WaPo readers respond to cut stock listings
Jill Dutt, the assistant managing editor of financial news at the Washington Post, took questions online Tuesday about the newspaper’s decision to cut stock and mutual fund listings, beginning with this morning’s paper. Readers pointed out errors and expressed their displeasure with the decision. A subscriber since 1989 from Clarksville, Md., wrote, “Whoever prompted you […]
Former ComputerWorld editor returns
Bill Laberis, who was editor in chief of ComputerWorld from 1986 to 1996, is returning to the publication as vice president of custom content strategy, according to a release. During Laberis’ editorial tenure, Computerworld won more than 80 awards for editorial and design excellence, including the Computer Press Association’s award as Best Computer Newspaper an […]
Mercury News names two reporters to be columnists
The San Jose Mercury News has named reporters Dean Takahashi and Michelle Quinn as their newest business columnists, according to a short item in Monday’s paper. The item stated, “By naming these two veteran Mercury News staff writers as columnists, we add unique and insightful coverage of Silicon Valley. “Takahashi’s ‘Tech Talk’ will appear Mondays […]
Former NYT retail reporter Barmash dies at 84
Isadore Barmash, a New York Times retail reporter from 1965 to 1991 whose byline was well-known, died Thursday. He was 84. Barmash, according to an obituary in the New York Times, continued to write even after he retired from the paper. Robert McFadden wrote, “In the genteelly cutthroat world of retail merchandising, where greed, secrets, […]
WSJ article forgets to give readers context
Marek Fuchs of TheStreet.com noted in his Saturday column that a Wall Street Journal article about where American vehicles ranked among Consumer Reports’ most reliable cars forgot to give the readers any context as to how U.S. cars ranked last year. Fuchs wrote, “Ford’s newest models scored among the top reliable vehicles, one the second-most […]
Advertising up at WSJ, down at Barron's in October
Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, reported that advertising for its flagship paper was up by more than 5 percent in October but fell at its weekly publication for the month, according to a press release. The release stated, “Advertising revenue at The Wall Street Journal increased 5.7% in […]
The most worthless line ever in business journalism
TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs was all beside himself after listening to a National Public Radio “Marketplace” segment on what the election results will mean to the stock market. Fuchs wrote, “It opens with the lead-in from the host, ‘For some on Wall Street, gridlock is not such a bad thing.’ “At that, The Business Press Maven […]
New York biz journalists a world apart from the rest of us
Don Mecoy, a business reporter for the Oklahoman, wrote Wednesday about his trip to New York last week for the Society of American Business and Editors fall conference. Mecoy came away with the belief that business journalism in New York is much different than what he and other business journalists around the country practice because […]
Weiss to write column for Forbes.com
Forbes.com announced that investigative journalist and author Gary Weiss will pen a regular column for the site titled Muckraker, focusing on international business and Wall Street. His inaugural column, India’s Nuclear Option, is available here. “Gary is among an elite group of journalists whose zest for investigative journalism has brought real change to the subjects […]
Can Dow, WSJ reporters make transition to video?
Erick Schonfeld at Business 2.0 wonders whether the reporters at Marketwatch, The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s can make the conversion to video as its parent company begins video streaming on its web sites. Schonfeld wrote, “All three are powered by Brightcove on the backend, and show exactly the same video content—print journalists on camera […]
