Bloomberg News writer is new National Press Club president

Jonathan Salant, who works for Bloomberg News in Washington, is the new president of the National Press Club. Salant covers campaign finance and lobbying for Bloomberg. He has been a member of the Press Club Board of Governors since 1998 and currently serves as vice president. He is past president of the Regional Reporters Association […]

Does the news media make economics coverage negative?

That’s the summary of what the Newsbusters blog is saying about Robert Samuelson’s column in this week’s issue of Newsweek. Samuelson’s column is about five things that could go wrong with the economy in 2006, including the potential for GM to file for bankruptcy court protection. He states, “All this good news is, of course, […]

LA Times series on labor causing a lot of talk

The Los Angeles Times this week has been running a series called “UFW: A Broken Promise” on the migrant farm worker population that is so important to California agriculture and the state’s economy. You can read the series here. The day one story has this as its multi-paragraphed nut: “Today, a Times investigation has found, […]

Real estate writing competition

Just a warning: If you win, you might have to hear me speak. I have committed to talk about real estate coverage at the NAREE convention. The deadline to enter the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) Journalism Awards Program is fast approaching. The competition, open to ALL media covering real estate and home […]

Knoxville newspaper to start business journal this week

The Knoxville News Sentinel will begin publishing a weekly business newspaper called the Greater Knoxville Business Journal this week. The publication date for the first issue will be in mailboxes by Jan. 17. The new publication will have a Web site at www.knoxbusinessjournal.com, but as of now, it’s not up and running. (When you click […]

CNNMoney web site is relaunched

I’m going to ignore the press release that Time Inc. and CNN, both pieces of the huge AOL Time Warner media conglomerate, and tell you what I like about the redesigned web site: 1. It has easy access fo the company’s business publications — Fortune, Money, Fortune Small Business and Business 2.0. Previously, if you […]

Pittsburgh business editors to hold panel

This is for our Pittsburgh-area readers: Three business editors from Pittsburgh publications will conduct a panel for area communicators in a professional development program presented by IABC/Pittsburgh on Thursday, Jan. 26 from 7:30 – 9:30 a.m. at the Rivers Club in One Oxford Center downtown. Lauren Lawley Head, editor of The Pittsburgh Business Times; Steve […]

Two Texas business journals sold to Scripps

Newspaper chain E. W. Scripps Co. has acquired two bi-weekly business journals in Texas. They are the The Business Journal of Corpus Christi and The Business Times of the Rio Grande Valley. Scripps also owns the daily newspaper in Corpus Christi. The two business journals reach about 26,000 business people in each market. The Business […]

CNBC's global show

The Independent, the British newspaper, has a nice analysis piece in this morning’s paper about how business news cable channel CNBC is now running a simultaneous broadcast on three different continents, with the idea being that people outside of North America will want the same business news as those inside of North America. It’s kind […]

Roanoke Times changes business columnists

The Roanoke Times, which has a scrappy business section in western Virginia, is changing business columnists. Camile Wright Miller, who wrote a workplace column called “Working it Out” for the past 10 years, has apparently joined the management of the newspaper, according to this item. The column is being replaced by John MacIntyre’s “Figuratively Speaking.” […]