NYTimes creates media news department
John Koblin of the New York Observer reports that the media reporters on the New York Times business desk are joining its media reporters on the cultural desk to create a mini-department. Business editor Larry Ingrassia and culture editor Sam Sifton wrote in a memo, “Convergence is the biggest story in media and entertainment today. Hollywood studios […]
Now they know how the business editors at other papers feel
Richard Perez-Pena of the New York Times reports that the Times, unlike other metro dailies, plans to fold its sports and metro sections into other sections of the paper, but keep its standalone business section. Perez-Pena writes, “The Metro report will become part of the newspaper’s A section, which also contains the International and National reports, […]
Affluent readers are WSJ. target
Richard Perez-Pena of the New York Times takes a look Thursday at the launch of WSJ., the Wall Street Journal‘s luxury magazine. Perez-Pena writes, “The Journal starts with a major advantage in that it can offer advertisers the wealthiest readership of any American newspaper. An even more affluent subgroup of subscribers will receive the magazine, […]
Salmon agrees with Nocera: WSJ is diluted
Felix Salmon of Conde Nast Portfolio writes Monday that he agrees with New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera about the changes at The Wall Street Journal hurting its longstanding excellent business news coverage. Salmon writes, “Murdoch is betting that the WSJ’s core business audience has nowhere else to turn, and Nocera himself says that […]
NYTimes biz section needs to run column from Democrat
Felix Salmon of Conde Nast Portfolio writes Sunday that the column by Ben Stein in the New York Times shows that the paper’s business section needs a counter column written by a Democrat. Salmon writes, “Putting the substance of the column aside for one minute, I’ll concede at the outset that this is an explicitly […]
NY Times biz columnist Nocera misses the old Wall Street Journal
Joe Nocera, a business columnist for the New York Times, writes about how he misses the pre-Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal. Nocera writes, “Mr. Murdoch believes that the country is yearning for a national conservative daily, so that is where he is taking The Wall Street Journal. He is also an old-fashioned news hound, so […]
Trump wins legal battle against NYTimes biz journalist
Troy Graham of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports thats real estate developer Donald Trump has won a battle to require New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. to be deposed in his defamation lawsuit against Times business journalist Timothy O’Brien for a book he wrote about Trump. Graham writes, “In November, Trump’s lawyers sent a subpoena […]
Biz media want court to unseal antitrust case
Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal reports Thursday that a number of media, including the Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, have asked a judge to unseal an antitrust case between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel Corp. Kendall writes, “Also joining the request were the New York Times, the Washington Post, Situation Publishing Ltd., the […]
NYTimes.com slowing rolling out more online business news content
David Kaplan of PaidContent.org interviews NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller about how the paper is increasing its online offerings in business and technology news, which is resulting in some additional hiring. Kaplan writes, “No defensive crouch: Joining with LinkedIn and starting the new sections are two examples of how the site plans to battle back […]
Where are the numbers backing up SUV story?
Felix Salmon of Conde Nast Portfolio writes Wednesday that the article about SUV sales on the front page of Wednesday’s New York Times is devoid of meaningful statistics backing up its claims. Salmon writes, “It’s hardly news, of course, that few people are very interested in buying SUVs right now. But Nick Bunkley’s article concentrates […]
