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 […]
NYTimes to expand Dealbook operations
The New York Times plans to hire up to 12 additional staffers for its popular Dealbook blog run by business journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, writes Russell Adams of The Wall Street Journal. Adams writes, “The people said New York Times Co. management has approved the addition of about a dozen people to the existing staff […]
BailoutSleuth.com expands reporting staff
BailoutSleuth.com, a nonprofit investigative journalism site funded by entrepreneur Mark Cuban, has expanded its reporting staff to keep closer tabs on TARP and financial regulators, and to dig more deeply into the causes and effects of the crisis. In addition to editor Chris Carey, BailoutSleuth’s team now comprises three full-time writers and a consultant. The […]
FT begins putting blogs behind paywall
Felix Salmon of Reuters reports that The Financial Times has begun puttings some of its blogs behind a paywall. Salmon writes, “The post has received three comments so far, all of which are from subscribers to the print newspaper who say that they will henceforth no longer read the blog. “The move makes sense in […]
Was iPad breach story ignored by mainstream business media?
Taylor Buley of Forbes reports that the iPad hacking breach via AT&T story broken Wednesday by Ryan Tate at Valleywag was offered first to mainstream business media such as Reuters and the San Francisco Chronicle, but they ignored the story. Buley writes, “According to ‘Weev,’ a well known Internet ‘activist’ who we likened to Shakespeare’s […]
Demand Media to produce online biz news content for San Fran paper
Erik Sherman of BNet is reporting that Demand Media has struck a deal with Hearst Newspapers to produce content for some of its newspapers, including real estate and small business news content for the Web site of the San Francisco Chronicle. Earlier this year, the Chronicle struck a deal with Bloomberg for the wire service […]
Loebs and blogging don't mix
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon, who was a Loeb Award judge this year, argues that the Pulitzer Prizes of business journalism still haven’t figured out blogging, and bloggers still haven’t figured out the Loebs. Salmon writes, “Reuters nominated me for the Online Commentary and Blogging category and I didn’t make the final four. And this is […]
Loebs and blogging don’t mix
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon, who was a Loeb Award judge this year, argues that the Pulitzer Prizes of business journalism still haven’t figured out blogging, and bloggers still haven’t figured out the Loebs. Salmon writes, “Reuters nominated me for the Online Commentary and Blogging category and I didn’t make the final four. And this is […]
BusinessWeek editor: We won't pay writers based on page views
Joe Ciarallo of FishbowlNY interviewed BloombergBusinessWeek editor Josh Tyrangiel, who spoke about his philosophy of how business journalists should be compensated for blogging and using social networks. See more here.
Salmon wins award for statistical reporting
Felix Salmon, a well-known Reuters blogger who writes extensively about financial statistics, has been named the recipient of the 2010 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award of the American Statistical Association. Salmon does quantitative, statistically minded reporting on topics ranging from the costs of counterfeiting to bank fraud to Nigerian spammers The prize’s selection committee picked Salmon “for […]
