times writes about how some companies are breaking news about themselves, such as layoffs, on corporate blogs instead of allowing the business media to control the message. Miller writes, “Unlike more traditional firms, many of today’s Web companies were built on the mission of creating transparency for users. […]
Is American Banker safe with picking a banker of the year?
Stephanie Clifford of the New York Times writes for Monday’s paper about how risky it is for American Banker to pick a Banker of the Year in a year when so many banks have struggled. It picked Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis. Clifford writes, “Richard Melville of American Banker said editors there felt they […]
NYTimes biz desk expands while other departments are cut
John Koblin of the New York Observer looks Wednesday at the New York Times business desk, which has been expanding while other news departments at the paper are being downsized. Koblin writes, “Over the past six months, the paper has hired more than a dozen journalists to work for it, most recently plucking the New […]
Court backs NYTimes biz reporter
A New Jersey state appeals court ruled that New York Times business journalist Timothy O’Brien does not have to reveal the identity of three sources who told him that Donald Trump’s true worth lies in the millions of dollars, rather than in the billions as the mogul maintains, writes Troy Graham of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Graham […]
Breakingviews column to run in Fortune and online at CNNMoney.com
Robert MacMillan of Reuters reports that Breakingviews.com has struck a deal for its business news and analysis column to appear in Fortune. The column was dropped earlier this year by The Wall Street Journal. It has since been picked up by the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. MacMillan writes, “Breakingviews plans to […]
NYTimes.com sees strong growth after launching new online coverage
Janet Robinson, the CEO of the New York Times Co., talked to analysts and investors on Thursday during a conference call to discuss the company’s third-quarter earnings and she gave a glimpse into the results from the launching of new business coverage areas on its Web site. Last month, the paper announced a major expansion […]
Henriques: NYT did stellar job in warning about financial crisis
Diana Henriques, a senior financial writer at the New York Times, spoke at Southern Methodist University on Tuesday about how the business media covered the financial crisis and noted that her paper did a fine job of sounding the alarm. Chris Dell, a reporter at the SMU Daily Mustang, wrote, “So, who was to blame […]
Cliche watch, business edition
Philip Corbett, the deputy news editor at the New York Times who is also in charge of the paper’s style manual, takes a look at the cliches that have crept into the paper’s business coverage. Corbett writes, “In one stretch of business coverage last month, we used the phrase ‘double down’ three times in four […]
NYT beats FT and WSJ in photographing the financial crisis
Elinore Longobardi of the Columbia Journalism Review has an excellent analysis of the photography being used to illustrate the current financial turmoil, and says that the New York Times has done the best job. Longobardi writes, “The Times has long had a strong tradition of photojournalism, and an estimable staff of in-house photographers. That experience […]
