NYTimes’ Sorkin: I am not a Wall Street Insider
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan writes about when journalists are considering “insiders,” including Andrew Ross Sorkin. Sullivan writes, “The author Dean Starkman draws a distinction between two kinds of journalism: access and accountability. In his new book about the failure of the financial press before the 2008 meltdown, ‘The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark,’ […]
NYTimes biz desk hires Searcey from WSJ
New York Times business editor Dean Murphy sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: We’re pleased to announce that Dionne Searcey of the Wall Street Journal is coming to BizDay to write about the economy. For the past four years, Dionne has been an investigative reporter for the Journal’s Page One enterprise team, and before […]
WSJ hires Pulitzer winner McGinty for numbers column
Wall Street Journal U.S. editor Jennifer Forsyth sent out the following staff hire announcement on Friday: We’re thrilled to announce the hiring of Jo Craven McGinty as a columnist to tell the tale behind numbers in the news. She will be a successor to Carl Bialik, who wrote the Numbers Guy column for eight years. […]
NYTimes names new corporate media reporter
New York Times media editor Peter Lattman sent out the following staff announcement on Friday: I am pleased to announce that Jonathan Mahler will join The New York Times as a media reporter. He will cover the industry’s biggest companies and the moguls who run them, along with the seismic changes transforming their businesses. […]
WSJ named most influential biz news outlet; Sorkin named most influential biz journalist
The Wall Street Journal remains the most-influential financial news organization in the country, according to survey results released Thursday. The Journal was nominated as the most influential financial news organization by 83 percent of the nearly 500 financial journalists who responded to the survey in November and December. Bloomberg News was second with 58 percent,m […]
NYTimes CEO takes swipe at Bloomberg
Mark Thompson, the CEO of the New York Times Co., poked rival Bloomberg News on Wednesday at a media conference when asked about the latter’s decision not to publish stories critical of people connected to the Chinese government for fear of hurting its business. Matthew Garrahan of the Financial Times writes, “Mr Thompson was speaking […]
NYTimes tech reporter Miller joining Upshot
David Leonhardt, who is operating the pending New York Times‘ web-only operation The Upshot, sent out the following staff announcement: In November 2010, when Google seemed to be flying high, Claire Cain Miller wrote a front-page story in The Times about the company’s behind-the-scenes struggle to retain talent. She described its engineers as “chafing under the […]
Showtime orders show from biz journalist Sorkin
Showtime has ordered “Billions” from New York Times and CNBC business journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin and writer-director-producers Brian Koppelman and David Levien. Whitney Friedlander of Variety writes, “Set in the world of wealth, this fictional drama focuses on the collision and, at times, collusion between an aggressive U.S. attorney in New York and some of […]
NY Times publishing reporter leaves for Midwest job
Julie Bosman, who’s covered publishing for The New York Times for the past four years, is leaving the beat to become the paper’s Midwest correspondent, reports Joe Pompeo of Capital New York. Pompeo writes, “It’s the latest move on the Times media desk, which has been playing musical chairs for the past several months: In the editor’s […]
The value of the Forbes brand
David Carr of The New York Times writes about the Forbes brand as it prepares to sell itself. Carr writes, “The entire category of business magazines has been punished, but Businessweek and Fortune have the benefit of being part of larger, more diversified enterprises, while Forbes has had to go it alone. The magazine doubled […]
