Deborah Netburn of the Los Angeles Times writes about “Marketplace,” the public radio show about business, and its unique spin on the current financial crisis.
“Or, it sometimes seems, more irreverent.
“‘Today is the second full working day of the post-bailout era,’ host Ryssdal’s commanding voice told the audience one day last week. ‘Since the rescue package became law last Friday, the Dow Industrials are down about a thousand points, a great headline number — you’ll probably see it someplace tomorrow — but that’s not the real story. . . . ‘
“On Oct. 9, the show led with: ‘We’ve said before that the Dow is not the entire U.S. economy, but as a snapshot? Boy, it is not a pretty picture.'”
Read more here.
Former Business Insider executive editor Rebecca Harrington has been hired by Dynamo to be its…
Bloomberg Television has hired Brenda Kerubo as a desk producer in London. She will be covering Europe's…
In a meeting at CNBC headquarters Thursday afternoon, incoming boss Mark Lazarus presented a bullish…
Ritika Gupta, the BBC's North American business correspondent, was interviewed by Global Woman magazine about…
Rest of World has hired Kinling Lo as a China reporter. Lo was previously a…
Bloomberg News saw strong unique visitor growth to its website in October, passing Fox Business…