Jeff Bercovici of DailyFinance.com wonders whether The Wall Street Journal got scooped Friday by the New York Times on the SEC filing charges against Goldman Sachs because of the changes that Rupert Murdoch has made since acquiring the business newspaper.
“Another observer, a former longtime Journal editor, says the paper does lose to the Times more often than it used to, but he dates the change not to Murdoch’s takeover but to the arrival on the scene of Andrew Ross Sorkin, the Times‘s ace mergers-and-acquisitions reporter. ‘It used to be assumed that if there was a story to be broken on M&A, the Journal had it,’ says the editor. ‘The beat got a lot more competitive once Andrew got on it.’
“Asked whether he thinks the Journal is a less formidable rival on the business front these days, Ingrassia, himself a Journal veteran, demurs: ‘There’s a lot of great competition out there. The Journal still does a lot of great work.'”
Read more here.
Justin Nielsen of Investor's Business Daily writes about the newspaper's 40th anniversary. Nielsen writes, "When the…
Clare Fieseler has been hired by Politico and subsidiary E&E News to cover renewable energy,…
Politico transportation reporter Tanya Snyder has left the news organization. Before joining Politico, she was the editor…
Eric Wallerstein, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal's finance bureau in New York,…
Washington Post Business Editor Lori Montgomery: We’re delighted to announce that Sandhya Somashekhar, an insightful…
CoinDesk markets reporter Lyllah Ledesma is leaving the news organization after four years for a new opportunity.…