Did 24/7 Wall St. have it in for Fox?
Sharon Waxman’s TheWrap has a post that questions why 24/7 Wall St. would write about Fox Business Network‘s low audience numbers when it had proposed that Fox Business be the Web site’s exclusive provider of video business news just two months earlier. Lew Harris writes, “But an insider at the station (a real one, at […]
Panel in New York next week on business journalism's future
The Columbia Journalism Review and the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute will hold a panel discussion next week on the future of business journalism in the wake of the economic meltdown. The session will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16, at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in the World Room. The panelists […]
Why do biz journalists use Byrne as a source?
Business journalist Gary Weiss wonders on his blog why Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, a frequent critic of business journalism, is used as a source for stories. Weiss writes, “One really has to wonder what motivated the Salt Lake City Tribune, in this story, to buttonhole Byrne of all people to pontificate on corporate management of […]
NPR biz reporter taken to woodshed
National Public Radio ombudsman Alicia Shepard writes Wednesday about the unprofessional behavior of Planet Money reporter Adam Davidson during a podcast with the TARP watchdog. Shepard writes, “Yet when he and Planet Money’s Alex Blumberg edited down the 74-minute interview into a 13-minute podcast segment, they kept only the pyrotechnics: Davidson and Warren raising their […]
The blurring line between advertising and editorial
Natalie Pompilio, a former staff writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, writes in the latest issue of the American Journalism Review about how the previous strong wall separating editorial and advertising at media outlets is collapsing. She says one publisher was offered a deal by a local company that wanted to sponsor a column about its […]
Can biz media merge perspective with distance from sources?
Bruce Watson of Daily Finance takes a look at how the business media failed to warn readers about the economic crisis and searches for a solution. Watson writes, “As more and more members of the general public feel obliged to watch the financial market, the question increasingly becomes who, exactly, they can look to. On […]
We're all to blame for financial crisis
Joseph Perone of the Newark Star-Ledger interviewed Fox Business Network anchor Alexis Glick about the current economic crisis and touched briefly on whether the financial press was to blame for not warning consumers. Here is an excerpt: Q: Were some financial journalists too cheerleaderish about the stock market? A: There were just as many naysayers. […]
More on the Edmund Andrews controversey
Leon Neyfakh of the New York Observer writes Wednesday about New York Times economics reporter Edmund Andrews, whose lack of disclosure about his wife’s bankruptcy in writing about how his family has been affected by the current economy has him in hot water. Neyfakh writes, “On Tuesday, Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzorati told Off the […]
The ethics of NYTimes economics reporter Edmund Andrews
New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt addresses the ethical considerations behind allowing economics reporter Edmund Andrews to write about his personal money problems related to a subprime mortgage at the same time he covers economic policy for the paper. Hoyt writes, “Baquet said he saw no conflict in Andrews’s personal situation and his beat, […]
Lack of coverage of Microsoft CEO summit
Andrea James of the online Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes Friday about the lack of media attention given the Microsoft CEO Summit because the media wasn’t invited. James writes, “The event was news in itself even though no news was announced. They discussed the convergence of technology, business issues, economic trends and making the world a better place. […]
