Breakingviews.com column now appearing in Toronto papers

Breakingviews.com is now providing content to the Toronto-based National Post, Financial Post and financialpost.com, according to an Editor & Publisher brief. The brief states, “Canwest’s National Post said it is the exclusive English-language Canadian newspaper to carry breakingviews.com content. The column adds to the paper’s Canadian business coverage with commentaries on global financial issues, including […]

New biz editor in Monterey

Lane Wallace, The Monterey County Herald’s interim business reporter since May, has been named to the position on a regular basis, according to a brief in the paper on Friday. The brief states, “He replaces Marie Vasari, business editor since 2005. She gave birth to a daughter in June and has decided to be a […]

Toledo newspaper launching biz magazine

The Toledo Blade announced Friday that it has started a quarterly business magazine. A story on the paper’s Web site states, “The first edition of Toledo BIZinsider, a 40-page publication, is being mailed this week to 10,000 leaders in metro Toledo and another 5,000 copies will be distributed at various business offices. “The free publication […]

Madoff books not selling well

Hillel Italie of the Associated Press reports that the books about convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff released in the past month have not been flying off the shelved. Italie writes, “According to Nielsen BookScan, neither a much-discussed tell-all by alleged ex-mistress Sheryl Weinstein nor a recent wave of biographies about the imprisoned financier have caught […]

Indy Star biz columnist leaving

Indianapolis Star business columnist John Ketzenberger is leaving the newspaper to become president of the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute, according to an Indianapolis Business Journal story. The story states, “Ketzenberger has been one of the Star’s most visible columnists in recent years, appearing frequently in promotions for the newspaper. He also is regular commentator on […]

Ex-Rocky biz reporter now running trade group

Joanne Kelley, who used to cover nonprofits as a Rocky Mountain News business reporter, is the new head of the trade group for Colorado philanthropists, according to a Denver Business Journal story. The story states, “Kelley is executive director of the Colorado Association of Funders (CAF), an organization of businesses, foundations and others who regularly […]

Business News Network, Canada's CNBC equivalent, turns 10

Business News Network, which is Canada’s lone cable business news network, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Since ROBTv — renamed BNN in 2008 – launched on Sept. 1, 1999, it has been the destination for business stories that matter to Canadians. BNN’s team of 120 staff works to bring viewers 25 live business interviews daily, and to […]

Westchester biz news staff gone

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The entire business news staff at The Journal News in Westchester County, New York, a Gannett newspaper, is gone this week in the round of 50 cutbacks at the paper. These include business editor Mike Bieger and reporters Julie Moran Alterio, Jerry Gleeson and Jay Loomis. The former business editor, who was most recently data […]

Trade magazine advertising falls 30%

Jason Fell of Folio reports that trade magazine advertising pages fell 30.2 percent through the first half of 2009, according to American Business Media’s Business Information Network numbers released Tuesday. Revenues were down 26.5 percent. Fell writes, “ABM also noted that b-to-b trade show revenue, as tracked by Center for Exhibition Industry Research, was down 18.6 […]

Seattle Business mag owner to provide content for Seattlepi.com

The owner of Seattle Business magazine announced Tuesday that it would begin providing business news content to the Web site of the former Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper. Under the terms of the agreement, Tiger Oak will provide several stories per week on seattlepi.com in their business and lifestyle sections of the web site. In turn, seattlepi.com […]