Arango leaves Fortune for Times, which strikes out with WSJ reporters
John Koblin of The New York Observer reports Wednesday that Fortune reporter Tim Arango is leaving the magazine for a job on the New York Times business desk to cover media companies. However, The Times was unsuccessful in luring reporters from The Wall Street Journal. Koblin wrote, “His arrival will come as a relief to […]
"Green" business coverage rises dramatically in 2007
The number of ‘green’ business stories published in the nation’s 10 largest newspapers this year has already doubled last year’s total, according to a study released by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. A significant shift is underway in coverage priorities, the study found. Examination of content determined that 81 of 154 business […]
Why does Times give space to Blodget?
New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt writes about why the business section of the newspaper has printed articles from former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget, who has been barred from working in the investment industry again. Hoyt wrote, “I think there are two questions here. One is whether The Times properly identifies Blodget when […]
CEO: Media contributes to housing woes
Floyd Norris of the New York Times writes Friday that Toll Brothers CEO Robert Toll blamed the media on a conference call for the poor sales for his homebuilding company. Norris wrote, “‘Perhaps as the presidential campaign heats up and moves to the front page, negative articles about housing will move off the front page,’ he […]
What the mistakes in the NYTimes' Bartiromo story mean
Felix Salmon of Conde Nast Portfolio wonders how mistakes could have been made in a Monday story in the New York Times business section about CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo that included getting wrong the names of a Citigroup executive and an investment fund. Bercovici wrote, “This is more than a storm in a media teacup: it speaks […]
Bank stories all lame
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs isn’t too happy with the recent media coverage of the woes at banks. Fuchs wrote, “Writing and reporting on Wall Street firms in these troubled recent days have generally fallen into one of several categories — all lame. But understanding the categories, by looking at those we have seen and […]
Round 57 in Hacks vs. Flacks
Andrew Adam Newman of The New York Times takes a closer look at the battle between public relations professionals and business journalists that has gone another round after Wired executive editor Chris Anderson banned certain PR e-mails from his account last week. Newman wrote, “There has long been a ‘love-hate relationship’ between the two professions, […]
How the biz media helped oust Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal
The Deal executive editor Yvette Kantrow writes Friday about how a story leaked last week to the New York Times about Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O’Neal helped unleash coverage that pushed the executive out the door. Kantrow wrote, “The leak is an object lesson in how the media can be used to push out a […]
NYTimes.com expands tech coverage
The New York Times is expanding its online tech coverage by adding additional content providers such as IDGMedia Brands, Blogrunner.com and PaidContent.org, according to a release on Thursday. The release stated, “The technology section fully integrates Blogrunner with a module on the section front that features frequently updated links to other sources reporting on technology, both […]
Worried about the quality of business journalism?
Renita Jablonski, a producer for American Public Media’s “Marketplace”; Indira Kannan, U.S. bureau chief for CNBC-TV18 and CNN-IBN in India; Richard Perez-Pena, a reporter with The New York Times; and David Barroux, U.S. bureau chief for French business daily Les Echos, spoke recently at the University of Pennsylvania about how business journalism is changing. Here […]
