SABEW adds columnist category to BEST in BUSINESS

SABEW has added a new category to its annual Best in Business contest. They are now opening it up for columnists. A student category was added last year. The column category will break down into the same circulation divisions as its breaking news, enterprise and projects categories. There also will be an additional category for […]

The Apprentice has a business journalist

Given the Donald’s relationship with a New York Times writer who recently published a book about his operations, I’m surprised to discover that there is a business reporter who is one of the contestants on The Apprentice. Her name is Rebecca Jarvis, and she has posted some of her stories for Crain’s Chicago Business and […]

European and Asian editions of BusinessWeek bite the dust

BusinessWeek, the largest business magazine published in the world, is cutting back. The New York-based magazine, which got a new editor earlier this year, announced that it was cutting its European and Asian editions at the end of the year. It will keep its overseas bureaus, but now the focus will be on providing specialized […]

New York Times' biz reporter dies of cancer

I first met Connie Hays, who died earlier this week of cancer, back in 1996 or 1997 when she took over the beverage beat at the New York Times. Since I covered Coke for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, we ran into each other frequently at events, and I always read what she wrote because she was […]

Reynolds Center survey of business editors

Today at an American Press Institute workshop for business editors in Reston, Va., the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism presented some interesting research on business section content. Here is a summary of some of the highlights: 112 respondents to the survey from May to July, with about half of the respondents coming […]

Cutbacks at Chicago Tribune

According to a memo posted on the Romenesko site from Anne Marie Lipinski, the Chicago Tribune editor, the largest paper in the Midwest is cutting back on its business coverage, among other things, to save money. Here is the specific wording from the memo, which can be found here: The newspaper will “scale back staffing […]

Contradictory stories

Very rarely in business journalism do you see an instance of one prominent media outlet reporting on a business story and then another prominent media outlet reporting on the same story but essentially saying that the other media outlet got it wrong. But that’s the case with the coverage of money manager Private Capital Management’s […]

LA Times and Chicago Trib considering cutting stock listings

The story was in the Wall Street Journal this morning. You can read it here. This does not surprise me. Many newspapers have cut their stock listings in the past few years, and some papers only run the stocks that are widely held in their area. But the big metropolitan papers have always run a […]

Shopping stories today

Here is a compilation of day after Thanksgiving shopping stories that I found online this evening: 1. CNN.com’s headline focused on the bargains that retailers were already offering in its story here. 2. The CBS News story online also focused on the bargains as well as estimates from some of the largest retailers that crowds […]

Maria's column in BusinessWeek

If you haven’t seen it yet, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, who became famous for her reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, now has a twice-weekly column in BusinessWeek. Apparently this does not conflict with her primary employer’s relationship with The Wall Street Journal. The Money Honey’s initial column, which is called “Face […]