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• Financial analysis of online business news sites

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:40 am

  Tags: Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Amp Co, Internet Web Sites

  Rafat Ali of PaidContent.org has a nice synopsis of a recent research report by Lehman Brothers analyst Doug Anmuth, who breaks down the revenue from the major players in the online business news category as News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch decides what to do with WSJ.com. Anmuth believes that the three big players — AOL Money & Finance,

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• When biz reporters are columnists

  Published: August 7, 2007, 7:32 am

  Tags: Commentary, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Internet Web Sites

  TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow doesn’t like the fact that mergers and acquisitions reporters such as The Wall Street Journal’s Dennis Berman and the New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin sometimes write news and sometimes write columns filled with their opinion. Kantrow wrote, “Call us hopelessly old-fashioned,

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• Fake Steve Jobs blog moves to Forbes web site

  Published: August 7, 2007, 11:09 am

  Tags: Forbes, Internet Web Sites

  moved the blog to the Forbes web site, according to a story on the Forbes site. The story stated, “‘The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs,’ a satirical blog about Apple’s iconic chief executive and purporting to be penned by him, will be published in association with Forbes.com starting Aug. 6. “‘From Jonathan Swift

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• BusinessWeek web site has more than 1 million podcast downloads

  Published: August 8, 2007, 2:35 am

  Tags: Businessweek, Internet Web Sites

  business magazine’s web site. The total downloads were 1,043,487, announced John Byrne, executive editor of BusinessWeek.com Podcasts The Welch Way and The Cover Story had the highest number of downloads. The Welch Way features Jack & Suzy Welch’s answers to readers’ questions about business, managing, and careers.

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• Not to be a kiss-up to the new boss, but…

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:34 am

  Tags: Commentary, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Amp Co, Internet Web Sites

  writes on the All Things D web site run by the paper’s tech team that she believes that the paper’s web site should be free. Coincidentally, that’s the way that new owner, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, appears to be leaning as well. Swisher wrote, “Interestingly, in an interview with paidContent.org last week, WSJ

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• Chicago Tribune starts e-mail biz news service

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:43 am

  Tags: Information, Internet Web Sites

  The Chicago Tribune announced Thursday that it will begin a business news service that will distribute the latest headlines and information to its readers via e-mail. The announcement stated, “Today’s business world demands that you stay informed each moment of the workday, and the Chicago Tribune and chicagotribune.com now have made

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• Harsh coverage almost killed Dow Jones deal

  Published: August 9, 2007, 7:29 am

  Tags: Company Coverage, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Amp Co, Internet Web Sites

  subscription-based Web site. ‘It’s expensive in the short term, but in the long term it could be a wonderful thing to do,’ Murdoch said of making WSJ.com a free site.” Read more here.

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• PC World redesigns for September issue

  Published: August 11, 2007, 4:18 am

  Tags: Redesigns, Internet Web Sites

  (complemented by an expanded Web section, PCW Business Center). Security Alert will inform readers about security threats and tools to combat them. New columns will offer tech advice in various areas. “The new look, by New York firm Don Morris Design, includes an updated logo and heavy cover emphasis on the gadgets the magazine reviews.

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• TheStreet.com’s Fuchs and Barron’s Savitz in a tiff

  Published: August 12, 2007, 7:21 am

  Tags: Commentary, Barron S, Thestreet Com, Internet Web Sites

  Apparently Barron’s writer Eric Savitz didn’t take too kindly to TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs criticizing him for writing the same story about Microsoft stock over and over again. Fuchs wrote, “He first said that my coverage was obnoxious. To this, I must say: I resemble that accusation. But beyond that, he only had one

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• Portfolio gearing up webcasts for site

  Published: August 13, 2007, 3:52 am

  Tags: Conde Nast Portfolio, New York Times, Internet Web Sites

  up more content for its web site. Aspan wrote, “According to Perri Dorset, a spokeswoman for Cond Nast, the daily business Webcast will be part of the refreshed Portfolio Web site, which will graduate from its test stage on Aug. 23 with new bloggers, additional content and a redesigned home page. (The Webcast will be introduced at a

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• Marketwatch founder joins VC firm

  Published: August 13, 2007, 11:11 am

  Tags: Job Changes, Marketwatch, Dow Jones Amp Co, Internet Web Sites

  founded the Marketwatch news web site that now belongs to Dow Jones & Co., is joining venture capital firm Polaris Venture Partners, writes Tonya Garcia on PRWeek’s blog. Garcia wrote, “For PR pros, Kramer thinks the Internet has the potential to dramatically enhance the capabilities of guerrilla marketing because the Web can

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• Tech journalists: We read blogs

  Published: August 13, 2007, 9:55 am

  Tags: Information, Reporting Tips, Internet Web Sites

  More than three out of every four tech reporters surveyed said they read blogs on a regular basis, according to a study released Monday by Fusion PR. About half of the more than 1,100 tech reporters surveyed said they read between one to three blogs every day, and nearly a third of them said that they consider blogs to be credible sources.

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• Portfolio.com story has info TK

  Published: August 14, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Conde Nast Portfolio, Internet Web Sites

  on the Conde Nast Portfolio web site Monday afternoon had two TKs in the text. That’s shorthand by journalists for information “to come.” Flamm wrote, “Portfolio.com, is hardly the first Web site to put up a story that still needed work. But it's a little unusual for TKs to make it into public view. “A Portfolio

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• Corcoran named Forbes.com tech editor

  Published: August 15, 2007, 3:06 am

  Tags: Information, Forbes, Internet Web Sites

  Forbes.com announced that Elizabeth Corcoran, contributing editor at Forbes magazine, is assuming the position of technology channel editor for Forbes.com. She will start in September. “Elizabeth is a highly-respected journalist amongst her peers and the technology industry alike. Her understanding of the business and keen eye for

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• Pro vs. con in WSJ.com debate

  Published: August 15, 2007, 6:44 am

  Tags: Commentary, Wall Street Journal, Internet Web Sites

  Glaser of the PBS MediaShift web site has a list of five reasons why The Wall Street Journal should make its web site free to all users, and five reasons why it should remain a pay site. Here is one of the reasons to make it free: Business portal dreams. Murdoch has designs on creating the business news portal, something done already to a certain

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