Mystified by the market coverage
CBSÂ Sunday Morning commentator Nancy Giles says for all the news and media dedicated to the stock market, she still doesn’t understand it, and that doesn’t seem right. Giles said, “Money news is everywhere: On radio, financial reports at 26 and 56 minutes after the hour; on TV, stock info scrolls by underneath the news; at […]
Bancrofts back to drawing board on proposal
The Bancroft family that controls Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, has rejected a proposal designed by its attorneys to protect the paper from interference and gone back to the drawing board to come up with tougher guidelines. The new proposal would then be sent to News Corp. CEO Rupert […]
Biz reporters know how to play guitar
Sara Goo of The Washington Post tech team blogs Monday that the business desk’s representativs in a recent newsroom Guitar Hero contest came away the winners in a battle against the metro and food desks. Goo wrote, “The battle of the virtual bands happened last week, when we hooked up two guitars from the game […]
Wall Street Journal newsstand price to rise
The Wall Street Journal, which has been charging $1 for newsstand sales, will now charge $1.50, according to a short item in Thursday’s New York Times. The story stated, “The subscription price will not change, a company spokesman said, so more than 90 percent of The Journal’s buyers will not be affected. “The weekday newsstand […]
NYTimes hires TVNewser blogger to cover industry
TVNewser blogger Brian Stelter, a recent graduate of Towson University, has been hired by the New York Times to cover the business of television. The Gawker blog notes that the hiring couldn’t have come at a worse time for Bill Carter, who also covers the TV business for the Times. Gawker wrote, “In today’s New […]
Former LATimes deputy biz editor joins PR firm
Glenn Bunting, the former deputy business editor of the Los Angeles Times who took the newspaper’s buyout earlier, has accepted a job to go work for the Sitrick & Co. PR firm. According to the LAObserved web site, “The release on Bunting from Sitrick mentions that they met during coverage of the archdiocese, and also […]
Black Enterprise launches TV show
The “Black Enterprise Business Report,” a half-hour, nationally syndicated television series that spotlights successful African-American power players and business executives, debuts Saturday. The weekly series includes Power Player interviews, and Entrepreneur of the Week, wealth building and Luxe Life segments. Former CBS news anchor Shon Gables hosts the show, which is designed to fill the […]
The PR strategies behind the Dow Jones saga
Marc Longpre of PRWeek writes about the varying public relations strategies being used by the players in the bidding for Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, that has erupted. Longpre wrote, “Sources confirmed to PRWeek that Kekst & Co., the crisis and financial powerhouse, has been brought on by the […]
Life as a freelance journalist
Michael Malone, a former business writer for the San Jose Mercury News, writes on the ABC News web site about life as a freelance journalist. Malone wrote, “In 1981, I quit my job as a business reporter at the San Jose Mercury-News. I was young, cocky and frustrated with writing too many quarterly financial stories […]
Entries for Barlett & Steele Awards sought
Entries for the inaugural Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism are now being accepted, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University announced today. Named for the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative business journalist team of Don Barlett and Jim Steele, they include a first-place prize of $5,000 and […]
