Easier to fawn over tech CEOs than write hard news

Eric Bovim writes for Salon about why we’re seeing the beginnings of another tech bubble and how financial journalists are contributing to the problem. Bovim writes, “Many in today’s financial press are doing a fine job as present-day pasticheurs of dot-com era vanity. But why? Why their reluctance to deliver real, incisive business journalism? Why […]

Why we need muckrakers today

Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post writes about the need of muckraking journalism today to let the world know about income inequality. Calderone writes, “Starkman gives high marks to Michael Hudson, now a senior editor at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and The Financial Times’ Gillian Tett, for raising concerns about the subprime market […]

Frankie Flack: Why commentary is killing business journalism

So last week, the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, wunderkid (apparently, when writing about Ezra, there is a rule you must use the term “wunderkid”), walked away from the newspaper to create his own digital property. But Ezra is hardly an original; his departure lagged that of Walter Mossberg‘s decision to flee the confines of The […]

The financial media and the stock bubble

Dwight Cass writes on Fortune.com about how the financial news media are currently analyzing the stock market’s current conditions. Cass writes, “Skepticism about the sustainability of the remarkable 2013 bull run even has made a welcome appearance in the mainstream business press’s financial blogs. But to give investors the tools they need to understand the […]

Tech stocks rise due to weak financial journalism

Tech stocks have returned to bubble levels, thanks to PR, weak financial journalism and cheap credit, writes noted financial journalist David Cay Johnston. Johnston writes, “These sky-high valuations get little skeptical coverage in the financial press, which has acted more as lapdog than watchdog in the past decade. Instead of barking warnings, many Wall Street […]

Bloomberg View has failed to spark debate

Laura Bennett of The New Republic writes about Bloomberg View, the commentary arm of Bloomberg L.P. Bennett writes, “But nearly three years into its existence, despite its lofty mission and its gallery of bigwigs, View has largely failed to spark debate among the cultural elite or usurp the clout of The New York Times’ op-ed […]

The Financial Follies from a PR perspective

The 71st annual Financial Follies (“The Follies”) was held last Friday at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square and hosted by the New York Financial Writers’ Association. The Follies is an event where reporters and public relations professionals alike engage in respectable behavior and generally call it a night after their second drink. I’d been […]

How to get the most out of the financial media

Barry Ritholtz writes about how readers of the financial media should assess and use the information. Ritholtz writes, “One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty. On TV, guests are rarely called out for terrible calls or stock picks. Columnists can […]

Why business journalists and investors are different

David Jackson, the founder and CEO of SeekingAlpha.com, argues that investors who write about the markets are better than business journalists. Jackson writes, “The same is true of investors. They are forced to recognize and avoid herd-thinking, because they live by the metric of investment returns, not pageviews. Investors are constantly scored by the market, […]

Biz columnist: Tech companies need to talk to us more

Michelle Quinn, the new business columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, writes her first column and argues that the tech companies in Silicon Valley need to talk to the media more. Quinn writes, “I see this column as a conversation. I’ll bring insight and analysis about the big news, and point out the big […]