The 20 best financial blogs

Michael B. Sauter, Ashley C. Allen and Douglas A. McIntyre of 24/7 Wall St. have picked the 20 best financial blogs on the Web today. Here are some of their picks: 1) Dealbreaker dealbreaker.com. The New York Post of Wall St. media blogs, Dealbreaker provides an insider’s perspective with a wink and a nod. In this  tabloid, you are […]

Treasury going on background is useful

Blogger Felix Salmon of Reuters argues that the Treasury Department briefing held earlier this week with bloggers was helpful to understand their objectives despite the objections of some bloggers that the event was held on background. Salmon writes, “Of course, you can’t put Sperling et al on the record and then have just Geithner being […]

Blog competition making the financial press worse

Joe Weisenthal of The Business Insider writes Monday that the recent gaffes at The New York Times business desk — including problems with Gretchen Morgenson‘s story this weekend about swaps — and The Wall Street Journal‘s hyperbolic hedge fund conspiracy story are the result of them trying to compete with financial blogs. Weisenthal writes, “Now […]

Dealbreaker.com editor Levin playing Goldman Sachs PR person on Twitter

Charles Gasparino of the Fox Business Network believes that it’s Bess Levin, the snarky editor of Dealbreaker.com, who is portraying Goldman Sachs PR person Lucas Van Praag on Twitter. Gasparino writes, “Bess Levin of the DealBreaker blog is one of several people posting tweets under the name Lucasvpraag, including one that takes aim at Matt […]

Tech blogger leaves publication after misrepresenting himself

An InfoWorld blogger, Randall Kennedy,  has left the publication after it was discovered that he had misrepresented himself as an executive for a software company to get interviews, writes Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal. Wingfield reports, “On Sunday, InfoWorld’s editor in chief Eric Knorr published a blog post saying that Kennedy was no […]

Kouwe quits, wonders what happened

John Koblin of the New York Observer had an exclusive interview with former New York Times business reporter Zachary Kouwe, who resigned Tuesday afternoon amid allegations of plagiarizing articles from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and other business media outlets. Koblin writes, “‘I was as surprised as anyone that this was occurring,’ he said, referring […]

Biz news site to short stocks

James Rainey of The Los Angeles Times writes Wednesday about a recently launched site, iBusinessreporting.com, that plans to make money by shorting the stocks it writes negative stories about. The funding for the site is similar to one launched several years ago by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and run by a former St. Louis […]

Morningstar buys Footnoted.org blog

Morningstar Inc. announced Tuesday that it acquired the Footnoted.org blog and the related Footnoted Pro service for an undisclosed price. Footnoted.org, a well-known business journalism blog, was founded in 2003 by business journalist Michelle Leder. Footnoted’s research staff reads hundreds of SEC filings a day to unearth information buried in the fine print, such as […]

OC Register to send real estate news texts

The Orange County Register real estate news team announced Monday that it will begin sending daily news updates to reader’s cell phones by text message. Real estate columnist Jon Lansner writes, “Well, we’ve got one solution for you! The Register real estate news team is now text messaging  a daily alert containing top Orange County […]

Beginning to blog in Peoria

Paul Gordon, the business editor at the Peoria Journal Star in Illinois, writes how he and business reporter Steve Tarter will begin to blog for the newspaper. Gordon writes, “Items that appear in the blog may be newsworthy but don’t quite rise to a full story. Or they may be quick updates on stories we’ve […]