WSJ is a beacon compared to Yahoo! and Google Finance
Christine Brendle, the managing director of Wall Street Journal Asia, is not worried that the business newspaper faces increased competition from online finance Web sites such as Yahoo! and Google Finance, launched last week. In an interview in India, Brendle said, “When people get on Google or Yahoo or when they get on the Net, […]
Dow Jones Internet strategy is tepid
The Media Stock Blog, which gives no buy or sell recommendations, has a post from Douglas McIntyre, the former editor and publisher of Financial World magazine, that criticizes Dow Jones and its lackluster attempts at utilizing the Internet to keep its business journalism franchise going. McIntyre writes, “Dow Jones has clearly been caught in the […]
Zurich-St. Pauls Travelers coverage over the top
The Deal.com Executive Editor Yvette Kantrow criticized the coverage in The Wall Street Journal last Friday of talks between property & casualty insurers Zurich and Minnesota-based St. Paul Travelers, noting that the company took the unusual step of issuing a press release earlier this week to say the story was incorrect. Kantrow writes, “To be […]
Coverage of NCAA tournament productivity story is bogus
Jack Shafer of Slate laments the recent coverage that a number of business sections have given to a recent study predicting the billions of dollars in lost productivity from workers watching the NCAA basketball tournament on their computers — or at bars outside of the workplace. Shafer notes, “Such prominent news sources as the Arkansas […]
Why hasn't this story been reported by more media outlets?
I should have known better. After finding stories about executive compensation at Reuters and McGraw-Hill in the past 24 hours on the Internet, I did a quick search to see if any of the other business journalism-related companies had filed a proxy statement. Dow Jones, the parent of the Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, filed […]
Betting on the next editor of The Economist
Apparently a booking agent in London had been taking bets on who would be the next editor of The Economist magazine, but the bookie shut down the business after receiving a large number of bets on a certain internal candidate. The London Times reports, “SOMEONE at The Economist knows something we don’t. Paddy Power, the […]
Who will succeed Steiger at the WSJ?
The New York Post is reporting that the recent newsroom talk is that Paul Ingrassia, who currently runs the Dow Jones newswire operations, is the leading candidate to replace managing editor Paul Steiger when he steps down soon. Steiger turns 65 next year. The move, however, has brought with it some resistance from Steiger, according […]
New editor for FT.com comes from the States
James Montgomery, who had been the Financial Times U.S. news editor, is going to London to become the paper’s online editor, according to an article in Brand Republic this morning. Alex Donohue writes, “Financial Times editor Lionel Barber has made more key appointments, bringing James Montgomery back from the US to be the editor of […]
Thoughts from New York
As mentioned earlier, I took a group of students in my “Business Reporting” class to New York during Spring Break last week and met with people from the business journalism world. Here are some of the things that the students heard and saw that I thought were most important: 1. At BusinessWeek, they met a […]
BusinessWeek changes
I am in New York today with some of my “Business Reporting” students. We visited BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal’s online operations, and the Bear Stearns trading floor. While at BusinessWeek, I learned that longtime chief of correspondents Jim Ellis has a new job. He is now the Ideas and Opinions Editor, which means he […]
