Hearings on short selling

Today’s hearings on short selling should be interesting for business journalists in the wake of recent allegations that some reporters have been in cahoots with hedge funds and others who short stocks to drive down the price of shares. Former BusinessWeek reporter Gary Weiss has a couple of nice postings about the hearings and notes […]

Financial Times, Wall Street Journal held talks?

Owners of the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal held talks last year about combining operations where the FT would have scaled back its operations in the United States and the Journal would have done the same in Europe, according to an article in London’s Daily Mail. Reporter James Ashton wrote, “Under plans that […]

WSJ starts network for office buildings

Dow Jones & Co. is starting a television network using the Wall Street Journal name for office buildings, according to a story on the Advertising Age web site. Reporter Nat Ives wrote, “Dow Jones is kicking off the program with a deal with Trizec Properties (terms were undisclosed) to get screens into office buildings in […]

Bartiromo's business news reading habits

CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo says in an interview with England’s The Independent that she reads The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal and some of the New York papers. She also reads Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg online, as well as the Drudge Report. Here are some more excepts from the Q&A: What is the […]

Seattle columnist Dudley predicted Gates move

Seattle Times technology columnist Brier Dudley predicted Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ move away from the business operations toward his foundation with his first column several months ago, before Gates announced the decision, Times executive editor Mike Fancher noted in his Sunday column. Dudley wrote on April 17: “Nobody is saying that Gates is ready to […]

The issues of business journalism on TV

The challenge of business journalism on television is getting past the visual aspect and focusing on the content, said a former CNBC show host at a business journalism symposium Thursday. “My three years there made it asbsoultely clear to me that for them, serious business journalism was third or fourth on the list,” said Alan […]

Dow Jones wants to decrease reliance on print

Dow Jones & Co., which publishes the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s magazine and a group of local daily newspapers, wants to decrease its dependence on print products to below 50 percent of total revenue from 70 percent now, according to comments made Tuesday at the Newspaper Association of America’s Mid-Year Media Review and published in […]

Dumenco is not a fan of NY Times' Career Couch column

Advertising Age’s Simon Dumenco pokes fun at the New York Times’ business section’s “Career Couch,” a Q&A column for career advice. A particularly lame recent column focused on the topic of co-wowrkers who stink. Not those who do a bad job, but those with body odor. Dumenco wrote, “The column ended with this helpful exchange: […]

Potential successor to Reuters CEO Tom Glocer?

Reuters Group PLC named Devin Wenig as its new chief operating officer, and a Dow Jones Newswire story notes that Wenig is considered the likely successor to current CEO Tom Glocer. Dow Jones reporter Jessica Hodgson wrote, “Wenig, who is seen by some analysts as a likely successor to Glocer in the event of his […]

The ethics of ShareSleuth.com

BusinessWeek Online reporter Marc Hogan takes a hard look at ShareSleuth.com, the new investigative business journalism web site being started by former St. Louis Post-Dispatch business reporter Christopher Carey and being funded by billionaire Mark Cuban. The ethics of the web site, which is not yet up and running but has generated interest this week […]