Wall Street Journal to start accepting front-page ads
Last month, the New York Times announced that it would begin accepting paid ads for the front page of its business section. Today, the Wall Street Journal took the concept a step further and announced it would start accepting ads on the front page of the paper beginning later this year. In a release, Journal […]
NY Post biz reporter Sanders talks about her beat
Holly Sanders, who covers advertising and marketing for the New York Post and previously worked at Bloomberg News, talked with PR Week about her beat and working at the paper in a Q&A posted on Monday. Here is an excerpt: PRWeek: Do all the reporters at the Post have an inherently punchy writing style, or […]
John Deere CEO profile needs rethinking
Marek Fuchs, the Business Press Maven for TheStreet.com, criticizes a recent profile of John Deere CEO Robert Lane in The Wall Street Journal in his Saturday column. Fuchs wrote, “The story was headlined “How John Deere Cut a Clear Path Across a Rough Field” … and the answer was: through Lane’s grace. Here’s a sample […]
Steiger successor at WSJ will be named next spring
The New York Times is reporting that a successor to longtime Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger will be named next spring and that Steiger will step down from his position at the end of 2007. In addition, the Journal said it has created a committee to assess how it delivers news across its […]
Top business publications
In its June 2006 issue, BtoB Media Business described the 25 publications as having “shaped the business publishing industry.” Publications on the list include BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. BtoB Media Business, published by Crain Communications, Inc., picked the “Media Business 100” to reflect […]
Financial Times to merge print, Web operations
Mimicking a decision by The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times is combining its print and Internet operations, which could mean the loss of 50 jobs, according to an Associated Press story. The AP story states, “‘The FT has long been a pioneer in forging an integrated online and print newsroom, with Web-first publishing and […]
CNBC's questioning of NY Times' Pequot story
TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow examined CNBC’s recent grilling of New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia in relation to its stories about the alleged insider trading at Pequot Capital Management. She called it Must-See TV. Kantrow wrote, “Ingrassia’s TV appearance, which was given added drama by the fact that one of his inquisitors, Charles […]
Fourth of July fireworks on the Internet
Weird goings on over at the blog run by financial journalist Gary Weiss, the author of Wall Street vs. America, where Gary and Mark Mitchell, the assistant managing editor of Columbia Journalism Review Daily, have been trying to knock each other down for the past few days and have continued today with several postings about […]
The Wall Street Journal online and links
Former journalist and current journalism instructor Mark Hamilton comments on his “Notes from a Teacher” blog this morning about the Wall Street Journal Online’s practice of providing links to other media sites in its articles. Hamilton writes, “There’s a lot to like about the online Wall Street Journal, not the least of which is its […]
Post: Bartiromo shoots talk show pilot
The New York Post is reporting that CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo has shot a pilot for an afternoon talk show that could take her away from business journalism. The story, which did not have a byline, stated, “It is believed that the yet-untitled talk show, produced by NBC, will focus on ‘women’s empowerment,’ according to […]
