Dow Jones gets almost half of revenue from digital publications
Dow Jones & Co. CEO Les Hinton told a Japanese crowd on Monday that the company gets nearly half its revenue from digital publications because progress in media technology is continuing despite a global recession. Takashi Kitazume of the Japan Times writes, “‘New products come to market faster than ever, and the WSJ’s new iPad […]
Investment firms whine about coverage
Barry Ritholtz, who writes the Big Picture blog, has had enough of investment firms complaining about their coverage in the business news media. Ritholtz writes, “Over the weekend, we noted that, according to a recent poll, Goldman Sach’s reputation is worse than even BP’s. Following that, I caught the tail end of a radio interview […]
King, Montreal Gazette biz reporter, dies at 51
Mike King, a business reporter at the Montreal Gazette, died Sunday at the age of 51 after suffering a brain aneurysm on Friday. Monique Muise of the Gazette writes, “He was known as a jack-of-all-trades; a flexible and prolific newsman who could pick up an idea and produce a clean, well-researched story every single day […]
Augusta paper dropping Monday biz tabloid
The Augusta Chronicle is discontinuing its three-year-old Monday business news tabloid called “Your Business” and putting the content back into its Sunday and Monday newspaper. Business editor Tim Rausch writes, “Why end three years of Your Business as we know it? The business tab always had a limited circulation in Richmond and Columbia counties. Though […]
BP controlling the message
New York Times media columnist David Carr writes for Monday’s paper about how oil company British Petroleum continues to control the information disseminated to the media about its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Carr writes, “So what amount of oil was coming out of that hole in the first place? We will […]
Fox Biz responds to Bill Press comment in article
Brian Stelter of the New York Times writes for Monday’s paper about how Fox Business Network now has two shows with a Libertarian bent, including a new one that started Saturday featuring Judge Andrew Napolitano, and quotes liberal commentator Bill Press as saying that the moves are designed to make Fox Business “a second propaganda […]
Nevada-Reno still looking for biz journalism professor
The University of Nevada-Reno says that its search to find a Donald W. Reynolds professor of business journalism remains open. The person would replace Dave Morrow, the former editor at TheStreet.com who died earlier this year of cancer. The job posting says, “Our ideal candidate will combine broad experience in business coverage with an interest […]
WSJ vets running the show at NYTimes
Dean Rotbart of NewsBios and TJFR fame points out that three of the top editors at the New York Times are former journalists at The Wall Street Journal, which is now trying to take away some of the Times’ readers. Rotbart writes, “The latest WSJ ‘defector’ to take the reins at the Times is Lawrence […]
FBI seeks documents from Gawker about story on iPad leak
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has asked Gawker Media to retain all the documents it has on a story its Valleywag site posted earlier this week about a security leak on iPads through AT&T that exposed personal information for thousands of users. Shira Ovide of The Wall Street Journal reports, “The post from Wednesday has […]
Kouwe loses second job
Zachery Kouwe, the New York Times business reporter who resigned after being accused of plagiarism, has been let go from a freelance business reporting job at Dealbreaker.com. Felix Salmon writes, “I spoke to Matt Creamer, the executive editor of Breaking Media, Dealbreaker’s parent. He sent me this statement: Zachery Kouwe was a freelance contributor on […]
