Cavuto lauds Kiplinger's Frailey column

Fox News business anchor Neil Cavuto is praising another business journalist. He enjoyed reading Kiplinger’s editor Fred Frailey’s most recent column, which asked readers a set of 12 questions. Cavuto writes, “Frailey talks about his young and otherwise very healthy brother-in-law, Billy, who dropped dead on the golf course of a heart arrhythmia earlier this […]

What Rukeyser could teach, and has taught TV biz reporters

MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman notes that there are some television business journalists who could learn by watching tapes of former Wall Street Week host Louis Rukeyser, and some who obviously have learned a thing or two from the recently deceased business journalism pioneer. Friedman writes, “CNBC would virtually perform a public service by making Dylan Ratigan […]

Remembering another Rukeyser

Jack Lail, the managing edior of multimedia for the Knoxville News-Sentinel, remembers another Rukeyser — Louis’ father Merryle — in his blog. Merryle Rukeyser was a long-time business newspaper columnist. Lail interviewed the older Rukeyser in 1988, just months before his death. He wrote, “You could see a lot of the Rukeyser’s trademark TV personality […]

Kantrow on the Bartiromo Fed scoop

TheDeal.com Executive Editor Yvette Kantrow, like many others, has a few words to say about how CNBC personality Maria Bartiromo “scooped” the rest of the financial press world by talking to Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Benanke at the White House Correspondents’ dinner last Saturday night and getting him to say that the media and […]

Comparing Cramer and Rukeyser

Washington Post business columnist Jerry Knight writes in Monday’s newspaper about the differences between two well-known TV business journalists — Jim Cramer and the recently deceased Louis Rukeyser. Knight wrote this about Rukeyser watchers: “As former ‘Wall Street Week’ guest Jim Grant recalled in the New York Times last week, columnist Russell Baker once described […]

The media world is changing; business news needs to change as well

Joe Garofili of the San Francisco Chronicle has a nice story in this morning’s newspaper about how the sale of the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times from Knight Ridder to McClatchy to MediaNews all in the span of weeks is symblomatic of the changes occurring in the media world. One of the […]

Maven's take on Rukeyser's influence

Marek Fuchs, who writes the Business Press Maven column at TheStreet.com, has his own take on the influence that Louis Rukeyser had on business journalism. Fuchs writes, “His show, ‘Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser’ ran for three decades on PBS and influenced much of the good and a little of the bad in the […]

Forbes is in the image of brash editor Baldwin

MarketWatch columnist Jon Friedman interveiwed Forbes editor William Baldwin earlier this week and found him to be brash. One example: Baldwin immediately admitted that he didn’t read Friedman’s column on the media. Friedman wrote that the business magazine is produced in the same image as Baldwin, full of competitive energy and wanting to beat others […]

A tribute to Rukeyser

Marshall Loeb, the former managing editor of Fortune and Money magazines who now writes a column for MarketWatch, lauded former Wall Street Week founder Louis Rukeyser, who died earlier this week. Loeb wrote, “When Louis Rukeyser entered the world of TV business journalism in 1970, it was Ptolemaic. When he left us this week, it […]

Toronto Star columnist: Enron's Lay right to blame media

Toronto Star business columnist David Olive writes in Wednesday’s newspaper that former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, currently on trial in Houston, has been correct in his testimony in blaming the media for the company’s downfall. Lay has blamed The Wall Street Journal, in particular, for being on a witch hunt to bring the company down. […]