Biz journalists don't stoop to the level of Hewlett-Packard

Some interesting comments coming out in response to the front-page article in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week written by one of the reporters who was spied upon by Hewlett-Packard Co. First, Peter Cohan on BloggingStocks.com wrote, “There are many levels of irony in this story. Reporters do all sorts of investigations on their […]

CNBC's Liesman avoids predicting oil prices

CNBC’s senior economics reporter Steve Liesman is in Texas this week, first to interview former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev but also to attend the Permian Basin International Oil Show. (Liesman was once Moscow bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal.) In an interview with the Odessa American, he talked about how he covers economics, and […]

Who were Bloomberg's potential suitors?

A number of media covered the Wednesday announcement that Bloomberg L.P. was not for sale. Here are some interesting tidbits that went beyond Mike Bloomberg’s statement. 1. Keith Kelly at the New York Post wrote, “Rumors have been swirling around the Bloomberg newsroom for months that the Carlyle Group or another private-equity behemoth was looking […]

How Hewlett-Packard spied on this business reporter

In a first-person story on the front page of Thursday’s Wall Street Journal, reporter Pui-Wing Tam said Hewlett-Packard disclosed to her on Wednesday that it hired a security firm that rummaged through the garbage of her suburban home, hoping to glean possible details about her reporting efforts. “I learned this – and more – as […]

BW editor Adler focusing magazine on the Internet

Financial Times reporter Aline van Duyn interviewed BusinessWeek editor Stephen Adler about what he’s been doing at the paper, and she wrote that Adler got the job last year after working at the Wall Street Journal by emphasizing how the weekly could take advantage of the Internet. Van Duyn wrote, “As well as appointing a […]

Dow Jones buys rest of Factiva from Reuters for $160 million

Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, agreed to purchase the 50 percent stake in Factiva that it doesn’t already own from rival Reuters for $160 million, according to published reports. The Associated Press reported, “Founded in 1999 as a 50-50 joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters to […]

BW radio person to join WSJ Radio Network

The Wall Street Journal Radio Network announced that veteran broadcast business journalist Ray Hoffman, who has been with BusinessWeek in its radio operations, will join the network as afternoon drive business news anchor beginning Nov. 1, according to a story on Radio Ink. In an e-mail, Hoffman says that he will be with BusinessWeek through […]

Sandy Weill and CNBC's Gasparino are not friends

Don’t invite former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill and Charles Gasparino, a former Wall Street Journal reporter now at CNBC, to the same party, according to a story in the New York Post. Weill has made comments in his new book about Gasparino’s reporting that has the journalist hiring an attorney. Suzanne Kapner wrote, “The latest […]

Economics reporters struggle to reach non-economists with coverage

At a recent panel of economics reporters at Dartmouth College, a number of the top journalists in the profession expressed how difficult it was to reach the average consumer with their stories. Among those on the panel were CNBC’s Steve Liesman, The Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip, and BusinessWeek’s Peter Coy. (Disclosure: I worked with […]

Front page ad on WSJ not necessarily good for companies

Advertising Age’s Nat Ives wrote Monday about how General Motors had a front-page ad on the Wall Street Journal on Sept. 29, the same day that there was a negative article about GM directly above the ad. The same thing happened to Hewlett-Packard earlier this month. Ives wrote, “Advertisers are finding that the front-page ads […]