Monthly Archives: April 2011
Real estate journalists to convene in June in San Antonio
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The National Association of Real Estate Editors‘ 45th Annual Conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas, on June 15 through June 18 and will feature a two-part class on mastering Excel to analyze public data to uncover real estate trends.
Award-winning journalist Mary Shanklin, a past NAREE board member and a writer at the Orlando Sentinel, will lead the Excel training labs. Shanklin has taught computer-assisted reporting at conferences for Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Education Writers Association, among others.
Other professional development sessions will include: how to build a prolific social media presence in 30 minutes a day; how to “make it to the top” of news organizations today; transitioning to a second career as a publicist in either the business or nonprofit arena; and tips for launching a real estate news website.
NAREE board member and San Antonio Express-News Business and Real Estate News Editor Emily Spicer is putting together a panel to look at “Historic Preservation – Profit and Non Profit Motives.”
Sessions on “The Growing Latino Market;” “The Multi Family Boom;” “Property Rights and Wrongs” and ”Green Building Trends” will touch on factors affecting both the urban grind and suburban rings.
The “Excel on Deadline” class is part of a rich agenda of professional development programs to enable journalists, both freelance and staffers, to thrive in today’s news environment. Session pre-registration is required. Please notify Shanklin at MShanklin@orlandosentinel.com and cc to NAREE Executive Director Mary Doyle-Kimball at MADKimba@aol.com.
The Excel on Deadline course is limited to 24 registrants – first come, first served. Upon successful completion of the “Excel on Deadline” course, registered class members will receive a NAREE Certificate of Achievement.
Find out more about the conference here.
New Bloomberg Businessweek app gets personal with users
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T.J. Raphael of Folio writes about how the new Bloomberg Businessweek application allows readers to go behind the scenes of the stories in the business magazine.
Raphael writes, “App users can see behind the scenes videos about the cover story and its artwork every week from editor Josh Tyrangiel and creative director Richard Turley. Individuals can also hear interview podcasts from columnists like Charlie Rose and Tom Keene.
“The print publication has a rate base of about 900,000. According to Oke Okaro, the Global Head of Consumer Mobile Business for the Bloomberg Multimedia Group, 17 percent of subscribers currently have an iPad, which is a target market of about 153,000 potential app readers. The publication declined to say how many times the app, which was launched April 11, has been downloaded so far.
“‘It’s a very important device for us to be on. We started out from the standpoint of let’s bring our magazine to our audience on a device that they increasingly carry,’ says Okaro. ‘One thing we do know, without a doubt, is that it’s been incredibly well received by our readers and the market place.’
“Print subscribers are able to access a full subscription of the Bloomberg Businessweek iPad app for free if they enter their account number, e-mail address or home mailing address when they log on to the app. Individuals can download a free test issue of the magazine or become a subscriber for $2.99 per month.”
Read more here.
Details on Burnett's CNN job
by Chris Roush
CNN confirmed Friday that is has hired CNBC anchor Erin Burnett, who will have her own show on the network. The New York Times broke the story earlier this week.
Tami Luhby of CNNMoney.com reports that she will be an anchor and chief business and economics correspondent.
Luhby writes, “Burnett will anchor a weekday general news program, as well as contribute to CNN’s coverage of national and international breaking news, out of the cable network’s New York headquarters. She starts in June.
“‘Erin is the kind of all-star player that knows how to connect-the-dots and translate events into relevant information for viewers,’ CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton said in a statement.
“At CNBC, Burnett anchored the weekday programs ‘Squawk on the Street’ and ‘Street Signs.’ She covered global business news, reporting from China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Middle East.
“‘I cannot wait to launch our new show: Tackling serious issues and telling great stories,’ said Burnett. ‘The experience I gained at CNBC and NBC News will be invaluable as I expand my focus. I began my journalism career at CNN, so this is like coming home for me.’”
Read more here. Brian Stelter of the Times also has additional coverage here.
Details on Burnett’s CNN job
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CNN confirmed Friday that is has hired CNBC anchor Erin Burnett, who will have her own show on the network. The New York Times broke the story earlier this week.
Tami Luhby of CNNMoney.com reports that she will be an anchor and chief business and economics correspondent.
