It’s not easy to be in the news business today. Reuters said recently it will cut its newsroom staff by five percent – a sharp turnabout from two years ago when it was boldly hiring talent from rival news organizations. There are bright spots in the business, but they happen to be far away from […]
Roya Wolverson, the global business editor at Time magazine, has just taken a new job as deputy global news editor at Quartz, a business news website. Never heard of it? That’s likely to change. Quartz and other digital upstarts are attracting top talent – and readers. No company or CEO can afford to ignore them.
Reuters can take a well-earned bow for its coverage of Chesapeake Energy and its CEO, Aubrey McClendon. The news service has broken several major stories in the past three weeks that brought to light McClendon’s questionable financial dealings, including his borrowings against stakes in the company’s wells and investments in a hedge fund. The reports […]