Morgan Stanley CEO asks for off-the-record discussion with biz journalist
Dylan Stableford of Yahoo News writes that Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman has asked for an off-the-record meeting with Fox Business Network reporter Charles Gasparino after the business journalist called him out on the air for not talking. Stableford writes, “‘Gorman, you know, is a good guy, but he won’t go before the cameras,’ Gasparino […]
Adjusting to life as a TV business journalist
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Kayla Tausche joined CNBC in January 2011 as a general assignment reporter covering corporate finance and deals for CNBC’s Business Day programming. In 2011, Tausche covered a wide range of stories for the network including the Occupy Wall Street movement, the News Corp phone hacking scandal and the bankruptcy of MF […]
Being a daily newspaper biz editor in the 21st century
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Becky Bisbee is the business editor of the Seattle Times, a position she has held since August 2000. Before that, Bisbee was business editor of the Austin American-Statesman in Texas for five years. She began her business journalism career at the Modesto Bee in 1984 and rose to become its business […]
CNBC posts new Bain story explaining what happened
CNBC‘s Eamon Javers has posted a new story on the business news channel’s website explaining what happened with its reporting of Bain & Co.’s involvement in the federal government’s auto bailout. Javers writes. “In an email to CNBC late Thursday night, Bain & Company Global Public Relations Manager Dan Pinkney demanded an ‘immediate retraction’ of […]
On the billionaire beat
David Brauer of MinnPost.com writes about Erin Carlyle, a Forbes reporter recently hired to cover billionaires who previously spent some time as a reporter in Minneapolis. Brauer writes, “Carlyle’s own path to the wealth beat is a good illustration that journalism isn’t a straight-line thing. She started at a tiny weekly in San Francisco’s bay […]
On being a kick ass business journalist
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE David Evans is an investigative business journalist who writes for Bloomberg Markets. A graduate of the University of Southern California Law Center, he spent five years prosecuting fraud for the U.S. government as a trial attorney for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission before joining Bloomberg in 1992. He joined the magazine’s […]
The reasoning behind Bloomberg’s sustainability coverage
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Eric Roston is a journalist who oversees Bloomberg News new initiative in covering sustainability-related issues. Roston peviously wrote The Climate Post, a popular weekly climate-and-energy news analysis at ClimatePost.net, and was affiliated with the the Washington, DC office of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. Previously, Roston wrote for […]
The quality of tech journalism
Hunter Walk, a Google product management developer, had a post on his personal blog last week that included a sample of responses from tech journalists about the quality of the field. Here are a few examples: Liz Gannes, AllThingsD I generally write about what I want to read about. I always have a bajillion more […]
The heady rush of covering retail during the holiday season
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Maria Halkias has covered retail since 1993 in the business section at The Dallas Morning News. She joined The News in 1983 and prior beats were the Texas economy and the oil and gas business. She’s a native of Gary, Ind., and a graduate of Valparaiso University. Her first newspaper job […]
A business journalist’s dream: To get mentioned in an SEC filing
Yes, business journalists are geeks. We get excited reading Securities and Exchange Commission filings and waiting for a company’s earnings release. That’s why the amended S-1 filed Thursday by Zynga Inc. for its initial public offering should warm the cockles of the Bloomberg News reporter who wrote this story. The filing, on p. 18, included […]