Luhby writes, “Burnett will anchor a weekday general news program, as well as contribute to CNN’s coverage of national and international breaking news, out of the cable network’s New York headquarters. She starts in June.
“‘Erin is the kind of all-star player that knows how to connect-the-dots and translate events into relevant information for viewers,’ CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton said in a statement.
“At CNBC, Burnett anchored the weekday programs ‘Squawk on the Street’ and ‘Street Signs.’ She covered global business news, reporting from China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Middle East.
“‘I cannot wait to launch our new show: Tackling serious issues and telling great stories,’ said Burnett. ‘The experience I gained at CNBC and NBC News will be invaluable as I expand my focus. I began my journalism career at CNN, so this is like coming home for me.’”
Read more here. Brian Stelter of the Times also has additional coverage here.
Impoco named executive editor at Thomson Reuters Digital
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Reuters editor in chief Steve Adler sent out the following announcement on Friday afternoon:
I am pleased to announce that Jim Impoco has been named executive editor of Thomson Reuters Digital.
Drawing on his award-winning experience as Reuters inaugural enterprise editor, Jim will play an essential role in integrating the company’s online, mobile and digital properties with the wider news operation. He will report directly to Chrystia Freeland and remain based in New York.
Jim, whose reinvention of The New York Times Sunday Business section won acclaim, will apply the same skills to building readership at Reuters.com as well as on new digital platforms.
Jim joined Reuters in September 2009. Previously, he held positions as assistant managing editor at Fortune Magazine, deputy editor of Conde Nast Portfolio, correspondent for the Associated Press based in Tokyo, and Tokyo bureau chief for U.S. News & World Report.
Please join me in congratulating Jim on his new role.
Reuters hired Mike Williams, the Wall Street Journal’s page one editor, to replace Impoco as enterprise editor.
More changes at WSJ
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Elyse Tanouye was named deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal on Friday, replacing Alix Freedman, who earlier in the day was named page one editor.
Also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Tanouye will be charged with the Journal’s efforts to maintain and extend the paper’s reputation for accuracy and fairness. Tanouye has been the Journal’s corporate editor since April 2008. In her new role, she will report to managing editor Robert Thomson.
Tanouye has been at the paper since 1991, starting in Money & Investing and then moving to the health group where she was a reporter and a contributor to the Pulitzer-winning coverage of the AIDS crisis. She became chief of the Health and Science bureau in 2001 and since then has overseen competitive coverage of the huge shifts in the pharmaceutical and health-insurance industries. She also spearheaded the Health Blog and has been involved in several other joint print/online ventures.
In addition, Dennis Berman, currently deputy bureau chief of Money & Investing, will become Corporate Editor, succeeding Tanouye. He will oversee news about companies, management and strategy, technology, media and marketing and the art of business. erman joined the Journal in 2001 and is one of the editors who shared the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for a series on corporate scandals.
Rick Brooks, currently deputy editor of Money & Investing, will become senior deputy editor of the section.
“Dennis is a legendary reporter who will bring energy and deep knowledge to his new role, which is at the very heart of the paper. Rick, a talented and wise editor, will work closely with Francesco Guerrera, our new Editor of Money & Investing,” said Thomson in a statement.
Read more here.
Earlier Friday, Talking Biz News reported on Guerrera’s hiring and the departure of page one editor Mike Williams, who was hired by Reuters to be enterprise editor.
Bloomberg's next new product: Analyst research
by Chris Roush
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Bloomberg LP, which has rolled out a slew of new products in the past 12 months in a bid to maintain its strong growth, is now setting its sites on an analyst research product.
The new division is being called Bloomberg Industries.
Already, some stories are popping up on the Internet quoting analysts from Bloomberg Industries, which is being run out of Princeton, N.J. This Bloomberg story from earlier this month quoted an analyst who covers the auto industry, but it doesn’t include a disclaimer that the analyst works for the same company that produced the news content, a la how stories from BusinessWeek — when it was owned by McGraw-Hill — used to mention that Standard & Poor’s analysts it quoted were also employees of McGraw-Hill.
Bloomberg Industries is currently advertising for analysts to cover industries such as technology, REITS and insurance. In the ad for the insurance analyst, the operation states that the person who his hired for the position “will also identify relevant industry data, work collaboratively with internal departments to determine the scope, data capture process and quality control of new data, and configure meaningful information for display. The analyst will be expected to publish work under his or her name and contribute to research published by the Senior Analyst.”
