Lieber named new "Your Money" columnist at New York Times
Ron Lieber has been named the new “Your Money” columnist at the New York Times, according to a memo from business editor Larry Ingrassia posted on the Romenesko site. Lieber has been the managing editor of the new personal finance Web site Filife. He replaces Damon Darlin. Ingrassia wrote, “We have now found someone who […]
Mercury News biz columnist leaves for New York Times
San Jose Mercury News business columnist Vindu Goel is leaving the paper to become deputy technology editor at the New York Times, according to a memo Wednesday from Times business editor Larry Ingrassia. In the memo, Ingrassia said, “In this newly created position, Vindu will work with tech editor Damon Darlin and deputy tech editor […]
Why Apple fans hate tech reporters
Farhad Manjoo writes on Slate why fans of Apple products hate tech reporters, even those like Walter Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal and David Pogue of The New York Times who have written generally positive reviews of Apple gadgets. Manjoo writes, “Tech columnists Mossberg and Pogue don’t claim to be objective. They’re critics, and […]
Wall Street turned on its head
TheDeal executive editor Yvette Kantrow writes Friday that the recent coverage of Eliot Spitzer and Blackstone Group head Stephen Schwarzman has turned business news in The New York Times upside down. Kantrow wrote, “Nowhere was the confusion more apparent than in The New York Times, which both broke the Spitzer news and was handed the […]
Why top real estate stories appear elsewhere
Bill Goss, the real estate editor for the New York Times, has been taking questions from readers this week, and one wanted to know why all of the good real estate stories appear in other sections of the paper, like Business and the A front. Goss replied, “There’s a simple reason that you find news […]
Round one goes to New York Times
Douglas Bell of Toronto Life looks at the newspaper war between The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times in the aftermath of News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch‘s purchase of the Journal and gives round one to the Times in a knockout. Bell wrote, “For the moment, they’re no doubt popping victory champagne corks […]
Mint editor: NYT deputy Sunday biz editor needs to check facts first
Raju Narisetti, the former Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor who now runs the Mint business newspaper in India, reacted angrily to allegations from New York Times deputy Sunday business editor Patricia Kranz that his paper has been reprinting Times’ articles without permission. In a post on the Romenesko site, Narisetti wrote, “I wish The […]
WSJ partner in India says it has deal to publish NYT stories
Nikhil Pahwa writes on the Content Sutra site that the Hindustan Times’ business newspaper Mint, a Wall Street Journal partner paper in India, has an agreement to publish New York Times stories, contrary to claims from a Times deputy Sunday business editor. Pahwa wrote, “Mint says that WSJ is an exclusive partner, while NYT is […]
WSJ partner in India lifting content from New York Times
Patricia Kranz, deputy Sunday business editor at the New York Times, has written a memo posted on the Romenesko site in which she claims that a Wall Street Journal partner in India has been running Times’ content on its web site without attribution. Kranz wrote, “Upon further examination, it appears that the site has published […]
Bloomberg News story plagiarized by New York Times?
Slate.com media critic Jack Shafer writes about the similarities in wording and entire sentences between a Bloomberg News story and one that was published in the New York Times with the byline of staff writer Alexei Barrionuevo. Shafer wrote, “A second case of plagiarism by Barrionuevo has come to my attention. On July 15, 2005, Bloomberg […]
