Entries being accepted for Barlett & Steele Awards
Entries Are Now Being Accepted for the Third Annual Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism. Named for the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative business journalist team of Don Barlett and Jim Steele, these awards, funded by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, celebrate the best in print and online investigative business […]
ACBJ chairman: Business journalism has hit bottom
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE American City Business Journals chairman Ray Shaw told business journalists Monday night that he believes that the layoffs and cutbacks in business journalism have hit bottom and that the industry will begin to rebound by the end of the year. Shaw noted that his company, which owns and operates 40 weekly […]
SABEW elects new board members
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The Society of American Business Editors and Writers elected six new board members and one returning board member at its meeting Monday. Newly elected board members are Los Angeles Times assistant business editor Sharon Bernstein, McClatchy Newspapers national economics correspondent Kevin Hall, New Orleans Times-Picayune business editor Kim Quillen, Reuters reporter Walden […]
Other business magazines will fail
Jon Friedman, the media columnist at Marketwatch, predicts that the closing of business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio on Monday won’t be the last of the biz glossies to shutter. Friedman writes, “The business model no longer can be sustained in a digital age. In a bear market where people prefer to sit on the sidelines, […]
SABEW members vote to move to Arizona State
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Members of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers voted narrowly Monday to move the organization’s headquarters to Arizona State University. The vote was 33, or 53 percent, voting for the move to Arizona State, and 29, or 47 percent, voting against the move, and was held at the SABEW […]
Fox Biz Network to expand online shows
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Ray Hennessey, the editorial director at the Fox Business Network, said Monday that the network plans to expand its online shows to “several hours.” The network currently has a show called “FoxBusiness.com Live.” Hennessey’s disclosure came during a session on online video at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers […]
Portfolio never distinguished itself from the biz mag competition
Yvette Kantrow, executive editor of The Deal, writes Monday that the demise of business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio is primarily due to the fact that it never distinguished itself in a crowded market. Kantrow writes, “Portfolio was strictly a bubble phenomenon, dreamed up at a time when the masses still liked to talk about money […]
New SEC chair Schapiro says she respects work of biz journalists
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE New Securities and Exchange Commission chairwoman Mary Schapiro said Monday that she respects the work of business journalists, but she stopped short of saying her organization would not subpoena business journalists for an investigation. “It’s a very hard question,” said Schapiro at the annual conference of the Society of American Business […]
Portfolio publisher: Lipman changed business journalism
Conde Nast Portfolio publisher William Li defended the magazine’s editor in chief, Joanne Lipman, who has been criticized for her management of the editorial content of the now-defunct magazine, to New York Observer reporter John Koblin. Koblin writes, “‘She changed business journalism,’ he said. ‘Portfolio changed business journalism. The whole idea of writing breathlessly glowing […]
Why Conde Nast Portfolio failed
Jon Fine of BusinessWeek has some ideas as to why business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio didn’t last more than two years. Fine writes, “Conde Nast made a classic mistake of spotting a consumer magazine ‘opportunity’ based on advertising and demographic considerations, not actual reader demand. (And judging from the last few years’ worth of ad […]
