New SABEW board members elected

Personal finance columnist Susan Tompor of the Detroit Free Press, markets editor John Corrigan of the Los Angeles Times and business editor Steve Keating of the Denver Post were elected to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers board of governors at the SABEW annual meeting on Monday. Keating’s position is a one-year term […]

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal’s BossTalk featured a laudatory Q&A with Xerox Corp. CEO Anne Mulcahy, noting how she had turned around the company. Too bad that on the same day that the Q&A ran that the company reported bad first-quarter earnings that cut more than 5 percent off the company’s stock price, noted […]

Lay blames Wall Street Journal "witch hunt" on

Former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay took the stand earlier this week in his trial, and among the people that he blamed on the energy company’s collapse was the Wall Street Journal reporters, who he accused of conducting a “witch hunt” against the company, according to media reports. New York Times reporter Alexei Barrioneuvo wrote, “‘We […]

Ron Insana, a former CNBC anchor and host of the show “Street Signs” on the business news cable network, is joining the board of directors of a privately held company. MarketWatch reports, “Critical Mention Inc., a privately held media search and monitoring service, will appoint former CNBC anchor Ron Insana to its Board of Directors […]

Q&A with LA Times biz columnist Hiltzik

Michael Hiltzik, who writes the Golden State column for the business section of the Los Angeles Times and also has a business blog, was interviewed by the Online Journalism Review at USC. Hiltzik, who started his blog in October, explained the difference between what he writes in his colum and what appears on his blog: […]

The problem with biz news on Indian TV

Is the same problem that we have here in the States: So many people reporting about business and economic news, particularly on general news channels and the networks, report stories about business but don’t explain what’s going on in a way that the average viewer can understand. Saubhik Chakrabarti, writing in the Financial Press in […]

Success mag will focus on balance between work and personal

Success magazine, the business glossy that is coming back later this year after a five-year hiatus, will focus on helping its readers find the balance between their work lives and the personal lives, according to a Reuters story about its reincarnation. Reuters reporter Ellen Wulfhorst writes, “The magazine plans to run individual success stories and […]

Bloomberg names new Atlanta bureau chief

Steve Matthews has been named the new bureau chief for Bloomberg’s Atlanta office. He succeeds Adam Levy, who left in March to join an Atlanta-based public relations firm. Matthews has been in the bureau for 10 years. He has covered everything from consumer products to Coca-Cola and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Before joining […]

Fortune's John Helyar's rules for biz writing

Someone has posted on a blog Fortune magazine senior writer John Helyar’s six rules for better business writing. Although they aren’t new, I am guessing that some people haven’t seen them. So, here are a couple: 2) Don’t do drive-by shootings. Odds are that the best stories you’ll ever write are based on relationships established […]

Gradient Analytics responds to 60 Minutes piece

Gradient Analytics is the stock research firm that has been under investigation by the SEC and criticism from others because of its research and how that research was shared with some business journalists. Earlier this week, the New York Post and Wall Street Journal reported that the SEC requested the firm’s e-mail and telephone communications […]