Dumenco is not a fan of NY Times' Career Couch column
Advertising Age’s Simon Dumenco pokes fun at the New York Times’ business section’s “Career Couch,” a Q&A column for career advice. A particularly lame recent column focused on the topic of co-wowrkers who stink. Not those who do a bad job, but those with body odor. Dumenco wrote, “The column ended with this helpful exchange: […]
NY Times launches new column on mortgages
The New York Times launched a new column Sunday in its Real Estate section called “Mortgages,” which is written by Bob Tedeschi. The first one can be read here. Not sure if this is a recurring column or not, but I liked it. Tedeschi also writes the E-commerce report that appears in Monday’s paper, and […]
Small Florida paper tries to improve biz coverage
The Charlotte Sun Herald, a small daily newspaper in southwest Florida, is trying to improve its business coverage. David Dunn-Rankin, the paper’s publisher, explained the changes in Sunday’s paper. Dunn-Rankin wrote, “We’ve never had a Monday Weekly Record for Sarasota County before and plan to start one this summer. A couple of readers who moved […]
Lions Gate earnings: Up or down?
Marek Fuchs, The Business Press Maven for TheStreet.com, uncovered one of the ugly incidents in business journalism in the past week: Two wire services reporting a company’s earnings in two completely different ways. I’ll let Fuchs, who in my opinion is quickly rising among business journalism critics, take it from here: “Woe are we. Here […]
Variety takes a look at CNBC
Variety reporter Michael Learmonth writes about business news network CNBC, noting that the cable network has plans to expand its evening audience. Learmonth writes, “With a hit in Jim Cramer’s ‘Mad Money’ at 6 p.m. and ‘On the Money’ at 7, [CNBC President Mark] Hoffman is now attempting to establish a beachhead at 8 by […]
Have tax cuts been good for the economy?
Fox news business anchor Neil Cavuto almost had a fist-fight on his hands Saturday during “Cavuto on Business” when his Republican panelists took opposite sides on whether President Bush’s tax cuts have been good for the economy or have caused record deficits, according to News Hounds. His usually reliable Republican guest, Ben Stein, criticized the […]
KISS vs. MEGO at the Houston Chronicle biz section
Assistant business editor Steve Rassenfoss of the Houston Chronicle has been dealing with comments from readers about how the language used in stories about the oil and engineering industry isn’t technically correct. In reader representative James Campbell’s Sunday column, it boils down to keeping it simple, stupid vs. my eyes glaze over. Rassenfoss tried to […]
Inflation: Only important to journalists when rising
Noel Sheppard of the Business & Media Institute argues that television business journalists only think that inflation is important to their viewers when it’s rising. Sheppard wrote, “Yet, when positive inflation news was announced just hours later by the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, ABC didn’t even bother reporting it on its evening news […]
A tribute to a labor reporter
Former San Francisco Chronicle labor editor Dick Meister writes about former Los Angeles Times labor reporter Harry Bernstein, who died last month. Meister wrote, “Harry’s well-earned reputation for fairness and his standing as a leading authority on labor relations were of immense help. That gave him clear access to the many union leaders and others […]
The best part of being a business reporter
According to San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Tom Abate, it’s getting the chance to meet people who are larger than life figures in society. He writes about Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in his Technology Chronicles blog. Abate wrote, “As a tech reporter since the early 1990s, I’ve met both Gates and Ballmer and […]
