TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Talking Biz News is operating this week from Syracuse University, where it is perusing the papers of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster, a two-time Pulitzer winner.
We’ve run across a curious document in box eight — a clipping from the Charlotte Observer newspaper dated April 19, 1970.
Sloan writes, “During a brief interview, he summed up the business news coverage of most newspapers in one word: “lousy.”
“Royster said he felt that newspapers were victims of a tendency to create an artificial — and harmful — distinction between business news and other news.
“‘I don’t think of business as really being separate from other news,” Royster said.
“It’s part of the basic life of a community — there’s nothing that has more effect on a community than the business situation. These are bread-and-butter matters to every citizen.’
“According to Royster, papers as a rule make a great effort to cover disasters and politics, but fall down when it comes to covering business in their local communities.”
Sloan, of course, is now senior editor at large at Fortune and the winner of more Loeb Awards than any other business journalist. But at the time, he was a struggling sports reporter trying to make the switch to business news.
PCWorld executive editor Gordon Mah Ung, a tireless journalist we once described as a founding father…
CNBC senior vice president Dan Colarusso sent out the following on Monday: Before this year comes to…
Business Insider editor in chief Jamie Heller sent out the following on Monday: I'm excited to share…
Former CoinDesk editorial staffer Michael McSweeney writes about the recent happenings at the cryptocurrency news site, where…
Manas Pratap Singh, finance editor for LinkedIn News Europe, has left for a new opportunity…
Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following on Friday: Dear All, Over the last…