Missed this during the holidays
But the Guild has reached an agreement on a new contract with Reuters and with the Associated Press. The deal was announced on Dec. 22. I have not found any votes ratifying the deals. The negotiations with the Reuters management had been at times vitriolic. When I took a group of Business Reporting students to […]
Mining disaster coverage
Nice coverage of the public records regarding all of the safety issues at the West Virginia mine in this morning’s USA Today. Among the items mentioned in the story were these: “• The number of infractions issued to the Sago Mine last year was “higher than would be normally issued to a mine that size,” […]
How will WSJ cover this executive compensation story?
I’m big on reading SEC filings, and the 8-K filed by Dow Jones disclosing the compensation of departing Wall Street Journal publisher Karen Elliott House is sure to draw a lot of attention as a follow-up to Tuesday’s major news of the management shakeup at the company. House, according to the filing, which was first […]
Jon Friedman's Hot and Not for 2006
Jon Friedman writes the media column for Marketwatch.com. He’s a former Bloomberg and BusinessWeek reporter. His recent column on what’s In and Out for 2006 includes this: Who’s in: Fox Business Channel Who’s out: CNBC It’s not exactly front-page news any more to say that Fox is moving forward with a plan to create a […]
Coal mine disaster from a business news perspective
Here are some tips on covering the coal mine disaster in West Virginia that occurred in the last couple of days from a business perspective: 1. The parent company of the mine is International Coal Group, which just went public in November and is an amalgamation of bankrupt and other coal mine operations into one […]
More on Zannino
More important snippets from coverage of the change at the top at Dow Jones: 1. Richard Zannino, the incoming CEO of Dow Jones, told the Washington Post that he has no plans of getting rid of Barron’s, the company’s weekly business newspaper aimed at investors. The newspaper has lost 30 percent of its ads, according […]
Has anything changed on Squawk Box other than the talking heads?
Just catching up on what I missed during the holidays, and I ran across this press release from CNBC trumpeting the new Squawk Box show. You can read the release here. I’ve read the release a couple of times, and I’ve looked at the show, and I still can’t figure out what’s new other than […]
Dow Jones to sell out in 2006?
That’s the prediction of Peter Newcomb at Forbes, who writes today that he thinks that the Bancroft family, which controls the majority of stock in the company, will sell Dow Jones, including the Wall Street Journal. Read the entire posting online here. Here is his prediction: “The Bold Prediction The Bancroft clan finally throws in […]
Circulation problems at Forbes and BusinessWeek
According to a recent report from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, business magazines Forbes and BusinessWeek fell short of their stated circulation promised advertisers. You can read about it in Jon Fine’s On Media blog. To date, the circulation scandals had been primarily confined to daily newspapers, so these revelations are not too good for […]
Another paper to drop stock listings
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has joined the newspapers that will no longer run full stock listings during the week. The paper says it will carry stock listings on Saturday and Sunday. See the full story here. The can’t be good news for the business news hole in Rochester.