On Friday, the company formally announced the launch of Bloomberg View, the new opinion section of Bloomberg News, which will begin publishing editorials, columns and op-ed articles in late May. At the beginning of this year, it launched Bloomberg Government, which is a news service to cover the intersection between business and politics. Last year, it rolled out a newsletter operation called Bloomberg Brief.
Other new products include Bloomberg Law and Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
At least one longtime Bloomberg editorial staffer is leaving the news operation to work for Bloomberg Industries.
Bloomberg’s next new product: Analyst research
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TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Bloomberg LP, which has rolled out a slew of new products in the past 12 months in a bid to maintain its strong growth, is now setting its sites on an analyst research product.
The new division is being called Bloomberg Industries.
Already, some stories are popping up on the Internet quoting analysts from Bloomberg Industries, which is being run out of Princeton, N.J. This Bloomberg story from earlier this month quoted an analyst who covers the auto industry, but it doesn’t include a disclaimer that the analyst works for the same company that produced the news content, a la how stories from BusinessWeek — when it was owned by McGraw-Hill — used to mention that Standard & Poor’s analysts it quoted were also employees of McGraw-Hill.
Bloomberg Industries is currently advertising for analysts to cover industries such as technology, REITS and insurance. In the ad for the insurance analyst, the operation states that the person who his hired for the position “will also identify relevant industry data, work collaboratively with internal departments to determine the scope, data capture process and quality control of new data, and configure meaningful information for display. The analyst will be expected to publish work under his or her name and contribute to research published by the Senior Analyst.”
On Friday, the company formally announced the launch of Bloomberg View, the new opinion section of Bloomberg News, which will begin publishing editorials, columns and op-ed articles in late May. At the beginning of this year, it launched Bloomberg Government, which is a news service to cover the intersection between business and politics. Last year, it rolled out a newsletter operation called Bloomberg Brief.
Other new products include Bloomberg Law and Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
At least one longtime Bloomberg editorial staffer is leaving the news operation to work for Bloomberg Industries.
WSJ hires new Money & Investing editor
by Chris Roush
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Francesco Guerrera, the finance editor of the Financial Times, has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to be its new Money & Investing editor, according to two sources with knowledge of the move.
Guerrera will replace Ken Brown, the current editor of the Money & Investing section, who is headed to Asia in June to build up money and investing coverage at the Asian Wall Street Journal. He will report to Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy managing editor and international editor for the Journal.
Guerrera has been responsible for the FT’s financial coverage around the world. Before taking up this position he was the FT’s U.S. business editor and the Asia financial correspondent where he covered Asian mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, private equity and capital markets. Prior to that, he was European Union correspondent based in Brussels, covering competition and the single market.
Before joining the Brussels bureau, Francesco was based at the FT in London. His work there included co-authoring a three-part investigation into “conflict diamonds,” which won the Foreign Correspondents’ Association award.
He has also won awards for his business reporting in Asia and the US, and, most recently, the first prize at the M&A International Awards.
Before the FT, Francesco worked on the business pages of the Independent and, shortly after graduating from City University in London, for the news agency AFX News.
WSJ hires new Money & Investing editor
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TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Francesco Guerrera, the finance editor of the Financial Times, has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to be its new Money & Investing editor, according to two sources with knowledge of the move.
Guerrera will replace Ken Brown, the current editor of the Money & Investing section, who is headed to Asia in June to build up money and investing coverage at the Asian Wall Street Journal. He will report to Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy managing editor and international editor for the Journal.
Guerrera has been responsible for the FT’s financial coverage around the world. Before taking up this position he was the FT’s U.S. business editor and the Asia financial correspondent where he covered Asian mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, private equity and capital markets. Prior to that, he was European Union correspondent based in Brussels, covering competition and the single market.
Before joining the Brussels bureau, Francesco was based at the FT in London. His work there included co-authoring a three-part investigation into “conflict diamonds,” which won the Foreign Correspondents’ Association award.
He has also won awards for his business reporting in Asia and the US, and, most recently, the first prize at the M&A International Awards.
Before the FT, Francesco worked on the business pages of the Independent and, shortly after graduating from City University in London, for the news agency AFX News.
