https://talkingbiznews.com/tag/commentary/ A business journalism site for pens in pursuit of the bottom line Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:41:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://talkingbiznews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/tbn_logo.svg https://talkingbiznews.com/tag/commentary/ 32 32 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/gapper-named-fts-chief-uk-business-columnist/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/gapper-named-fts-chief-uk-business-columnist/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:41:16 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172939 John Gapper has been named chief UK business columnist for the Financial Times. He has been a business columnist of the FT Weekend. He writes a weekly column on business and society from a consumer perspective, and other features and interviews. He was formerly the FT’s chief business commentator and opinion & analysis editor. He has […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/gapper-named-fts-chief-uk-business-columnist/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/washington-posts-long-to-become-columnist-focused-on-economy/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/washington-posts-long-to-become-columnist-focused-on-economy/#respond Fri, 23 Aug 2024 02:22:27 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172654 David Shipley of The Washington Post sent out the following on Thursday: Let’s start with Heather Long. Heather, who has been a member of the editorial board since 2021, will become a 24/7 columnist starting in September. Her focus will be the U.S. economy – from the ground up. She’ll be writing about workers, businesses, corporate leaders […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/washington-posts-long-to-become-columnist-focused-on-economy/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/when-gag-rules-stifle-business-reporting/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/when-gag-rules-stifle-business-reporting/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:41:06 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172302 Seth Stern of the Freedom of the Press Foundation writes about how regulatory agency gag rules hurt business reporting. Stern writes, “You might ask, how can a relatively obscure 1972 rule from a financial regulator be awful enough to bring together such strange bedfellows? Let me explain. “The ‘gag rule’ requires defendants who settle enforcement actions […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/when-gag-rules-stifle-business-reporting/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/lets-stop-writing-about-every-elon-musk-tweet/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/lets-stop-writing-about-every-elon-musk-tweet/#respond Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:46:08 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=171305 Jason Koebler of 404 Media writes about the tech media’s obsession with writing stories around when Elon Musk tweets. Koebler writes, “In the 18 hours since Musk has dashed out a few errant thoughts about possibly banning Apple devices at his companies, Google News has indexed roughly 100 different articles about the tweets, most of which […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/lets-stop-writing-about-every-elon-musk-tweet/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsjs-coverage-of-bidens-acuity-takes-criticism/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsjs-coverage-of-bidens-acuity-takes-criticism/#respond Thu, 06 Jun 2024 14:24:15 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=171193 Oliver Darcy of CNN writes that a Wall Street Journal article earlier this week about President Joe Biden’s acuity is drawing criticism. Darcy writes, “A spokesperson for The Journal told me that the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper, which is under the stewardship of newish editor Emma Tucker, ‘stands by its reporting.’ If Tucker is comfortable with such shoddy journalism, […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsjs-coverage-of-bidens-acuity-takes-criticism/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-proper-way-to-write-a-tech-review/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-proper-way-to-write-a-tech-review/#respond Wed, 15 May 2024 16:15:06 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=170747 Famous tech product reviewers Walt Mossberg and Marques Brownlee spoke with his former colleague Kara Swisher about how to properly write product reviews. Here is an excerpt: Brownlee: But a Frisbee team I play for uses it to talk to each other, and they were all talking about this certain product, whether they should buy it or not. […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-proper-way-to-write-a-tech-review/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/fortune-launches-advice-column-for-entrepreneurs/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/fortune-launches-advice-column-for-entrepreneurs/#respond Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:35:37 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=170337 Fortune magazine has launched “Ask Andy,” a bi-weekly advice column for entrepreneurs and start-up founders. It will be written by Andy Dunn, co-founder of e-commerce pioneer Bonobos and an investor in and advisor to other startups. Dunn is the author of “Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind,” a memoir on mental illness […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/fortune-launches-advice-column-for-entrepreneurs/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-problem-with-tech-journalism/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-problem-with-tech-journalism/#respond Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:06:42 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=170300 Timothy B. Lee writes in Asterisk magazine about why a lot of technology reporting is superficial. Lee writes, “The awkward reality is that tech journalism is the way it is because that’s mostly what consumers want. Nobody is explicitly asking for technology coverage that lacks depth or nuance, of course. But journalism like this is […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-problem-with-tech-journalism/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/bloomberg-opinion-hires-smith-as-a-columnist/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/bloomberg-opinion-hires-smith-as-a-columnist/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:33:37 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=169855 Bloomberg Opinion senior executive editor Timothy O’Brien sent out the following on Wednesday: Victoria Benning and I are pleased to let you know that Erika Smith will be joining Opinion as a politics and policy columnist based in Los Angeles. She’ll start on April 29. Prior to joining Opinion, Erika was a columnist with the […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/bloomberg-opinion-hires-smith-as-a-columnist/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/tofel-on-the-purge-at-the-wall-street-journal/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/tofel-on-the-purge-at-the-wall-street-journal/#respond Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:39:31 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=168751 Richard Tofel, a former attorney and associate publisher at The Wall Street Journal, writes about the decline of its culture. Tofel writes, “In the last 14 months, and with the advent of the most recent of the editors, things have changed rapidly, and brutally. The editor-in-chief, managing editor (now the number two role), two deputy […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/tofel-on-the-purge-at-the-wall-street-journal/feed/ 0