Morgenson: Better to be a biz journalist because of public information
New York Times business journalist Gretchen Morgenson spoke earlier this week at the Page One Awards in Minneapolis. Here is an excerpt: More important, if you want to gain respect inside the journalistic community and even from those you cover, that’s far easier to do by being a tough but fair reporter than it is […]
Frankie Flack: In defense of flackery
There is this guy, Dave, who plays on my softball team. He thinks I have the world’s worst job because I have to interact with the media. “Hate those guys,” he tells me. “Useless, all of them. No faith in those guys at all.” Every time he starts railing on the media, I have to […]
Financial journalists more optimistic about profession
Financial journalists have become more optimistic about their profession than they were a year ago, according to survey results released Wednesday. Forty-four percent expressed a positive outlook about their work, up from 32 percent a year ago, according to the 2015 Gorkana Survey of Financial Journalists of more than 400 business journalists. They survey was […]
A business reporter takes on a machine in writing earnings
Stacey Vanek Smith of “Planet Money” writes about how NPR reporter Scott Horsley fared in writing the earnings story for Denny’s Corp. compared to a machine programmed to write the same story. Smith writes, “The rules for the race: Both contenders waited for Denny’s, the diner company, to come out with an earnings report. Once […]
Reuters launches investigative news site
Reuters this week has launched a new microsite featuring access to all Reuters investigations and special reports. The site allows users to access a full archive of investigations produced by Reuters since 2013, sorted by year. Global enterprise editor Mike Williams said: Reporters and editors in Reuters bureaus around the world often ask me what kind of […]
Yahoo sues ex-employee for giving information to reporter
Yahoo Inc. sued a former employee over claims she “brazenly” divulged confidential information about the company to a reporter who was writing a book about Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer’s leadership. Joel Rosenblatt and Brian Womack of Bloomberg News report, “Yahoo claims that Cecile Lal, a former senior director of product management, broke a confidentiality […]
How Bloomberg News won a Pulitzer Prize
Bloomberg News produced a video about the series of articles by reporter Zach Mider that won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. The series of articles was about corporate tax inversions. It was the first Pulitzer awarded to Bloomberg.
WSJ reporter Newman is a life-long skeptic
Matthew Kassel of the New York Observer profiles former Wall Street Journal reporter Barry Newman, who wrote more than 400 A-hed feature stories for the paper’s front page and has a new book out about feature writing called “News to Me.” Kassel writes, “He went to the Journal in 1970 and started out on the […]
Andrew Ross Sorkin: Money is the prism of everything.
Capital New York talked with Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC and the New York Times’ Dealbook about his work. Here is an excerpt: CAPITAL: Between “Squawk Box” and this primetime special, do you try to put on different hats when you do these different shows? SORKIN: I would say that my whole career is effectively […]
Fox Biz’s Smith: Money behind every story
Capital New York interviewed Fox Business Network reporter Sandra Smith, who is co-host of the “Outnumbered” show. Here is an excerpt: CAPITAL: The panel is interesting in that it is not just a group of women and “One Lucky Guy,” it is a mix of journalists and commentators. SMITH: I couldn’t have said it better, […]
