Business journalists named to Digital Hall of Fame
Three business journalists have been named to the min Digital Hall of Fame for their work in developing their media outlet’s online presence. They are John Byrne of BusinessWeek, Dave Morrow of TheStreet.com and Kevin Poulsen of Wired. For Byrne, the Hall of Fame stated, “John understands that the Internet changes the editorial equation and […]
TheStreet.com CEO abruptly announces departure
TheStreet.com CEO Thomas Clarke announced Friday that he was leaving the company immediately, reports Hilary Potkewitz of Crain’s New York Business. Potkewitz writes, “He’s been temporarily replaced by Daryl Otte, a longtime director on the company’s board, who will serve as chief until the search committee, which he is leading, finds a new CEO. “Outsized […]
Assessing TheStreet.com's fourth-quarter earnings
Peter Kafka of All Things Digital takes a look at TheStreet.com’s fourth-quarter results. Kafka writes, “No surprise that Jim Cramer’s TheStreet.com had a crummy fourth quarter: Selling ads or subscriptions for a financial Web site was a tough proposition in the last three months of 2008. But maybe things will get better later on this […]
Kass defends Cramer
Doug Kass, a money manager who writes for TheStreet.com, defends CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer and his investment picks on Monday while noting that he does so without any prodding from TheStreet.com, where Cramer is a major investor and board member. Cramer’s picks were the subject of a Barron’s article this weekend. Kass writes, […]
A midlife career change to become a business journalist
Karen Croke of The Journal News in Westchester County writes Monday about Debra Borchardt, who left a six-figure salary at Bear Stearns to become a financial reporter. Borchardt now works for TheStreet.com. Croke writes, “After a short stint on CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ while still at NYU, she was hired to write for TheStreet.com. Last year, […]
How covering financial panics through the years has changed
FiLife.com editor at large Dave Kansas writes in the introduction to his new book “The End of Wall Street As We Know It” about how business coverage of economic turmoils has changed during the past decade. Kansas writes, “As a financial journalist, I’ve witnessed other financial panics. The Asian financial crisis of 1997. The Russian […]
TheStreet.com to syndicate content to newspapers
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Financial news site The Street.com will begin offering syndication of its news content at no cost to newspapers, editor Glenn Hall said Friday. “All we seek in return is prominent attribution and links to our site from the byline at the top of our stories when they are published on a newspaper’s […]
Speculation about Apple products
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs wonders why the business media indulges in speculation about new Apple products in advance of the MacWorld Expo. Fuchs writes, “In all seriousness, few events outside of mergers and acquisitions provoke such rank speculation from the business media as the Macworld conference, the staging ground of many Apple product introductions in the […]
Stop using "Big Three" to refer to the automakers
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs writes that the business media needs to stop using the “Big Three” moniker to refer to Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. Ford, he notes, is not in as bad shape as the other two. Fuchs writes, “The Business Press Maven has tried to separate out Ford in the recent past, […]
Take gas, car data out of retail sales reports, please
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs writes Monday that the business media focused too much on reporting Friday the overall retail sales number, which includes gas and car sales, without looking specifically at retail only. Fuchs writes, “Look at the abject hopelessness, the grinding disappointment of this MarketWatch headline: ‘Retail sales fall 1.8% in fifth straight […]
