Categories: OLD Media Moves

Yahoo, CNBC create new financial news site

Yahoo and CNBC have created Talking Numbers,  a site that combines all available media to explain what’s going on in the markets.

Mike Hogan of Barron’s writes, “It’s a partnership between Yahoo! Finance (finance.yahoo.com) and CNBC television (cnbc.com) of all-day Squawk-a-palooza fame. There’s plenty of good content in a day’s worth of Squawk shows, but it streams by too quickly. Stats, charts, and commentary that pique my interest flash onscreen, then fade into some other story. Video is transitory, and so much other Web content arrives in multiple incompatible formats these days. I like plain text: I can annotate it, think about it, and add to it.

“Talking Numbers tries to find a happy medium. Its videos are usually backed up by articles, and you can choose when, where, and how you consume them. There are plenty of stock charts, and some of the reader commentary is quite good.

“The site’s analysis is integrated, too. Its stated mission is to ‘reach viewers how to harness both technical and fundamental data.'”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

Recent Posts

Kudlow to remain at Fox Business

Fox Business host Larry Kudlow has no plans to leave his role amid reports detailing…

3 hours ago

Wired senior writer Meaker is departing

Morgan Meaker, a senior writer for Wired covering Europe, is leaving the publication after three…

14 hours ago

CNBC’s head of events departing after 28 years

Nick Dunn, who is currently head of CNBC Events as senior vice president and managing…

14 hours ago

WSJ taps Beaudette to oversee business, finance and economy

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Friday: Dear…

23 hours ago

NY Times taps Searcey to cover wealth and power

New York Times metro editor Nestor Ramos sent out the following on Friday: We are delighted to…

1 day ago

The evolution of the WSJ beyond finance

Rahat Kapur of Campaign looks at the evolution The Wall Street Journal. Kapur writes, "The transformation…

2 days ago