Category Archives: Media

Last week, Lance Knobel noted that you can’t find the FT’s blogs at blogs.ft.com: that’s the home of just one blog, Martin Wolf’s economists’ forum. Instead, the official FT blogs page is www.ft.com/comment/blogs, which points to eight different blogs including … Continue reading →

Jack Flack reveals an open secret in the journalism community: Business journalism sells best when it apes sports journalism, particularly in framing clear conflicts that elevate the mundane into something more compelling. That’s particularly true of business television. CNBC struggled … Continue reading →

Memo to Jeff Bercovici: What’s with Jim Surowiecki’s column in this week’s New Yorker? It’s right there on the website – complete with no fewer than nineteen hyperlinks. (Someone give this guy a blog!) But it’s in the "online only" … Continue reading →

A ballsy headline from Bloomberg today: Flowers Sallie Mae Failure Proves He’s No Schwarzman The piece is a long and reasonably measured article about Christopher Flowers and his failing bid for Sallie Mae, complete with laudatory quote from Jon Corzine. … Continue reading →

Do you have an overwhelming desire to join an online community designed to help women advance their careers? Clearly someone thinks that there’s demand for this kind of thing, because two such websites have just launched: theglasshammer.com and damselsinsuccess.com. Being … Continue reading →

How much money did the FT save by caving in to the Singapore government’s bullying tactics? In the first instance, about £67,000. Dow Jones’s Far Eastern Economic Review is fighting the Singapore government in a similar case, showing a bit … Continue reading →

Dow Jones has a section in its latest proxy filing giving the history of its takeover by Rupert Murdoch. But it might be 1957, not 2007, for all that the key individuals seem incapable of so much as placing a … Continue reading →

Tim Harford is now blogging at FT.com, and his very first blog entry there links to me, so of course this is my new favorite blog. Better yet, he’s serving up a full RSS feed. If the FT can do … Continue reading →

Google now drives more traffic to nytimes.com than links from the nytimes.com homepage and all emailed articles combined. Alex Patriquin has the chart; it shows that in September, the top referral source for nytimes.com was Google, with 4,862,831 referrals. That’s … Continue reading →

I still can’t quite believe the supine nature in which a throwaway clause in a rushed WSJ article – "people in the music industry estimate that at current recorded-music prices, the promoter would have to sell about 15 million copies … Continue reading →

I understand the thinking behind Live Nation poaching Madonna. Big concert acts like her receive 90% of gross revenues, which means that concert-promotion companies like Live Nation have difficulty making any money: In 2005 and 2006, Live Nation lost $130 … Continue reading →

Tyler Cowen goes searching for Paul Krugman’s lastest book: At my Borders, circa 4 p.m., they hadn’t even unpacked it. "Yeah, we have that in the back somewhere, I haven’t seen it yet." was what the guy said. Cowen reckons … Continue reading →

One of the great things about Portfolio magazine is that it has, so far, managed to avoid any kind of feature article on the subject of high-end watches. Any reader of high-end glossies aimed at rich businessmen is by this … Continue reading →