WSJ names editor of new real estate section
Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson sent out the following staff announcement on Tuesday: I am delighted to announce that Emily Gitter will be the Editor of the Journal’s new real estate section, which we are launching in the fall. While we are proud to name Emily as the Editor of *$#@%!*&%, the name […]
Reuters parent reports earnings slightly above expectations
Thomson Reuters, the parent company of the Reuters financial news service, reported second-quarter earnings of 54 cents per share, above the 50 cents per share that analysts were expecting, reports Jennifer Saba of Reuters. Saba writes, “It said sales of its flagship Eikon product, which competes against Bloomberg LP, FactSet Research Systems Inc and Interactive […]
Fox Business news release touting ratings win appears on CNBC’s website
A Fox Business Network news release noting that “Lou Dobbs Tonight” beat CNBC‘s “The Kudlow Report” was issued on Monday — and wound up verbatim on the CNBC website. The release, which can be found here, states: FOX Business Network’s (FBN) Lou Dobbs Tonight beat CNBC’s The Kudlow Report in the coveted advertising demo of […]
How social media is changing biz journalism
Rob Grimshaw of the Financial Times writes for The Economist about the growing influence of social media in today’s business journalism. Grimshaw writes, “At the Financial Times, we recognized early on that the continued success of our business depended on our ability to adapt to changing reader habits. Our response to audience fragmentation was to […]
The 10-point plan for fixing TheStreet.com
Joshua Brown of The Reformed Broker writes about his plan to fix TheStreet.com, the financial news site that has hired a new CEO and a new editor in chief earlier this year. Brown writes, “But TheStreet has lost its way. It’s having an identity crisis, a financial crisis and an existential crisis all at once. […]
Bloomberg website remains blocked in China
The Financial Times reports that Bloomberg News‘ website remains blocked in China, one month after it reported on the financial assets of the country’s vice president and leading candidate to become its next president. Simon Rabinovitch of the FT writes, “Although periodic outages of foreign media websites in China are common, the month-long total blackout […]
Test case for the future of independent online business journalism
Keach Hagey of The Wall Street Journal writes for Monday’s paper about business news site Business Insider, founded five years ago by former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget. Hagey writes, “In the past year, the site has boosted its monthly unique visitor count by 32% to 5.4 million in June, estimates comScore, an Internet analytics […]
BusinessWeek was in danger of being closed before it was sold to Bloomberg
Stephen B. Shepard, the former editor in chief of BusinessWeek from 1984 to 2005, has a forthcoming autobiography called “Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path from Print to Digital.” Shepard, who is now dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, spends a good part of the book discussing his time at BusinessWeek as well […]
Social media is part of this real estate reporter’s routine
Regan Pecjak and Paola Soto of U-T San Diego write about how the paper’s real estate reporter, Lily Leung, uses social media to cover her beat. Pecjak and Soto write, “Leung blogs, tweets and uses storify, a web application that allows for the creation of stories from social media resources, just to name a few. […]
The WSJ’s new popout markets widget
Adrienne LaFrance of Nieman Journalism Lab writes about The Wall Street Journal‘s pop-out Markets Data window that puts a real-time markets ticker in the corner of your screen. LaFrance writes, “It’s part of the newspaper’s ongoing ‘WSJ Everywhere’ mantra, and an attempt to keep readers connected with the Journal in an ever-fracturing and narrowing media […]
