Rochester paper makes changes to business section
Steve Sink, the business editor of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, writes Sunday about changes being made to the paper’s business coverage. Sink writes, “To shine a light on these entrepreneurs, we’re beginning a weekly series, Our New Economy, that will run for several Sundays. We’ll follow that with a series on … well, we […]
Four business journalists on NYObserver's "insurgents" of 2010
The New York Observer has a list of the 53 “insurgents” who will help remake the city in 2010, and four of them are business journalists. They are: Bess Levin, editor of the blog Dealbreaker.com; Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone; Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times; Josh Tyrangiel, the new editor of BusinessWeek. […]
Salmon on blogging vs. long-form journalism
Damien Hoffman of Wall St. Cheat Sheet interviewed prolific Reuters blogger Felix Salmon about whether long-form financial journalism has a place in today’s world of bloggers. Here is an excerpt: Damien Hoffman: Where do you see a place for long form journalism within the context of blogging? Felix: I think blogs are a wonderful way […]
NYT names new tech blogger
The New York Times appointed Nick Bilton, who has worked at the paper for six years but never as a writer, as its new lead tech blogger for its Bits blog. Bilton has been an art director for the business section and worked in tech jobs at the paper. Bilton writes, “I hope to apply […]
BusinessWeek staffers say goodbye
A number of BusinessWeek staff members who were let go as part of the magazine’s acquisition by Bloomberg LP took to the blogosphere on Tuesday to say goodbye to readers. Senior writer Steve Baker wrote, “My career at BusinessWeek, which wraps up tomorrow, was an education. I’d start ignorant, and then learn on the job […]
Denver Biz Journal begins blogging
Mark Harden, the new media editor at the Denver Business Journal, writes about the weekly business newspaper’s decision to begin blogging. Harden writes, “The DBJ came to blogging carefully and cautiously. We didn’t want to divert our staff from working on the kind of insightful business news coverage that you’ve come to expect from us, […]
The future BusinessWeek will look like….
Former BusinessWeek staff member Gary Weiss blogs Friday about what the magazine will look like once its sale to Bloomberg is complete, in the wake of the layoffs at the publication in the last two days. Weiss writes, “It’s not even clear to what extent the new BW will have its own writing staff. Higher-level […]
Blodget responds to Salmon slam
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon wonders why Business Insider CEO and blogger Henry Blodget is allowed to pontificate as a business journalist after being barred from the securities industry, and Blodget has responded. Blodget writes, “Felix is not just annoyed by my disclosure. He is also irritated on behalf of journalists everywhere who have been downsized […]
LA Times real estate blog folds
Jonathan Lansner, the real estate columnist and blogger at the Orange County Register, points out that the Los Angeles Times has folded its real estate blog, LA Land, into another blog. Lansner writes, “It’s a victim,so to speak, of a consolidation strategy where most business content will appear in one giant financial blog. LA Land’s […]
Liveblogging GM's earnings conference call doesn't work
Matthew DeBord of The Big Money doesn’t find much to intrigue him about Micheline Maynard of The New York Times liveblogging the GM earnings conference call. DeBord writes, “I don’t much see the point in live-blogging events if your goal is simply to tell people what’s happening, rather than why or what it means. The […]
