As CNBC turns 25, Deogun reflects on business journalism
Nikhil Deogun is the senior vice president and editor in chief, business news, overseeing Business Day content, coverage and production at CNBC. Deogun joined CNBC in 2010 as managing editor of business news. Deogun joined CNBC from The Wall Street Journal, where he was the deputy managing editor, a position he has held since July […]
The news about women business owners
Colleen DeBaise is a journalist and author covering entrepreneurship. She is currently the director of digital media at The Story Exchange, a nonprofit media organization devoted to covering women business owners, and a contributor to The New York Times. Her book, “The Wall Street Journal Complete Small Business Guidebook,” was published in 2010. Prior to […]
How a biz journalist built a “content” business
Margot Carmichael Lester founded The Word Factory in 1993 and spends her time focusing on providing quality content for her clients. She began her journalism career as the high school correspondent for the Chapel Hill Weekly, edited by the famous Jim Shumaker. She’s covered business for a number of outlets including the Los Angeles Business […]
Kelly on Bloomberg journalism, live on stage
Jason Kelly has spent his entire career reporting and writing about business. He’s been a Bloomberg News reporter since 2002 where he’s covered private equity, global finance and technology. Before that, he worked in Atlanta for digital south magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Kelly is the author of “The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Industry […]
How a PR person started her own agency that works with biz journalists
Melissa Daly is the founding partner of MFD Communications in New York. In the summer of 2011, she started her strategic communications business and has worked to build a niche offering, bringing value to her clients. Prior to starting MFD, she worked in communications at Goldman Sachs and Brunswick Group. She spoke with Talking Biz News […]
From freelancer to start-up maven
Laura Baverman has been a business journalist since starting her career at the Cincinnati Business Courier in 2005 as a real estate and technology reporter. There she cultivated her love for covering entrepreneurs and start-ups as part of her beat reporting. In 2009 she moved to the Cincinnati Enquirer where she continued to write about […]
Absolute Return and the hedge fund beat
Josh Friedlander is editor of Absolute Return, which covers the hedge fund industry. He previously served as online editor of AR Magazine, and research editor and senior writer of Absolute Return. He joined HedgeFund Intelligence in 2005 from Investment Dealers’ Digest, a weekly magazine covering Wall Street, and had previously reported on Wall Street and […]
24/7 Wall St. and its place in business news
Douglas A. McIntyre is editor in chief and chief executive officer at New York-based 24/7 Wall St., a finance news website. He has previously been the editor-in-chief and publisher of Financial World Magazine from 1983 to 1995. He was also the first president of Switchboard.com when it was the 10th most visited website in the […]
The Huffington Post brand of business journalism
Peter S. Goodman is the executive business editor of The Huffington Post, where he supervises business, economic and technology coverage. He is also the global news editor and writes frequently about the upending of basic economic security for ordinary Americans and the search for new sources of quality jobs. Goodman joined the Huffington Post in […]
How Marketwatch uses polls of its readers to report stories
A Marketwatch.com story last week about investing in the Twitter initial public offering originated from a poll that had run earlier in the week that allowed folks to leave an email address if they wanted to be contacted by a reporter. It’s a reporting tactic that can be useful during a time when all journalists, […]
