Business news coverage and the Facebook IPO
Arthur Brisbane, the reader representative of The New York Times, writes for Sunday’s paper about how it could have done a better job of being skeptical about the Facebook initial public offering. Brisbane writes, “One journalist who did focus intently on the risks before the I.P.O. was Eileen Brown, a social media business consultant who […]
Why Bloomberg shouldn’t buy the NYT
Jonathan Berr of InvestorPlace.com writes about why Bloomberg LP should have no interest whatsoever in acquiring the New York Times and merging its news operations with its own. Berr writes, “At a time when scads of news organizations — including the Times— are retrenching, Bloomberg has added coverage, including Bloomberg View, its op-ed page. The […]
New magazine and newspaper industry reporter starts at NYTimes
Christine Haughney, a metro reporter for the New York Times, began covering the magazine and newspaper industry beat for the paper on Monday. Haughney tweeted about the beat change on Monday. Her replacement on the transit beat is Matt Flegenheimer. Haughney joined the Times as a staff reporter for real estate news in October 2006. In this […]
Seib, O’Kelley win special Loebs
The 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award among the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism recipient is Jerry Seib, deputy managing editor and Washington bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal. This annual award recognizes an individual whose career exemplifies the consistent and superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of […]
The appealing — and annoying — aspects of Andrew Ross Sorkin
Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman writes Wednesday about business journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, who is an anchor on CNBC and also writes a column for the New York Times. Friedman writes, “Plus, the ever-ambitious Sorkin is the rare print/web journalist who has parlayed his role in a grubby newsroom to become a legitimate television-news star. […]
New York magazine hires NYT biz reporter
Kevin Roose is joining New York as lead business writer of nymag.com, according to Nymag.com editorial director Ben Williams. He will be working out of New York and Silicon Valley, reporting for nymag.com’s news blog Daily Intel, and joins from The New York Times. “I’m thrilled to have Kevin reporting for us—covering the impact that […]
From businessman to business reporter
Mara Lee of the Hartford Courant profiles New York Times investigative business reporter Charles Duhigg, who went into business after college before becoming a business journalist. Lee writes, “The first summer during his MBA program, he interned at a private equity group. “‘I was so incredibly bored. My job was building models analyzing which hotels […]
One Pulitzer winner in business journalism
A year after there were four business news-related winners among the Pulitzer Prizes, there was just one in 2012. David Kocieniewski of The New York Times won in the explanatory reporting category for his “lucid series that penetrated a legal thicket to explain how the nation’s wealthiest citizens and corporations often exploited loopholes and avoided […]
NYT tech writer Bilton to pen book about Twitter
Nick Bilton, who covers technology for the New York Times, has signed a contract to write a book about Twitter, reports Om Malik. Malik writes, “Word on the street is that Nick Bilton, the technology columnist at The New York Times, has just agreed to a deal with Penguin Portfolio for a book about Twitter. […]
Investigative reporting must be fair to subjects
David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning tax reporter for the New York Times who now writes a column for Reuters, spoke at the University of South Carolina on Wednesday as part of its journalism program’s business journalism initiative. Julianne Lewis of the Daily Gamecock writes, “Johnston said his stories have sent many people to prison, […]
