Bloomberg's Winkler upset with Bloomberg TV standards
Matt Winkler, the editor in chief of Bloomberg News, has attacked the quality of reporting at Bloomberg Television in his latest weekly internal e-mail, obtained by Hamilton Nolan of Gawker. Winkler wrote, “Readers, listeners and viewers rely on Bloomberg News to give them facts, not glib labels, cliches or gossip. “A Bloomberg Television graphic labeled […]
Adjectives and the AIG coverage
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs comments Wednesday about the adjectives used to describe the scuttled AIG deal to sell its Asian life insurance business.
New Mississippi biz reporter and her job change
LaTonya Felix, the new business reporter at the Hattiesburg American in Mississippi, writes about her new beat and how it’s different from covering entertainment, her old beat. Felix writes, “For the past few years, my main job was writing about local entertainment. I’ve written a weekly column spouting off about my favorite pop culture. “Now […]
Getting the details with Murdoch
Zeke Turner of The New York Observer writes how former Wall Street Journal reporter Sarah Ellison was able to obtain many of the details she used in her book “War at The Wall Street Journal,” including the scene of when News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch got rid of the paper’s managing editor, Marcus Brauchli. Turner […]
Covering banking investigations
Stephen Engelberg from ProPublica offers some advice about covering a bank that is being investigated by authorities. Engelberg writes, “To be fair, this is honest journalistic labor. I’ve done it as a reporter in Washington, and we’re doing a bit of it ourselves right now on several stories, from Wall Street to New Orleans. Without […]
Biz reporters must balance being first with being right
The balance between being first and being right in business reporting has a direct impact on how economic players react, the Reuters news service’s senior U.S. economics correspondent said Friday in Tulsa. Emily Kaiser said at the Tulsa Press Club’s Distinguished Journalism Lecture that the environment of speed over accuracy can lead to mistakes, a […]
The evolution of consumer reporting
Erin Locker writes on CollegeBizJournalism.org about how consumer reporting has evolved due to the Internet. Locker writes, “Mass budget cuts and layoffs put the consumer beat on the backburner as editors were forced to prioritize. “Mark Watanabe, technology editor at The Seattle Times, says the newspaper’s consumer coverage is much more limited than it used […]
Cuss words and business journalism
Allen Wastler, the managing editor of CNBC.com, writes about the issue facing business journalists covering the Congressional hearings about Goldman Sachs earlier this week — do you use the cuss words spoken or not? Wastler writes, “Journalistically the actual use of the word is valid: It is central to how a Goldman employee really felt […]
Being a small-town biz reporter
Tom Hacker, the former editor of the Northern Colorado Business Report and now a reporter for the Loveland Reporter Herald in Colordao, writes about what it was like to edit and report for the weekly business paper. Hacker writes, “No other profession is more relationship-based than journalism. Building trust and developing reliable sources for information has […]
Covering business in Haiti after the earthquake
National Public Radio business reporter Adam Davidson went to Haiti recently to report, and he talked about his experience with Andrea Pitzer of the Neiman Storyboard. Here is an excerpt: You ended up doing a piece on the tap-tap buses and small businesses in a tent city. How did you find those stories? I had […]
