New show on CNBC to interview global players
The press release states: “Sabine Christiansen, Germany’s most watched and most important political television presenter, has joined CNBC Europe to produce and host a series of 12 new programs that will be broadcast around the world on CNBC. “The new 60-minute program, titled ‘Global Players with Sabine Christiansen,’ will consist of hard-hitting dialogue with top […]
Jack and Suzy Welch start a BusinessWeek column
Former General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch and his wife Suzy, former editor of the Harvard Business Review, have begun writing a column in BusinessWeek dispensing managing advice. One of the questions being tackled in the first column, in the Jan. 30 edition on newsstands today, came from a recently promoted senior executive, Welch said […]
Should business journalists be criticizing SarbOx
Sarbanes-Oxley, the federal law that requires public companies to be more diligent in disclosing financial and accounting information about the results, has been criticized by many in corporate America, but Reason magazine’s Brian Doherty thinks that business journalists should also be complaining about it. Doherty writes: “Critics in academia and business journalism—and many from the […]
Boston talk radio station adds business news show
This is a first for the blog: I’m writing about business journalism on radio. WRKO, a Boston-based talk radio station, has added a business news show this week. Ironic when other media forms, such as newspapers, seem to be cutting their business information by eliminating stock listings. Here is the announcement: “WRKO AM 680, Boston’s […]
Wall Street Journal TV show on Fox debuts this weekend
Here is a snippet of the release: “The Journal Editorial Report, a production of The Wall Street Journal, will debut on FOX News Channel (FNC) on Saturday, January 21st at 11 PM/ET. The program will also run on Sunday at 6 AM/ET. “Hosted by Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot, the weekly half-hour program features newsmakers […]
A PR person's perspective on posting interviews online
I hate to beat a dead horse, but we have yet to hear from all sides of the issue regarding Overstock.com President Patrick Byrne’s posting on the Internet of his responses to a long list of questions from BusinessWeek e-commerce editor Timothy Mullaney — before the story was published in the magazine or on its […]
New business paper to start near Seattle
Puget Sound Publishing Co., which already publishes a newspaper called The Business Report that goes to businesses south of Seattle, is starting a similarly named newspaper to be sent to businesses in communities east of Seattle. The publication will have an initial circulation of 16,000 and will be mailed to every business address in Bellevue, […]
Please shoot me if I ever watch this show
The New York Observer is reporting this morning that CNBC’s Jim Cramer is developing a reality television show where people would receive a certain amount of money to invest and the winner would be the one that showed the biggest return on their investment. The Observer writes: “King of Wall Street, as the show is […]
North Texas biz journalism program founder dies
George Christy, a University of North Texas finance professor who helped create the university’s business journalism program, died in December, according to an article in the NT Daily student newspaper. Christy also wrote several finance columns in the Denton Record-Chronicle and The Dallas Morning News in the 1980s and 1990s and offered expert commentary on […]
Dow Jones agrees to purchase New England Business Bulletin
Ottaway Newspapers, which is a subsidiary of Dow Jones, has agreed to purchase the New England Business Bulletin, according to this item. I could not find an official release on the transaction on the Dow Jones home page or on PR Newswire. The Business Bulletin is a monthly with 45,000 readers. The item I found […]
