Biz journalism: Paying too much attention to inside baseball
Former BusinessWeek reporter Gary Weiss notes that the New York Stock Exchange is going public Wednesday, and is getting some coverage in the financial media. Why? asks Weiss. He writes, “The financial media spends far too much of its limited resources pursuing inside-baseball stuff of little interest to anyone north of Chambers Street. After Dick […]
Covering the next energy crisis
This afternoon, I moderated a panel at the “Covering the Next Energy Crisis” held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On the panel were business reporter Greg Edwards from the Richmond Times Dispatch, AP energy reporter Brad Foss and Bloomberg energy editor Rob Dieterich. Each of them provided good suggestions and comments […]
Missing the boat
Stories in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Editor & Publisher this morning all seem to be missing the boat in the continuing story of the SEC’s action to subpoena business journalists. All three stories are focusing this morning on the fact that the regulatory agency whose business it is to protect investors […]
Phony business journalists?
SEC commissioner Christopher Cox, in an interview with Reuters today about the issues surrounding his agency’s subpoenas of business journalists as part of an investigation, made an interesting comment about how the SEC is working on guidelines to determine how it will use subpoenas in the future in relation to journalists. Reuters reporter Kevin Drawbaugh […]
Update on CNBC show to air in 100 countries
The Financial Times had a recent article examining CNBC’s attempt to run a business news show in 100 countries. It ran in the Los Angeles Times this morning. The Times wrote: “The show, called ‘Global Players With Sabine Christiansen,’ is one of several new formats CNBC is testing to shake off its dry image as […]
Kantrow disses CJR for dissing
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of TheDeal.com and one of the sharpest analyzers of business media coverage, took Columbia Journalism Review to task in her weekly column. Seems the self-appointed media watchdog was too critical of Barron’s recent critical piece on Google for Kantrow’s taste. Kantrow writes: “If stories about the market, or a particular […]
Is Google about to launch Google Finance?
That’s the theory being floated at the Search Engine Journal — yes there is such an online publication. The SEJ reports: “The Google Finance channel or complementary search listings must be highlighting either blog or news stories related to stock ticker symbols. I’m also guessing that Google Finance Groups threads and possibly even Adwords or […]
SEC subpoenas phone records, e-mails of biz reporter
Herb Greenberg, the well-known columnist for Marketwatch.com, reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed his phone records and e-mails in relation to its investigation into Gradient Analytics. “It would be one thing if I were trading stocks or options (I don’t own any or short any — never have since I started writing […]
Germs on the Star Tribune business desk
Minneapolis Star Tribune workplace reporter H. J. Cummins begins a story in this morning’s paper with this information: “Two weeks ago, our business editor got walloped by the flu, and an assigning editor soon joined him on the sick list. Then last week the bug got our deputy business editor, keeping him home for two […]
Media is soft on Wall Street
Former BusinessWeek investigative reporter Gary Weiss believes that many in the business media are too soft on Wall Street, and those that are aggressive get attacked. Weiss writes on his blog: “The media are far too soft on the Street and particularly the bad guys — the ones with their hands in your pocket, whether […]
