Stop the CEO porn about Buffett
Gary Weiss writes for TheStreet.com about how the business news media is too fawning in its coverage of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Weiss writes, “Welcome to CEO porn season, Berkshire Hathaway edition. ‘CEO porn’ is inside-baseball journalism terminology that I would define as ‘overemphasis on the (ghost-written) writings and overhyped achievements of chief executive […]
New media formats and long-form journalism
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer of Forbes, writes about how his journalists are using new media strategies to boost their audience for long-form articles. Dvorkin writes, “Recent events lead me to Kashmir Hill, who has truly found her digital rhythm and is working to find her long-form journalism voice. “Kashmir covers digital privacy issues, […]
Financial Writer’s Stylebook to be renamed and affiliate with SABEW
The Financial Writer’s Stylebook is now The SABEW Stylebook, and members of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers can get the guide at a 20 percent discount. In addition, 10 percent of the revenue goes to SABEW. Marion Street Press, the book’s publisher, and SABEW agreed to the deal, which also includes free […]
Adjusting to life as a TV business journalist
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Kayla Tausche joined CNBC in January 2011 as a general assignment reporter covering corporate finance and deals for CNBC’s Business Day programming. In 2011, Tausche covered a wide range of stories for the network including the Occupy Wall Street movement, the News Corp phone hacking scandal and the bankruptcy of MF […]
Being a daily newspaper biz editor in the 21st century
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Becky Bisbee is the business editor of the Seattle Times, a position she has held since August 2000. Before that, Bisbee was business editor of the Austin American-Statesman in Texas for five years. She began her business journalism career at the Modesto Bee in 1984 and rose to become its business […]
Why the graphic novel will save business journalism
Aziz Ali of PSFK.com interviews Caleb Melby, the Forbes employee who took on the responsibility of writing “The Zen of Steve Jobs,” a graphic novel that the business magazine just published. Here is an excerpt: How does the creation of this graphic novel reflect on the Forbes brand? People understand that Forbes has a history […]
On being a kick ass business journalist
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE David Evans is an investigative business journalist who writes for Bloomberg Markets. A graduate of the University of Southern California Law Center, he spent five years prosecuting fraud for the U.S. government as a trial attorney for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission before joining Bloomberg in 1992. He joined the magazine’s […]
The reasoning behind Bloomberg’s sustainability coverage
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Eric Roston is a journalist who oversees Bloomberg News new initiative in covering sustainability-related issues. Roston peviously wrote The Climate Post, a popular weekly climate-and-energy news analysis at ClimatePost.net, and was affiliated with the the Washington, DC office of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. Previously, Roston wrote for […]
The heady rush of covering retail during the holiday season
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Maria Halkias has covered retail since 1993 in the business section at The Dallas Morning News. She joined The News in 1983 and prior beats were the Texas economy and the oil and gas business. She’s a native of Gary, Ind., and a graduate of Valparaiso University. Her first newspaper job […]
Surviving the business reporter Olympics
Allison Miles, a business reporter for the Victoria Advocate in Texas, writes Friday about what it’s like to cover Black Friday. Miles writes, “Comfortable shoes are a must, for instance, while dressing in layers means you can keep cozy when outside, and shed some off when you reach the warm indoors. “One should always keep […]
