More WSJ journalists upset about jet story
Women’s Wear Daily broke the story late last year that a number of reporters at The Wall Street Journal were upset about a story about timeshare jets that ran next to the ads of some companies in the story, and now Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post has more. Kurtz wrote, “Some Journal staffers, meanwhile, […]
Papers create blogs to cover tech
It seems only natural to start a blog to cover the biggest geek fest of the year. At least two papers have started new technology blogs in the first week of the year, using the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as their news peg. The New York Times launched a blog called “Bit” this […]
Gadfly Davis gives money to UNC for business journalism scholarships
Evelyn Y. Davis, the nationally recognized advocate for shareholder rights, and the Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation have contributed $100,000 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication to endow four annual scholarships for senior undergraduate students interested in careers in business journalism or political journalism. “Mrs. Davis’ very […]
Florida paper cuts stock listings
Naples Daily News editor Phil Lewis said in his Sunday column that the Florida paper will cut its stock listings beginning this week. Lewis wrote, “We currently devote four full pages a day to market listings. In the future we will have one page a day. Half of the page will list the 1,000 most […]
Business journalists act like stenographers sometimes
TheStreet.com’s Mark Fuchs wonders why business journalists, especially those who work at the wires, act like stenographers when breaking news occurs. Fuchs wrote, “A press release hits the wires at 8:30 a.m. EST on Friday. It travels into the public consciousness, and within 90 minutes, four news outlets write several sentences each on it. Boys […]
Cable and Internet pushing business journalism
David Lee Smith of the Motley Fool writes Friday that the expansion of business journalism in recent years has been fueled by cable television and the Internet, and that more competition is coming. Smith wrote, “This is a sector of the news that has been somewhat slow to develop and mature, at least on a […]
Who paid for union ad in New York Times?
As noted earlier, the union representing business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch and Dow Jones Newswire ran an ad in the New York Times on Tuesday about the redesigned Journal and its current negotiations with parent company Dow Jones. Apparently the union, the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, has received a few […]
Get to know your biz reporter better
A Red Herring story that discusses how Dow Jones is making videos from The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch available on blinkx and Lycos talks about using its business journalists more for the medium. Michael Cohn wrote, “Dow Jones has also been working on enlisting the entire news staff on developing original video content. […]
WSJ missed chance to make a big splash
The New York Post’s Keith Kelly wrote that some insiders at the Wall Street Journal believe the paper missed a chance to make a big splash with its redesign, which was unveiled Tuesday, because many of its top journalists were on or returning from vacation and the introduction was made during a slow news period. […]
WSJ redesign shows emphasis on Internet
BusinessWeek’s Catherine Holohan wrote that the redesigned Wall Street Journal is actually showing that newspapers need to focus more on what they’re doing on the Internet if they want to keep their readers. Holohan said, “The once-ignored stepchild is getting a lot more attention lately, both from Internet-savvy audiences and deep-pocketed advertisers. Perhaps the biggest […]
