Former NYT banking reporter lands job at Treasury
Eric Dash, a former banking reporter at The New York Times before taking the paper’s buyout offer in 2011, has landed a job at the U.S. Treasury Department, reports Kat Stoeffel of the New York Observer. Stoeffel writes, “A tipster forwarded us this message, posted to his Facebook account: ‘Some of you have asked me […]
Stewart to receive Kilgore award
James Stewart, the Pulitzer Prize winning business columnist for the New York Times, will be presented with DePauw University’s Bernard C. Kilgore Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in Journalism. Past winners of the award, named after the man who oversaw The Wall Street Journal‘s post-World War II growth until his death in 1967, include Bob Bartley, […]
NYT hires banking reporter from WSJ
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia sent out the following announcement earlier this week: I am very pleased to announce that Jessica Silver-Greenberg is joining Business Day to cover banking. Jessica has been a reporter at the Wall Street Journal since 2010 and in a short time there distinguished herself […]
Apple favoring WSJ over NYT
Erik Wemple of the Washington Post writes about how The Wall Street Journal scored an exclusive interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook while the tech company shuts out rival business journalists at The New York Times. Wemple writes, “Says a source at the Times: ‘They are playing access journalism…I’ve heard it from people inside Apple: […]
NYT biz editor talks about new online video program
Larry Ingrassia, the business editor of the New York Times, was interviewed on Beet.tv by Andy Plesser about the business desk’s new six-minute webcast, called Business Day Live, that goes live on the paper’s home page everyday at 10:30 a.m. EST and is then available on demand. Read more here.
NYTimes starts video biz program
The New York Times launched Wednesday “Business Day Live,” a live video program that will feature video news reports of the day’s most important business stories on the NYTimes.com homepage every weekday morning. The program is broadcast live from The Times newsroom and offers the unique insights and analysis of reporters and columnists from The […]
The Deal Professor, the New York Times and M&A coverage
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Last year, New York Times tech columnist David Pogue was criticized for agreeing to make an appearance at a paid event for a public relations firm related to the tech industry. Although Pogue is a freelancer, he is a well-known byline for the business section. He agreed to present his appearances […]
MF Global collapse hurts Bloomberg
Azam Ahmed and Ben Protess of the New York Times writes about how the failure of MF Global affected Bloomberg L.P. Ahmed and Protess write, “The financial information giant Bloomberg L.P.lost about 600 subscriptions to its computer terminals — which translates to nearly $1 million in monthly revenue — after MF Global filed for bankruptcy […]
Top 10 biz journalism events for 2011
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Here are the top 10 events in business journalism in the past 12 months: 10. Randall Lane’s hiring as editor of Forbes in August. The business magazine has undergone a design and conceptual overhaul under Lewis Dvorkin. Now it’s time for Lane to execute with improved content that will draw in […]
Breakingviews will no longer appear in print NY Times
Rob Cox of Breakingviews writes Thursday that the column will no longer run in the print version of The New York Times but can be found on its website. Cox writes, “It has been an exciting period in financial journalism. But as times have changed, so must we. After the end of the year, Breakingviews […]
