Categories: OLD Media Moves

Bartiromo? Winner. Gasparino? Loser.

Hamilton Nolan of Gawker presents Wednesday his winners and losers in the business media during the economic crisis.

Nolan ranks them on a 10-point scale and says that his scores are “are based on how much the media person or outlet has benefited from the crisis, how right they’ve been, and how much influence they’ve had.”

Here are some winners:

  • Robert Thomson, WSJ: Thomson led the WSJ’s recent redesign and re-imagination—which proved perfect for the big, scary headlines necessary over the last month. [9]
  • Joe Nocera, NYT, and Bethany McLean, Fortune: Scored roughly a million-dollar deal to write the “definitive” book about the crisis. These two are certainly qualified to do it, but still—lucky bastards. [9]
  • Maria Bartiromo, CNBC: The Money Honey is still the public face of CNBC, which owned this crisis top to bottom. [8]
  • And some losers:

  • Fox Business Network: Yes, the little network finally got a measurable audience because of the crisis, and yes, they go to throw some decent shots at Jim Cramer. But the comparison to CNBC just makes them look bad. [4]
  • Charlie Gasparino, CNBC: Got a lot of airtime as a talking head, which is good for him. Was working on a book about reckless leaders at Wall Street firms like Bear Stearns before Bear Stearns collapsed, which could mean a lot of pain in the ass rewriting. Comes off as a bit of wingnut by trying to pin the whole meltdown on Obama. [4]
  • Read the entire list here.

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