Shakeup imminent at CNBC?
TV Newser is reporting that Glen Rochkind, the vice president of business news at cable business news network CNBC, is apparently heading for the door. Rochkind had been in his position since May 2005. TV Newser wrote, “According to a tipster, ‘a shakeup in the upper managerial ranks of CNBC Business News could occur as […]
Weiss wonders: Is BusinessWeek becoming hard-nosed?
Investigative business reporter Gary Weiss, himself a former BusinessWeek journalist, notes that this week’s cover of the magazine is a departure from recent its recent soft news bent. Weiss wrote, “Business Week today has a kick-rump cover story, by my ex-cellmate Mara Der Hovanesian, on a particularly nasty species of mortgage that is afflicting homeowners. […]
New head of BusinessWeek Online
BusinessWeek announced Wednesday the appointment of Roger W. Neal as senior vice president and general manager of BusinessWeek Online. In his new role, he will be responsible for growing revenue, traffic, and visibility for BusinessWeek Online as it builds its position as a site for business content on the Web. Before joining BusinessWeek, Neal was […]
BusinessWeek writer covers friend for magazine
Valleywag, a blog about the Silicon Valley community in California, has posted a photo featuring a BusinessWeek reporter, Sarah Lacy, with her arm around Yelp co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman. The question the site poses is whether Lacy wrote a story about the company recently in the magazine that is run by a friend. Valleywag wrote, “Sure, […]
BusinessWeek exec moves to CNNMoney.com
Howard Manus has joined CNNMoney.com as vice president of marketing and operations, based in New York. Manus will be primarily responsible for overseeing sales development and ad operations, including trafficking, campaign- and inventory-management. “Howard has a very deep print and online sales, marketing and operations background. We’re thrilled to have someone of Howard’s caliber and […]
July: A great month for business magazines
For those of you who have been paying attention, you’ll remember that Talking Biz News wrote about a month ago about how many of the business magazines — including BusinessWeek, Business 2.0 and Money — had incredibly an incredibly bad June in terms of ad sales, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America. […]
Update on last week's BW cover
Red Herring has followed up with the main characters involved in last week’s BusinessWeek cover that caused so much consternation among business reporters and bloggers. If you missed it, the cover (see left) stated that Digg.com founder Kevin Rose was worth $60 million. Rose denies the valuation, and also said that BusinessWeek reporter Jessi Hempel […]
Conde Nast Portfolio hires web editor
Conde Nast Portfolio, the new business magazine being started next year to compete against Fortune, Forbes and BusinessWeek, has hired away the director of programming of Yahoo! Finance to run its Web site, which will also launch next year, according to a brief in Women’s Wear Daily. Stephanie Smith wrote, “YahooFinance veteran Chris Jones will […]
Cuban responds to critics of Sharesleuth
I have been waiting for this: Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, responding to critics of the investigative business journalism Web site ShareSleuth.com that he has funded, replied on his Blog Maverick site with a rebuttal, one particularly aimed at former BusinessWeek writer Gary Weiss, author of “Wall Street vs. America.” Earlier this week, Weiss posted on […]
BusinessWeek president retiring
BusinessWeek said that its president, William Kupper is retiring as soon as a replacement is found, according to an Associated Press story. Kupper, 61, will assist in the process to select a new president, which has already begun. He will remain president in the interim. After joining the magazine in 1995 as head of U.S. […]
