Is providing information early a crime?
Gordon Crovitz, the former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, writes about how the New York attorney general pressured Thomson Reuters into stopping its policy of providing access to consumer confidence data early to some clients and what that might mean for other forms of information. Crovitz writes, “Mr. Schneiderman’s legal theory would have banned […]
Betting against what other personal finance journalists are writing
Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal, who earlier this week won a Gerald Loeb Award for personal finance coverage, writes Friday about how he does his job. Zweig writes, “But humans perceive reality in short bursts and streaks, making a long-term perspective almost impossible to sustain – and making most people prone to believing […]
Does biz journalism no longer care about Jeff Skilling?
Perhaps the most stunning news to come from Jeff Skilling’s resentencing last week was that the fallen Enron executive had grown a salt-and-pepper beard. This wasn’t the shaggy face carpet that Ivan Boesky sported after years behind bars. Skilling — who has spent his time tutoring fellow inmates in Spanish and, rather disturbingly, business — […]
Vancouver biz columnist retiring
David Baines, who has had nearly 4,000 bylines in the Vancouver Sun in the past 25 years after working in banking, is retiring from the newspaper. He says business editor Derrick Penner will be writing more about the investigative topics he covered. Baines writes, “Over the past quarter century, The Sun has published 3,887 stories […]
Browning launches new WSJ column
Francesco Guerrera, the money & investing editor for The Wall Street Journal, posted the following announcement online on Thursday: Today we’re excited to present the firs installment of a regular online column by one of the most distinguished voices in financial journalism, E.S. “Jim” Browning. Jim’s column will provide MoneyBeat readers with a fresh […]
Frankie Flack: Beaten by the drum beat
During the last couple of weeks the number of headlines using the words crisis, scandal and shocker have increased tenfold. Political editors have had to dive deeply into their thesaurus’ to keep the text of one scandal story after another fresh for readers. While I am no expert on governmental affairs or political public relations, […]
Does the biz media get stories wrong?
Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic responds to “The American Pravda,” a provocative article by Ron Unz of The American Conservative that dissects why American media is so bad. Here is the argument regarding business journalism, and Friedersdorf’s response: Having described the failure of the press to uncover impending doom at Enron or Bernie Madoff’s hedge […]
Criticizing the gestation period of a llama
Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review has an excerpt from Ann Davis Vaughan, a former Wall Street Journal reporter that is a contribution to Ink Stained: Essays By the Columbia University Graduate Journalism Class of 1992, edited by JJ Hornblass, Michele Turk, and Tom Vogel. The book is self-published and on sale today at […]
Dallas paper hires consumer watchdog columnist
Dave Lieber, the consumer watchdog columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram who was laid off after 20 years at the paper in January, has been hired by the Dallas Morning News. Lieber’s inaugural column with the Morning News will be published on Friday, May 31. His column will run every Friday and Sunday. “Dave has one […]
WSJ names Nixon its chief Euro commentator
Thorold Barker, the Wall Street Journal editor who oversees coverage of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, sent out the following staff promotion on Monday: I am delighted to announce that Simon Nixon is appointed Chief European Commentator of the Wall Street Journal. High quality commentary and analysis is an increasingly […]
