New York Times' Norris to receive SABEW achievement award
Floyd Norris, The New York Times’s chief financial correspondent, will receive the 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers at its 45th annual conference in Baltimore on April 28. He covers the world of finance and economics in print with his weekly column and online with his blog “Notions […]
Taking a jab at M&A coverage
TheDeal executive editor Yvette Kantrow writes Friday about the recent mergers and acquisitions coverage in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and notes that a Times column about M&A by Andrew Ross Sorkin. Kantrow wrote, “‘The problem is that most CEOs don’t have the guts to make acquisitions when everyone is running scared,’ […]
Tracking job changes by business journalists
Cate Doty of The New York Times writes Monday about Gorkana, the e-mail newsletter that tracks job changes by business journalists. Doty wrote, “The newsletter — which reaches the in-boxes of about 5,000 journalists and will come out five times a week starting March 1 — is the American counterpart to a British version, which […]
Ousted Portfolio editor returns to New York Times
Jim Impoco, the former deputy editor of Conde Nast Portfolio who was fired last year, is going back to the New York Times, where he had been the editor of the Sunday business section, writes John Koblin of the New York Observer. He will work on the Times Sunday magazine. Koblin wrote, “Magazine editor Gerald […]
Hewlett-Packard settles case of spying on business journalists
Hewlett-Packard n Thursday announced a settlement with Business Week and New York Times reporters on whom the computer maker spied during a hunt for a boardroom leak, according to an AFP story. AFP wrote, “‘The matter has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties, and we’re pleased to put this matter behind us,’ […]
The WSJ covers more politics
David Carr of The New York Times writes for Monday’s paper that The Wall Street Journal is spending an increasing amount of news hole in covering politics, not business. Carr wrote, “The Wall Street Journal, which has historically had a thing for guys in pinstripes rendered in stippled drawings, is taking its makeover very seriously. […]
If only we were all this lucky
Katherine Eban of Conde Nast Portfolio writes that New York Times business reporter Alex Berenson had a scoop literally land in his e-mail inbox when an attorney working for Eli Lilly & Co. sent him confidential information about a settlement instead of to another attorney — who happens to have the same last name. Eban […]
Murdoch's gamble could backfire
Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York Business writes that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch‘s plan to make The Wall Street Journal more mainstream to compete against The New York Times could backfire. Flamm wrote, “Major news stories dominate the front page. The long, offbeat or investigative stories–formerly a page-one centerpiece–have grown scarce. Last week, Journal […]
Biz media obsessed with rogue trader's college education
Yvette Kantrow of TheDeal.com wants to know why the business media is obsessed with where the Société Générale trader who lost more than $7 billion went to college. Kantrow wrote, “You can hardly pick up a newspaper account of Kerviel’s shenanigans at Société Générale without reading about how Kerviel attended lowly University of Lyon–an ‘average […]
Objectivity in covering the auto industry
James G. Cobb, an assistant business and finance editor at the New York Times who oversees the paper’s auto coverage, responded to a reader’s question about how the paper maintains its objectivity in covering one of its largest advertisers. Cobb wrote, “Indeed, I’m sure we give our counterparts on the ad side some headaches. I’ve […]
