BusinessWeek undergoing redesign
The New York Post’s Keith Kelly writes Wednesday that BusinessWeek is working on a redesign of the magazine. He speculates that it’s in response to the upcoming introduction of competitor Conde Nast Portfolio. Kelly wrote, “Steve Adler, the editor-in-chief of Business Week since April 2005, has hired Modernista, a Boston-based advertising and design firm, which […]
A PR person's perspective about business journalism
Hope Heyman has more than 25 years experience in corporate communications and public relations, specializing in media relations. She serves as the chief media strategist for a number of financial, corporate and health services companies as the senior vice president in Edelman’s New York Office. Before entering public relations, Hope was a reporter and writer […]
Biz journalism program created in China
The International Center for Journalists and Tsinghua University in Beijing will launch China’s first Global Business Journalism Program in September 2007. The initiative includes a two-year master’s degree program and workshops for professional journalists from around the country. The program will train students how to cover the fast-changing world of global business, economics and finance […]
Biz magazines ad sales sluggish in January
Advertising sales for business magazines in January continued to be sluggish, with many of the major publications falling, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America. This comes off a 2006 in which the revenue for the 14 biz glossies was down slightly and pages were off as well, Ad sales for the Economist, […]
Murdoch: CNBC antagonistic toward business; Fox will be friendly
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, speaking Thursday at the Media Summitt in New York hosted by BusinessWeek, accused business news cable channel CNBC of being unfriendly toward business and added that his Fox Business News network, slated to appear later this year, would take an opposite tack. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, writing for Multichannel News, wrote, “‘We […]
Online biz journalism: You get what you pay for
Bryan Corliss, who is spending the 2006-07 year as a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University, attended a panel at Bloomberg News on Monday that discussed the future of business journalism online and posted about it on his blog. Corliss wrote, “When it comes to online business news, you’ll get what you pay for, members of […]
Mariagate is now being satirized
Ad Age’s Simon Dumenco has his own take on the controversry surrounding CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, and it includes him now adhering to a new set of ethical standards. Dumenco wrote, “Effective immediately, I’ve decided to adhere to higher-than-ever ethical standards. To wit: My travel policy “Henceforth, I will only accept rides on corporate jets […]
Grumpy Editor: What happened to photo captions in BusinessWeek?
The Grumpy Editor blog wants to know why publications, particularly BusinessWeek, have decided that they don’t need to publish captions below their photos to help readers understand what’s been shown. Grumpy Editor wrote, “But BusinessWeek, in its Feb. 5 issue, sports a number of images without appropriate information, sort of like Aunt Abby’s thick picture […]
Weiss: I don't see the problem with Bartiromo's flight
Forbes.com columnist Gary Weiss thinks that the controversy surrounding CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo taking a plane trip with a Citigroup exec on its corporate jet is way overblown. Weiss wrote, “Maria may be, well….. a bit too close to one of the companies she covers. That, however, is hardly a hanging offense in journalism and […]
Fuchs likes BusinessWeek piece on GM
TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs, who admits that he rarely finds a business journalism article that makes him smile, is all gushy about David Welch’s piece about automaker General Motors in the most-recent BusinessWeek. Fuchs wrote, “Taking the form of an open note to General Mayhem — er, Motors — Business Week says size doesn’t matter. Let […]
