Chronicle's Enron covered excelled
Houston Chronicle reader representative James Campbell is gloating, as are readers, about the paper’s coverage of the recently concluded Enron trial in his Sunday column. Campbell writes, “Leading up to the trial, the Chronicle was criticized by some readers, who believed our stories about Lay and Skilling were soft and self-serving. Deputy managing editor George […]
Business mags have gotten weird, according to Kantrow
TheDeal.com Executive Editor Yvette Kantrow, who writes a weekly column called “Media Maneuvers,” has a fit in her latest about the most recent cover topic of Smart Money magazine, which claims to have discovered some important ways for all of us to stay healthy, not that that’s a business issue. Kantrow writes, “SmartMoney certainly leads […]
Castro continues to attack Forbes
Cuban leader Fidel Castro continued his offensive earlier this week against Forbes magazine, which earlier listed his net worth as $900 million in a ranking of the richest government leaders in the world. The Xinhua news agency reported, “‘They cannot remain quiet. We must make them speak,’ Castro said during a seven-hour program, his second […]
Adler shakes up BusinessWeek
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman continues his analysis of the business magazines with a column Friday on the changes that new editor Stephen Adler has made at BusinessWeek since he took over in 2005. It should be noted that Friedman once worked at BusinessWeek, as did I. Adler has had to overcome the perception that […]
Media acquitted with Enron verdict
The Houston Chronicle’s Rick Casey has a nice front-page column in Friday noting that the Enron jury found the business media, who had been blamed by defendants Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling of causing the company’s downfall, not guilty. But the media, he notes, was guilt of writing overly positive stories about Enron. Casey writes, […]
Enron verdict stories out quickly on the Internet
The media has inundated the Internet with stories about the Enron verdict, which was announced at noon Eastern Standard Time. Some of them are standing out for their comprehensiveness in what the case means, showing that there were a number of business journalists prepared for the verdict. If you’ve never covered a white collar criminal […]
Kudos to biz reporters on options backdating coverage
John R. Austin, an organizational behavior professor at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, lauds the recent coverage in the financial press regarding the options backdating scandal, as well as the academics who helped uncover this issue, on his “Monty’s Bluff” blog. And he offers a suggestion on where the reporting should go next. Austin […]
SEC filings may not be as good in disclosure
BusinessWeek’s Dawn Kopecki has a great story posted on the magazine’s Web site and in other places on the Internet today about how President Bush has given his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, the power to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations. In other words, companies can omit information from their […]
Does business journalism attract the best minds today?
Willy Stern, a former writer for Forbes, BusinessWeek and other publications, writes in the Nashville Scene how the journalism business has changed, and he argues that the most important change has been in the talent in the newsroom. Stern writes, “We journalists are an I.Q.-driven profession. In business school terms, our primary source of capital […]
Deadline Club winners dominated by biz journalism
Although there is two categories for business journalism, the winners of many of the other categories for the Deadline Club contest, organized by the New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, were business journalists or stories about how business is affecting society. Ellen Schultz of the Wall Street Journal, for example, won in […]
