In a recent Forbes.com article, Lauren Rich Fine, director of research at ContentNext Media, urges newspapers employees to expand their boundaries and challenge current media norms with creative alternatives in order to prolong their longevity.“The world is changing. Newspapers need to change with it,” said Fine who also is a practitioner in residence at Ohio’s [...]
The Harvard Crimson has seen fewer editors going on to journalism industry careers. Of 10 previous editors at the Harvard University newspaper, only two now work at newspapers.Crimson editors choosing careers outside of journalism has become more common over the past 5 to 10 years according to Paras Bhayani, the departing managing editor. Bhayani said [...]
Reuters Small Business, a micro-site geared toward entrepreneurs, launched today.Content now up on the site includes information for finding start-up funding in the bailout area and a multimedia feature on budding handbag maven Jane Saidenberg.From the site: We’ve got a dedicated editorial team looking at the stories that matter most to the small business sector, [...]
The Phoenix Business Journal clinched four Arizona Press Club awards.The paper reports the Journal took first place for Best Use of the Web, small and medium publications. Also, Staff Photo Editor Jim Poulin won second- and third-place awards for Portrait/Personality photography, and reporter Chris Casacchia won a third-place honor for Sports Reporting on his story, [...]
An article in today’s The New York Times details the challenges faced by Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired magazine.On one hand, the magazine has been a success editorially under Anderson’s leadership. Wired won three National Magazine Awards last month.But the story details how the magazine has lost 50 percent of its ad [...]
By Leslie Wayne Fraud, it seems, is breaking out all over. While the mega-fraud of Bernard L. Madoff captures the headlines, smaller, but similar Ponzi schemes – mini-Madoffs – are now being uncovered by regulators across the country. Warren Buffett famously said that when the tide goes out you can see who’s been swimming naked. [...]
Casey Common of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune offers his analysis of “Street Fighters,” a new book which chronicles the demise of Bear Stearns.Wall Street Journal reporter Kate Kelly wrote the book after chronicling the Bear Stearns’ dismantling in a three-part series for the paper.That series served as the book’s foundation.Common says the book is “tightly written” [...]
Today Mediabistro has a podcast with Darren Rovell, the sports business reporter for CNBC.Rovell talks about how the economic crisis is affecting attendance, steroids and why business executives don’t want to sit behind home plate at the new Yankee stadium.To check out the podcast click here.
Edmund Andrews, an economics reporter for The New York Times, offers a unique glimpse into his own credit nightmare.Although Andrews knew the Federal Reserve well and wrote stories warning buyers about specific mortgages deals, he ended up stretching his finances beyond what he could afford.Andrews story on his “personal credit crisis,” offers an in-depth look [...]
