Former NYT reporter prepping entertainment biz news site
Jon Friedman of Marketwatch writes that former New York Times entertainment business writer Sharon Waxman is working to launch a Web site that will cover the industry. Friedman writes, “Waxman is an author and a seasoned journalist as well as a ferocious competitor. I profiled her in a Media Web column in 2005 and came […]
From Twitter post to blog item to NYT biz section article
New York Times business columnist David Carr writes Monday about how staff writer Brian Stelter turned a Twitter post last week into a blog item and then an article in the paper’s business section. Carr writes, “If the future of our business is online, then why set up a firewall, delaying the best content to […]
NYT biz columnist Nocera takes aim at former NYT boss Raines
New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera thinks that the criticism former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines levied in his latest column in Conde Nast Portfolio at business journalists for letting the oil companies off easy is malarkey. Nocera writes, “It’s about how all of us in business journalism are being sandbagged by those awful people […]
Icahn hires Reuters hedge fund reporter to write blog
Andrew Ross Sorkin‘s Dealbook blog for The New York Times reports Tuesday that activist investor Carl Icahn has hired a Reuters reporter to write his new blog. Michael de la Merced writes, “The activist shareholder has hired Dane Hamilton, a hedge fund reporter at Thomson Reuters, to work on his Web site, The Icahn Report, according […]
Lyons: I wouldn't have gone off the record with Jobs
Newsweek tech writer Dan Lyons, famous for his “Fake Steve Jobs” blog, says he would not have agreed to talk off the record to the Apple CEO like New York Times columnist Joe Nocera did this past week. Jobs called to downplay questions about his health, which Nocera was writing about. Lyons writes, “I’m always […]
Apple's Jobs calls NYT biz columnist — for an off-the-record talk
Joe Nocera, a business columnist for the New York Times, writes Saturday about Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the recurring questions about his health and why the company should disclose more detail about it. Nocera also reports that Jobs himself called during the course of his reporting, but would only talk off the record. It’s […]
Writing personal finance as a critique
Ron Lieber joined the New York Times in May as its personal finance columnist after being the managing editor of FiLife, a personal finance Web site that is a joint venture between Dow Jones & Co. and IAC/Interactive. Before that, Lieber wrote the “Green Thumb,” a managing-your-money column for The Wall Street Journal that covered […]
The tech web site that has become a full-time job
Brian Stelter of the New York Times writes Monday about Arnold Kim, a physician who has quit practicing medicine to run his MacRumors.com web site about Apple full time. Stelter writes, “Dr. Kim epitomizes the home-grown publishers whose wealth has been enabled by the Internet. Although few of the millions of blogs ever make their […]
New York Times about to expand business coverage online
Nat Ives of Advertising Age, in a wide-ranging story about the New York Times, reports that the paper is about to launch a huge increase in its online business and economics news and commentary, primarily to compete with The Wall Street Journal. Ives writes, “As it happenes, the Times is about to dramatically expand its […]
Covering lenders in crisis
Clark Hoyt, the public editor of the New York Times, takes a look Sunday at the paper’s coverage of struggling lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the government takeover of another lender, IndyMac. Hoyt believes that the paper was too restrained in its coverage of IndyMac’s problems. Hoyt writes, “The Times buried […]
