The biz news competition in D.C.
Michael Calderone of The New York Observer takes a look Wednesday at what a beefed up Wall Street Journal covering more stories in Washington might mean for The New York Times and Washington Post. Calderone wrote, “While The Journal remains strong on beats where government and business overlap—lobbying, for instance, or the Federal Reserve—the paper […]
Inaugural Barlett and Steele award winners named
Reporters at The New York Times and The Sun in Baltimore have been awarded the inaugural Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced late Monday. “A Toxic Pipeline” by Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The Times received the first-place $5,000 award. Their stories […]
Expanding the WSJ brand through conferences
Richard Perez-Pena writes Monday how The Wall Street Journal is expanding its brand name recognition by rolling out a series of conferences. Perez-Pena wrote, “Today, it will announce a conference next March on business and the environment called ‘Eco:nomics.’ “‘This particular topic is, no pun intended, very hot right now,’ said L. Gordon Crovitz, The […]
The man who changed business journalism
Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times notes in her weekend column that Warren Buffett called recently deceased Forbes editor Jim Michaels the best business editor he had ever seen, and she notes some of his best edits/comments about stories written for the magazine. They included: “If I can’t stay awake editing this, how can […]
A shocker: CEO gives bad information to business reporter
David Pogue of The New York Times writes Thursday on his Circuits blog about how the CEO of Cubic Telecom gave him long-distance phone rates for a story that turned out to be much lower than what the company posted on its Web site that it would charge for a new phone service. Pogue wrote, […]
The business media and Henry Blodget
David Weidner of Marketwatch wants to know why so many business news outlets are giving disgraced former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget a chance to espouse his beliefs again. Weidner notes that Blodget wrote in a New York Times special section on Wednesday. Weidner wrote, “Andrew Ross Sorkin, who edited the special section, said Times […]
Blogging's influence on business journalism
TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow assesses the influence that bloggers have had on financial journalism because they report rumors given to them by their readers before reporting has had a chance to verify the facts. Kantrow wrote, “Witness reports last week about Credit Suisse Group’s plans to lay off staff in its mortgage-backed securities unit. […]
Why is Ben Stein writing about the economy in the NYT biz section?
Felix Salmon of Conde Nast Portfolio wants to know why economist/actor Ben Stein is writing a column in the Sunday New York Times that is full of errors. Salmon noted that Stein got facts about former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget wrong in his column on Sunday, and that he misquoted himself. Salmon wrote, “Stein, […]
NYTimes biz section launches blog on TV industry
The New York Times business section launched a new blog called “TV Decoderâ€? (http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com) covering the television industry. TV Decoder is a guide to what’s on, who’s watching and why it matters — it covers the day’s on-screen and behind-the-scenes developments, with insights into Nielsen ratings and the machinations of the TV industry. Brian Stelter, […]
NYT vs. WSJ on MBAs: You decide
Slate.com media critic Jack Shafer says that a New York Times story that argues that the value of an MBA is not that important in the business world is refuted by a Wall Street Journal story one day later that argues that an MBA is becoming increasingly valuable. Shafer wrote, “A leavening of weasel-words—many, most, […]
