New business editor at Ann Arbor News

Mary Morgan, 45, who had been business editor at The News since 2000, was named opinion editor at the paper. Morgan joins Victor Schaffner, the paper’s editorial page editor, Petykiewicz and Laurel Champion, publisher, as members of the paper’s editorial board. The group forms editorial positions for The News. Mary McDonough, 33, an assistant metro […]

Darts beat readers in WSJ stock picking — but who cares?

I’ve seen plenty of business newspapers and business sections run stock-picking contests where they ask professional analysts or money managers to pick stocks and then gauge the performance against average every-day people or random selections. But I’m beginning to wonder whether these stories provide any sort of service to readers of business and financial news. […]

Follow-up to the Sago mine disaster

Ken Ward Jr., of the Charleston (WV) Gazette had an excellent article last week examining the business ramifications of the mining disaster at Sago and how regulation of the industry has been lax. Here is an excerpt from his story: “Over the past 30 years, the number of teams taking part in the once-popular national […]

Tomorrow’s business sections are typically some of the smallest of the year. With the market closed today, there’s not a lot going on. Some newspapers have put announcements in today’s paper stating that business news will be found in the back of the sports or metro sections on Tuesdays. Few business reporters probably worked today […]

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That’s the question that Jon Friedman, who writes the media column for MarketWatch, is asking. Michael Eisner, the former CEO of the Disney Co., now has a show on CNBC, the business news network. Writes Friedman: “I know that CNBC, a General Electric unit, is desperate to woo viewers to primetime — or any time […]

The joys of being a business reporter

Got to love this small item in the Albany Times-Union this morning that begins with the headline “Realizing the synergy,” that reads: “One of the joys of being a business reporter is translating the industry jargon into English. “A recent local software company that describes itself as ‘a leading provider of fulfillment and integration solutions […]

NYT biz section view of the world

TheDeal.com is a web site that many business journalists look at for information about mergers and acquisition news. But it also has a regular feature called Media Maneuvers, and on Friday it critiqued a New York Times’ business section profile of Michael Kopper, the former Enron executive who was the first to plead guilty in […]

Spin on hiring a news editor for WSJ online

In the wake of the shakeup in the Dow Jones corporate boardroom, Wall Street Journal Online is looking for a new news editor. Here is how one blogger characterized it: “First the management shakeup, now a call for new blood: experienced but deferential to a fault, and able to squeeze more out of cheaper, greener […]

Apple coverage gone soft?

The topic of whether the coverage of Apple Computers being too soft is not a new one. But Arik Hesseldahl, a writer for BusinessWeek Online, is assessing it again in this piece posted this morning. Hesseldahl notes that on Tuesday, AP issued a one sentence NewsAlert about Apple beginning to ship computers with Intel chips […]

A rite of passage at most business sections — and writers

Andrew Cassel, who writes about the economy for the Philadelphia Inquirer, sums up what probably happened on a lot of business desks earlier this week: “We used to have a kind of ritual in the newsroom: Whenever the Dow Jones industrial average hit some number that ended in three zeros, a top editor would emerge […]