Top 10 business journalism news events of the first six months of 2006
Here is my list, in descending order, of the top 10 events in business journalism in the first half of 2006. It’s been quite an interesting time, so let’s recap: 10. New Fed chief Ben Bernanke talks to CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo at White House Correspondents’ dinner. Bernanke told Bartiromo at the dinner in late April […]
The influential Gene Marcial
BusinessWeek’s Gene Marcial, who writes a weekly column about stocks for the magazine, is profiled in the most recent issue of the Philippine News. Marcial is a Filipino. Christina Pastor writes, “Gene offers different insights on a company that may affect the value of its stocks. It could be new products the company is rolling […]
Lions Gate earnings: Up or down?
Marek Fuchs, The Business Press Maven for TheStreet.com, uncovered one of the ugly incidents in business journalism in the past week: Two wire services reporting a company’s earnings in two completely different ways. I’ll let Fuchs, who in my opinion is quickly rising among business journalism critics, take it from here: “Woe are we. Here […]
KISS vs. MEGO at the Houston Chronicle biz section
Assistant business editor Steve Rassenfoss of the Houston Chronicle has been dealing with comments from readers about how the language used in stories about the oil and engineering industry isn’t technically correct. In reader representative James Campbell’s Sunday column, it boils down to keeping it simple, stupid vs. my eyes glaze over. Rassenfoss tried to […]
Biz editor named for new
Melanie Wold has been named business editor for Shattered, the first global business magazine for and about women that made its debut June 8, according to this story in a Massachusetts newspaper. As recently as January, Wold had been doing PR for Reuters, according to this release. She had been European editor of Trading Technology […]
How to be a good economics reporter
Cal-Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong teamed up with journalism professor Susan Rasky on a quick guide for journalists who talk to economists and want to be in the information — rather than disinformation — business. DeLong and Rasky team taught an economics reporting class this past semester. Among their suggestions, posted on the Nieman Watchdog […]
New searches available on SEC web site
The Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled three new search features on its Web site Monday that should improve the ability of business journalists to search for specific pieces of information in the thousands of corporate filings that get dumped into the SEC web site every day. Here is a rundown of them: 1. A full […]
Business North Carolina cleans up
Business North Carolina won five prizes, including top honors for feature story and headlines, in the 2006 Alliance of Area Business Publications Editorial Excellence Awards. It was named the nation’s third-best regional business magazine for the fourth year in a row. Senior Editor Ed Martin won the gold prize for best magazine feature for his […]
The business reporter's conundrum
I received the following e-mail from a business reporter at a daily newspaper in a metropolitan market in the Eastern U.S. today. He/she is frustrated with his job. I am deleting references to towns and cities to protect him. He/she wrote: “While I love my job, the problem I’ve come up against is that there […]
Where has the labor reporting gone?
The Toronto Star’s Antonia Zerbisias wants to know what has happened to labor reporting, specficially in Canada, in a column, in relation to the recent strike that stranded tens of thousands of commuters in the city. Media columnist Zerbisias wrote, “The media have abandoned labour as an exclusive, and expert, beat. “Because we have no […]
