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 […]
The most embarrassing thing in business journalism
Some may argue the point, but to me the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to a business reporter is to get beat on a story. It’s even more embarrassing when you get beat on a story that involves reading an SEC filing of a company. Add to the fact that it’s The Wall […]
Advertising up at WSJ, down at Barron's
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, reported mixed advertising results for the business publications in May. Advertising revenue at The Journal, including the new Weekend Edition, increased 10.1 percent in May on a 12.6 percent increase in advertising volume. Advertising yield increased modestly in display categories but was […]
Conde Nast biz magazine won't be writing about parent
Conde Nast Portfolio editor Joanne Lipman likely won’t be overseeing any stories in the magazine about the parent company or the Newhouse family, she told the Media Industry Newsletter. That’s unlike Fortune, which has regularly skewered parent company AOL Time Warner. From MIN: “I love the challenge of creating a new product,” she says. “Yes, […]
Behind the FinancialWeek launch
William T. Bisson Jr., is group publisher of financial media at Crain Communications, which oversees Pensions & Investments, InvestmentNews and P & I Daily and serves as vice president of Crain Communications. Crain also publishes business newspapers in Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, New York and in Mexico as well as industry publications such as Business Insurance. […]
Gomes to write new WSJ column called Talking Tech
The Wall Street Journal will introduce “Talking Tech,” a new weekly question-and-answer column with technologyleaders who will discuss their products and views on trends, beginning Tuesday. The column will be authored by the Journal’s San Francisco-based technology columnist Lee Gomes. “Talking Tech” will run every Tuesday in the Journal’s Marketplace section, on a page featuring […]
IBM pulls ads from BusinessWeek
International Business Machines has decided to discontinue advertising in BusinessWeek magazine, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, although the pullout has nothing to do with a negative article in the glossy. Reporter Brian Sternberg wrote, “IBM has been one of BusinessWeek’s top advertisers in recent years, according to TNS Media Intelligence, […]
Strassel named WSJ columnist
Kimberley A. Strassel, a member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, has been named the paper’s new Washington columnist, writes the New York Times’ Katherine Seelye. Strassel, 33, will be resuming the weekly Potomac Watch column, which has been in hiatus for the last five years. It ceased when Paul A. Gigot, who wrote […]
Ad Age reports WSJ is working on new print version
Advertising Age is reporting that Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz is working on a new version of the print edition of the paper. Ad Age reporter Nat Ives writes, “Their plans are still evolving — 20 focus groups have been conducted, and another 60 are scheduled to take place once the next Journal prototype […]
Kudos to biz reporters on options backdating coverage
John R. Austin, an organizational behavior professor at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, lauds the recent coverage in the financial press regarding the options backdating scandal, as well as the academics who helped uncover this issue, on his “Monty’s Bluff” blog. And he offers a suggestion on where the reporting should go next. Austin […]
