Forbes writer comments on Peter Drucker
Paul Brown, who worked at the Star-Ledger in Newark and for Forbes, commented on the passing of business management guru Peter Drucker and his impact on his business journalism career on this blog. You can read his comments here.
The Financial Journalist newsletter last issue
For the past four years, the Certified Financial Analyst Institute in Charlottesville, Va., has published an online newsletter for financial reporters on trends and issues in the investment world. You can see the November issue here. However, this will be the last issue. The explanation given was: “For the past four years, the Financial Journalist […]
Update on Inc. and Fast Company
How are Inc. and Fast Company, the two business magazines that were purchased this summer by Morningstar founder Joe Mansueto, doing? USA Today has an article about what’s been going on since their purchase in this morning’s newspaper. You can read about it here. One interesting thing to note here is that the number of […]
San Jose Mercury News blog celebrates anniversary
Silicon Beat, the business news blog at the San Jose Mercury News, celebrated its one-year anniversary on Friday. As near as I can tell, it’s the oldest business news blog out there. The two writers, Matt Marshall and Mike Bazeley, had a nice commentary on the anniversary, asking for advice on how they can make […]
LA Times biz columnist will now blog
According to this item from LA Observed, Michael Hiltzik, who writes a twice-weekly column for the Los Angeles Times’ business section, has started blogging about business. The blog is called “Golden State,” which is also the name of his column, and its slogan is “Business, economics and more with a California edge.” You can read […]
Congrats to Bernie
Bernie Kohn, who oversees the business section at The Baltimore Sun, has been named the new secretary/treasurer for SABEW, which means he will become the president in 2008. At a SABEW conference in Boston a few years ago, Bernie introduced a panel that he and I both sat on as possibly the only time two […]
New Orleans business coverage
Thought I would check back in at the New Orleans Times-Picayune to see what types of stories they were writing related to the business aspects of Hurricane Katrina. What I found was a lot of stories discussing the storm’s impact. This morning’s paper had a story about how a lot of local businesses would like […]
Bloomberg for sale?
The rumors that business data information and news wire service company Bloomberg LP is for sale are circulating again. There was a story in the British newspaper The Independent today. In addition, the Wall Street Journal has also written a speculative story about the potential for the company to be sold. Both stories give a […]
Reporting on the Fed
I spent some time on Monday talking to reporters and editors who follow the Federal Reserve about the new chairman Ben Bernanke and how he will differ in his dealings with the media compared to outgoing chairman Alan Greenspan, who was one of the most visable people covered in business journalism in the past 18 […]
COMING TOMORROW!!!
What some prominent Federal Reserve reporters think about the nomination of Bernanke to be the next Fed chairman and how they think their beat will change.
