NYT expands Dealbook coverage
The New York Times is expanding its DealBook blog with more news, information, analysis and features to create a more authoritative source for deal-makers and industries that thrive and function within the deal community. The new expanded edition of DealBook will launch on Tuesday, Nov. 9, across multiple platforms. DealBook caters to a high-level audience […]
Salmon to blog about fiscal, economic coverage for CJR
Well-known Reuters financial blogger Felix Salmon has been named the Columbia Journalism Review‘s Peterson Fellow, which means he will be writing on the media’s coverage of fiscal and economic matters. Dean Starkman, who oversees the Review’s coverage of business and economics journalism, writes, “Funded by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Peterson Fellowship was created […]
Talking with Felix Salmon of Reuters
Benzinga.com interviewed prolific Reuters blogger Felix Salmon about his job. Here is an excerpt: Could you start off by telling us a little bit about yourself and your role at Reuters? I’m a finance blogger, I’ve been doing this for four years now. I link to interesting stuff on the web and add my .02 […]
How the NYT's Dealbook missed a golden opportunity
Felix Salmon of Reuters writes Tuesday about how the New York Times’ Dealbook blog missed a story about Hewlett-Packard’s criticism of one of its business columnists, Joe Nocera, allowing its competition to beat them to the punch. Salmon writes, “A nice little scoop fell into Dealbook’s lap yesterday, when Ray Lane, the incoming chairman of […]
Reuters to put economic debate online
Reuters will host a two-part, live economic debate on its Web site and on YouTube on Tuesday, and two commentators will also be live blogging their thoughts. The event is apparently the first of its kind in business journalism. The debate, which will be held at 8 a.m., will be between Laura Tyson, a candidate […]
Assessing Dealbreaker and the New York Observer
CNBC.com’s John Carney, who ran Dealbreaker.com from 2006 to 2008, looks at how the deal to sell the business news and gossip site to the New York Observer is being held up because current editor Bess Levin is not signed to a long-term deal. Carney writes, “I don’t think Bess has any actual equity in […]
Calacanis planning new tech news site
Jemima Kiss from The Guardian reports that Jason Calacanis is starting a new tech news site called Launch. Kiss writes, “TechCrunch is arguably too dominant in the tech startup space, entrepreneurs will admit in private; not the fault of TechCrunch but of its rivals. The direction of tech coverage over the past few years has […]
NY Observer close to buying biz site Dealbreaker.com
Nicholas Carlson of Business Insider reports that The New York Observer is close to announcing a deal to acquire the business news and gossip site Dealbreaker.com. Carlson writes, “But another source, one close to the higher-ups at the Observer, cautions that the deal is ‘not final yet.’ “Why? “Bess Levin wants to get paid. “Bess […]
From copy machines to top business journalist
Alex Schiff of Benzinga interviewed New York Times financial reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin, who writes a weekly column and also oversees its popular Dealbook blog. Here is an excerpt: Now it’s no hiding the fact that you’re one of the youngest people around cited as an authority on Wall Street, economics, etc and that’s in […]
TechCrunch deal valued at $30 million
Jennifer Saba of Reuters is reporting that the TechCrunch tech news site is being sold to AOL for an estimated $30 million. Saba reports, “Armstrong said that Arrington has a multi-year agreement with AOL. He also said Arrington will continue to run TechCrunch and that AOL will give it more resources. “AOL and TechCrunch announced […]
