Murdoch: CNBC antagonistic toward business; Fox will be friendly

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, speaking Thursday at the Media Summitt in New York hosted by BusinessWeek, accused business news cable channel CNBC of being unfriendly toward business and added that his Fox Business News network, slated to appear later this year, would take an opposite tack. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, writing for Multichannel News, wrote, “‘We […]

NYTimes reporter won't testify in drug company case

The New York Sun is reporting that New York Times reporter Alex Berenson will not testify in a case involving internal drug company documents he obtained and wrote stories about. Joseph Goldstein wrote, “The judge, Jack Weinstein of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, had asked the reporter, Alex Berenson, to testify voluntarily about how he […]

'Reliable Sources' guests discuss Bartiromo

Howard Kurtz, the media reporter for the Washington Post and host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” had a panel of journalists discuss the ethics of CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo accepting a plane ride on the Citigroup corporate jet on Sunday. Here are some of the comments: EMILY ROONEY, HOST, “BEAT THE PRESS,” WGBH: I don’t know. […]

Bloomberg M&A reporter leaves for WSJ

Nikki Finke is reporting on her blog that Bloomberg News mergers & acquisitions reporter Dana Cimilluca is leaving the wire service to go to The Wall Street Journal. Finke wrote, “His quitting Friday caused quite the Bloomberg newsroom stir because he was the only reporter on his team — or for that matter in all […]

Biz media have bigger ethical issues than being cozy with sources

TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow wants to know why the media has gotten so up in arms about CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo taking a trip on the Citigroup jet when there appear to be bigger ethical issues surrounding business journalism. Kantrow wrote, “Show us a big-deal TV journalist who hasn’t sat on or moderated a […]

A cross between "Squawk Box" and "SNL"

New York Times reporter Michael de la Merced examined the phenomenon of three-month-old WallStrip, the new web site that posts a video of a stock each day, in Friday’s paper. De la Merced wrote, “Wallstrip is more like Rocketboom, the daily Web newscast with a similarly cheeky bent. Wallstrip’s producers, Adam Elend and Jeff Marks, […]

WSJ ad campaign targets women, young readers

Katherine Seelye of the New York Times takes a look at the Wall Street Journal’s new ad campaign in Thursday’s paper. One of the ads features singer Sheryl Crow Seelye wrote, “As it happens, Ms. Crow did grow up reading The Journal, inspired by her grandmother, who was a newspaper editor and favored The Journal […]

Former analyst Blodget slams Cramer show

Former tech stocks analyst Henry Blodget, writing on Slate, takes aim at Jim Cramer and his CNBC show “Mad Money” for dispensing bad investment advice. Blodget wrote, “The more I thought about Cramer, the more I realized that pointing out that he gives terrible investment advice would be like pointing out that the sun rises. […]

Vocal minority wants stock listings back

Maria Aspan in the New York Times writes that the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, after cutting their stock listings, brought back some of those statistics after a vocal minority complained. Aspan wrote, “‘We always had in mind that we would see what the reaction was,’ said Sandra Sugawara, The Post’s assistant managing […]

CNBC's coverage is cozy to business

David Carr writes in the Monday New York Times that what Maria Bartiromo did by flying in the Citigroup corporate jet is typical for a media outlet that has cozied up to its beat. Carr wrote, “CNBC has positioned itself as an adjunct to business, the glowing friend in the corner with the sound off […]