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 […]
Getting inside Wall Street to cover Wall Street
Marshall Watkins of The Stanford Daily spoke with financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times and CNBC after he spoke at a campus event on Saturday. Here is an excerpt: TSD: As a financial journalist, how have you found the challenge of reporting on a close-knit community like Wall Street? At this […]
NYTimes names deputy biz editor, international biz editor
New York Times business editor Dean Murphy sent out the following email announcement on Thursday: For the past seven years, Kevin McKenna has done a stellar job reinventing, elevating and integrating our online report – so successfully, that in essence he has made his current web job an anachronism of sorts. Kevin will become […]
What’s the deal behind Dealbook?
Alex Pareene writes for The Baffler about The New York Times‘ Dealbook, which is run by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Pareene argues is soft on Wall Street. Pareene writes, “Until a decade or so ago, the Times had flattered and entertained its audience with generous coverage of culture, arts, food, real estate, and travel (rich […]
Barro leaving Business Insider for NY Times
Josh Barro, the outgoing Business Insider political editor, is joining The New York Times to take part in David Leonhardt‘s new policy venture, reports Dylan Byers of Politico. Byers writes, “Barro, a former Bloomberg View blogger who writes frequently about economic policy, joined Business Insider in May 2013 and has since become a fixture on […]
NYTimes international biz editor to join new venture
David Leonhardt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning economics reporter for the New York Times leading a new venture for the paper, sent out the following staff announcements for that operation: Late last year, Jill announced that we would be creating a new politics-and-policy website with a focus on data, and I want to update everyone on our progress. Our […]
Econ reporter Rampell leaving NY Times for WaPo
New York Times business editor Dean Murphy sent out the following staff announcement on Tuesday afternoon: We are sorry to announce that Catherine Rampell is leaving The Times to become an op-ed columnist at the Washington Post. Catherine has been a member of our economics team since 2008, when she joined us from The Chronicle […]
NY Times names deputy tech editor
New York Times business editor Dean Murphy sent out the following announcement to the staff on Tuesday: As The Times moves to become an even more authoritative force in consumer technology, we have terrific news: Molly Wood, recently of the CBS-owned tech website CNET, is coming to Business Day as a deputy technology editor […]
Manjoo: Tough to leave Wall Street Journal
Farhad Manjoo, who has been hired to review tech gadgets for The New York Times, writes about leaving The Wall Street Journal after only four months. Manjoo writes: But I was not actually very disappointed, because my new job at the WSJ and the colleagues I’d found myself working with were pretty much perfect. Honestly, […]
WSJ’s Manjoo to become NYT’s tech reviewer
Farhad Manjoo, who joined The Wall Street Journal four months ago, is joining the New York Times business news section to become its new tech gadget columnist. Peter Kafka of Re/code writes, “Manjoo joined the Journal last September, after a five-year stint at Slate. Pogue left the Times in November for Yahoo, where he launched […]
