Cullen joins Reuters as wealth management editor
Terri Cullen, an award-winning financial journalist and author, has been hired by Reuters to the newly created role of wealth management editor. Cullen, who begins on Monday, will be based in New York and will report to Richard Baum, global editor of consumer media, Reuters. In this new role, Cullen will serve as both editor […]
Bloomberg drops Wasik's personal finance column
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Bloomberg News has dropped John Wasik‘s award-winning personal finance column, the writer confirmed to Talking Biz News on Monday. Running for the past eight years, the column was eliminated as Bloomberg moved to consolidate its purchase of BusinessWeek. Earlier this year, Wasik had shared the personal finance beat with Jane Bryant […]
Consumer Reports uses ad to get message across
Richard Perez-Pena of the New York Times writes Monday about how Consumer Reports magazine has advertised, for the fourth consecutive year, in newspapers about the traps of Christmas shopping. Perez-Pena writes, “The new ad, appearing in USA Today, says, ‘It’s time we told retailers how you feel about their pushy holiday-season practices.’ Then it cites […]
Dallas paper's biz section expands relationship with financial planners
Bob Mong, the editor of the Dallas Morning News, writes Sunday about how the paper has expanded its relationship with the Financial Planning Association of Dallas-Fort Worth. Mong writes, “‘For years, we have answered readers’ financial questions in the Business section. Now we’ve taken the service much further, thanks to a network of local financial […]
SF Chronicle starts blog about work
The San Francisco Chronicle has started a new blog called Get to Work, aimed at people looking for jobs or working for themselves as independent contractors, freelancers or consultants. A short announcement states, “Edited by Chronicle economics writer Tom Abate, with help from career coach Kimberly Thompson, this blog is about how to succeed during tough […]
Latino personal finance reporting winners named
Journalists from The Roanoke Times, El Sentinel, and Real Atlanta will receive the first McGraw-Hill Personal Finance Journalism Awards, according to the International Center for Journalists. The winners produced stories that helped raise financial literacy in Hispanic communities. The journalists were among 30 reporters from print, online, radio and television news organizations who participated in […]
Good biz journalism on Sesame Street
Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review likes how the PBS show “Sesame Street” explained how the current economic turmoil has affected families. Chittum writes, “I only saw the last forty minutes or so of the one-hour special, so don’t consider this a full review. But let me tell you what I saw: Poignant stories […]
The founding of Minyanville
Todd Harrison, one of the founders of the Minyanville personal finance site, has been writing an account of its founding on the Marketwatch.com site recently. In the latest edition, Harrison writes, “My primary focus was the fund, where I was entering the second year of a two-year deal. The other was Minyanville, which encapsulated my […]
Mixing personal finance and religion
Jay Reeves of the Associated Press writes about Fox Business Network‘s Dave Ramsey, whose personal finance show is one of its best rated and who often discusses religion and money together. Reeves writes, “Ramsey doesn’t deny mixing religion and business, and he doesn’t apologize for getting rich doing it, either. Business is a ministry, he […]
Gombossy keeps on company's tails
Jim Gold of JiltedJournalists.com profiles former Hartford Courant business editor George Gombossy, who was fired from his job as consumer watchdog columnist at the paper last month for refusing to kowtow to advertiser’s interests. Gombossy has started his own Web site about consumer issues in Connecticut. Gold writes, “As the site develops quickly, it is […]
