Business journalism dropout finds a job and gets back in the racket
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Back in November, Talking Biz News posted an item about Kat Greene, a former business journalist for Dow Jones Newswires, Institutional Investor and the Arizona Republic’s business news desk, who walked away from the career in business journalism she always wanted. The item, which originally was posted on her Facebook page, […]
Wall Street loses appeal in “hot news” suit
A federal appeals court handed a major defeat to Wall Street banks in ruling that a financial news service did not misappropriate their analyst research for its website. Reuters reports, “The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Theflyonthewall.com Inc. did not violate copyright law through the alleged republication of ‘hot news’ and headlines for […]
How the WSJ’s sport section brings in readers
Noah Davis of The Business Insider talked to Wall Street Journal sports editor Sam Walker about the goals of its sports coverage. Davis writes, “The sports page — which started as a section in the Weekend Journal — has its own two-page spread in the daily paper. Walker has an editorial staff of around 20, […]
Tampa Tribune reporter wins top individual NAREE award
Tampa Tribune real estate reporter Shannon Behnken was honored with the National Association of Real Estate Editors annual award for Best Overall Entry by an Individual during its convention this weekend in San Antonio. The judges stated, “This year’s competition is filled with articles about foreclosure processing and some of its dubious practices, but this […]
The war between PR and biz journalists
MG Siegler of TechCrunch has a post about how public relations people, particularly those at Facebook, try to discount stories where the angle is not what they wanted by trying to get other business journalists to write a different story. Siegler writes, “There’s currently something going on in the outskirts of the tech world that’s […]
Utah paper kills business magazine, puts biz content back in paper
Andy Howell, the executive editor of the Ogden Standard-Examiner, writes Saturday about the paper’s decision to shutter its Biz magazine and put its content back into the daily newspaper. Howell writes, “It worked out pretty well as far as general acceptance. Many in the business community liked the content of the magazine. However, Biz didn’t […]
Wisconsin paper updates Sunday biz coverage
Mark Treinen, the executive editor of the Wausau Daily Herald in Wisconsin, writes Saturday about improvements to the paper’s business news coverage. Treinen writes, “But if you pick up a copy of Sunday’s paper, you’ll see that we’ve added new features to what are now called our Central Wisconsin Business pages in the B section. […]
Farber returns as CNET.com editor
Dan Farber, who was editor of technology news site CNET.com in 2008 and 2009, has returned to the top spot after a stint as editor of CBSNews.com, reports Peter Kafka of AllThingsD. Kafka writes, “CNET editor-in-chief Scott Ard will stay on at the company, but will focus on CNET’s reviews, which he had overseen prior […]
The Daily hires Lowry as business editor
The Daily, the News Corp. daily newspaper available only on tablets, has hired longtime business journalist Tom Lowry to be its business editor. Lowry resigned earlier today from Variety, where he worked in its New York office. He previously worked for BusinessWeek magazine. Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post writes, “Daily editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo announced […]
Personal finance site Bankrate.com goes public, shares rise
Bankrate.com, a personal finance website that has three dozen business journalists working for it, went public on Friday, but its shares fell in initial trading. Its shares were trading at $14.74 as of 1:30 p.m. EST, down from its offering price of $15. UPDATE: Bankrate, which began as a newsletter in 1976, saw its shares […]
