The ethics of a biz journalist sharing passwords
Margaret Sullivan, the public editor of The New York Times, writes about technology writer Jenna Wortham‘s recent admission that she shares passwords for Netflix. Sullivan writes, “Another reader, Fred Goodwin, wrote to me: ‘I find it surprising that a NYT columnist would publicly advocate and actively participate in such a practice. This strikes me as […]
NYTimes names second new tech editor this year
The New York Times, which named Glenn Kramon as tech editor earlier this year, has now named another new tech editor. Here is the email sent out by business editor Dean Murphy: She whoops with excitement and can even become airborne when a Tech story gets fronted. She unapologetically elbows her way to the front […]
Bloomberg View hires Landman
Bloomberg View announced Wednesday that Jonathan Landman, former deputy managing editor and former culture editor of The New York Times, has been named editor-at-large. This is a new position that will encompass a range of duties, beginning with finding innovative and engaging ways to distill, integrate and present Bloomberg opinion, news and analytics. “Jon has […]
NYT assistant biz editor moving to San Francisco
New York Times business editor Dean Murphy sent out the following announcement on Friday afternoon: This is a bad news/good news announcement. First the bad news: The BizDay backfield is about to lose the guy who keeps the M&M dispenser fully stocked. OK, the M&M supply is not really what makes Vindu Goel so valuable […]
Ex-NYT deputy biz editor joining Bloomberg News
Winnie O’Kelley, the former deputy business editor at The New York Times, is joining Bloomberg News as an editor at large, journalists at Bloomberg confirmed to Talking Biz News. O’Kelley left the Times in late January, shortly after business editor Larry Ingrassia moved to another position at the paper, by taking its buyout offer. She […]
Time and Meredith: Will they mesh?
The New York Times ran an interesting story Monday about the merger of Time Inc. and Meredith Corp. The basic premise of the story is that Meredith is the good, frugal, honest Midwest firm while Time is the greedy, bloated and wasteful New York publishing giant. Without actually coming out and saying it, the prediction is […]
Pick your battles, Tesla and New York Times
The gloves came off last week after the New York Times hammered Tesla Motors’ Model S car in an article. Tesla Chairman and CEO Elon Musk used data logged by the car to conduct a point-to-point rebuttal of the negative review. The donnybrook was, if not enjoyable, unusual. Rarely does a CEO go to such […]
NYT biz desk names enterprise editor, international editor
New York Times business editor Dean Murphy sent out the following staff announcement by email on Tuesday: I am pleased to announce that two of BizDay’s finest editors will be assuming key editing jobs — Dave Gillen as our enterprise chief and Damon Darlin as international business editor. Read about their new responsibilities here. […]
U.S. economic growth stalls
The news for the U.S. economy wasn’t good on Wednesday as domestic growth stalled. An increase in retail sales in the fourth quarter wasn’t enough to offset the biggest drop in government spending since 1973, according to the Wall Street Journal. What’s interesting is that the major business media interpreted the results differently. Here’s The […]
No credit to Reuters from competitors
Ryan Chittum of Columbia Journalism Review writes about how competing business news media did not credit Reuters’ investigative work last year on Chesapeake Energy for the announcement Tuesday that its CEO was stepping down. Chittum writes, “Beat reporters tend and their bosses not to like to give credit to competitors who have scooped them repeatedly. […]
