Dow Jones to sell out in 2006?
That’s the prediction of Peter Newcomb at Forbes, who writes today that he thinks that the Bancroft family, which controls the majority of stock in the company, will sell Dow Jones, including the Wall Street Journal. Read the entire posting online here. Here is his prediction: “The Bold Prediction The Bancroft clan finally throws in […]
MarketWatch losing readers?
Business 2.0 has a nice update on the Dow Jones acquisition of the CBS Marketwatch web site, which occurred almost a year ago. Seems that the site has lost a lot of viewers and that Dow Jones, which does not have a good history when it comes to acquisitions, may have overpaid. To read the […]
Contradictory stories
Very rarely in business journalism do you see an instance of one prominent media outlet reporting on a business story and then another prominent media outlet reporting on the same story but essentially saying that the other media outlet got it wrong. But that’s the case with the coverage of money manager Private Capital Management’s […]
LA Times and Chicago Trib considering cutting stock listings
The story was in the Wall Street Journal this morning. You can read it here. This does not surprise me. Many newspapers have cut their stock listings in the past few years, and some papers only run the stocks that are widely held in their area. But the big metropolitan papers have always run a […]
The country's best economics reporters
As David Warsh, editor of economicprincipals.com, so eloquently puts it, “It may not be a golden age of economic journalism. The traditional means of support — advertising — has been too undependable for that, thanks to a cataract of technological change. But there are plenty of new rafts on the river. There’s even reason to […]
Good list of blogs for business journalists
The Wall Street Journal published a list this morning of the best blogs that its reporters use when chasing down stories or in finding information on their beat. The list can be found here. If you cover one of the industries discussed in one of these blogs, then it’s probably worth your while to check […]
Investigative business reporting
Chip Scanlan, the writing coach at the Poynter Institute, recently conducted an interview with investigations editor Mark Maremont of the Wall Street Journal about a front-page story he wrote on CEOs using corporate jets to go play golf in far-flung locations. It can be found here. If you’re interested in executive compensation or how the […]
San Jose Mercury News blog celebrates anniversary
Silicon Beat, the business news blog at the San Jose Mercury News, celebrated its one-year anniversary on Friday. As near as I can tell, it’s the oldest business news blog out there. The two writers, Matt Marshall and Mike Bazeley, had a nice commentary on the anniversary, asking for advice on how they can make […]
Bloomberg for sale?
The rumors that business data information and news wire service company Bloomberg LP is for sale are circulating again. There was a story in the British newspaper The Independent today. In addition, the Wall Street Journal has also written a speculative story about the potential for the company to be sold. Both stories give a […]
WSJ to shrink in size
Dow Jones says it’s going to shrink the flagship newspaper of the chain in size to a traditional newspaper size. Read about it here. My interpretation of this move is that it sounds like the news hole will also be shrinking, so readers won’t be getting as much business news every day as they had […]
