Indianapolis reader still wants stocks back
It’s been nearly a year since the Indianapolis Star decided to cut its stock listings, but at least one reader is still upset with the move. Lynn Beck wrote, “I understand that this information is available online; however, many of us still enjoy flipping through the actual paper in the morning while drinking our coffee […]
WSJ's advantage: It has been "online" longer than its competitors
David Warsh, writing on the Economic Principals web site, muses about the Wall Street Journal’s recent redesign and points out that it has an advantage over other business publications. Warsh wrote, “Long before the Internet, before Bloomberg put an extensive news report in a desktop terminal along with its proprietary history of bond prices, there […]
What business journalists want during earnings season
Jonathan Berr, editor of desperateinvestors.com, has some advice for analysts and other people on Wall Street on what they need to do to get quoted in stories during earnings season. Berr, a former Bloomberg News and TheStreet.com reporter, gave five tips. Here are three of them: 2) Actually give your opinion — It used to […]
Aguirre defends one Pulitzer winner, but not another
Gary Aguirre, the former SEC attorney who has testified before Congress about preferential treatment he believes the agency gave certain Wall Streeters, defended one business journalist, but not another, TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow pointed out in her latest column. Kantrow wrote that Aguirre wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal last week where […]
Canada's Financial Post turns 100 today
The Financial Post, a business newspaper in Canada, celebrates its 100th birthday on Friday, and the paper’s web site has a number of features looking at its history. Diane Francis of the paper’s editorial staff wrote, “The Post’s mainstay has been news and analysis about the country’s capital markets, economic well-being and business events. “Its […]
Economist already doing what WSJ plans to offer
Hamilton Nolan points out that the changes at the Wall Street Journal announced last month to provide more “value-added” coverage to the paper is simply what The Economist has been providing to its readers for years. Nolan wrote, “The fact that the editorial stance of the magazine is to say what it means is surprisingly […]
CNN show selectively picks and chooses quotes
Ken Shepherd of the Business & Media Institute writes Wednesday that a recent segment on CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” show seletively uses quotes from a source that makes them appear to be in favor of raising taxes when they are not. Shepherd wrote, “Anchor Lou Dobbs sounded the alarm about federal highways ‘now being sold […]
Q&A with Wall Street Journal publisher
Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz recently oversaw a redesign of the newspaper, making it smaller, but also focusing it more on analysis instead of breaking news. Crovitz began his career at Dow Jones in 1980 as a summer intern writing editorials for The Journal. He was founding editorial page editor of The Wall Street […]
WSJ, Marketwatch union: Company becoming impatient
An update posted on the web site of the union that represents business journalists working at The Wall Street Journal, Marketwatch, Dow Jones Newswires and Barron’s stated that the Dow Jones negotiators are becoming impatient in recent contract negotiations. The update stated, “They told us at our four-hour bargaining session on Tuesday January 9th that […]
Grumpy editor: Economic outlooks confuse readers
I’ve discovered a new blog recently called Grumpy Editor. One of his recent comments focused on the fact that stories about what the U.S. economy is going to do in 2007 have had different opinions. Grumpy Editor wrote, “In the why-business-editors-reach-for-the-aspirins department (leading to befuddled readers): contrary outlooks for the coming year. “While a front […]
