TJFR Business News Reporter 2.0

Republican's Run Into Economic Resentment Says Alan Murray of The Wall Street Journal

"It's going to make it very difficult for any Republican to get elected in any national election," says The Wall Street Journal's Alan Murray of the resentment that has arisen from the economic uncertainty facing much of the nation.

That is one sentiment Murray expressed during an interview with Frank MacEachern of the Stamford (CT) Times, during an interview prior to Murray's October 22, 2007 before the Stamford World Affairs Forum.  Murray's speech was hosted by Pitney Bowes Inc., at the Pitney Bowes global headquarters, MacEachern reported.

The Times reports that Murray believes "America's direction in economic affairs is now in the hands of Democrats who are increasingly taking a skeptical look at globalization and free trade."

New York Times' Floyd Norris on Panel at Harvard University

A panel of four journalists and academics debated the media's ability and responsibilty for forecasting economic trends, such as the ongoing subprime mortgage crisis and the dot-com bubble.

As reported November 2, 2007 in the Harvard Crimson by Athena Y. Jiang, the panelists included Floyd Norris, chief financial correspondent for The New York Times and Jane B. Quinn, a contributing editor at Newsweek.

According to Jiang, Norris said the media did its job in predicting problems ahead, but the public was in no mood to listen.  "Eventually I got tired of writing how crazy the stock market was," Norris said referring to the high-tech bubble.

Stephen J. Adler Explains Redesign of BusinessWeek

Stephen J. Adler, editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek, says the relaunch of the 78-year-old magazine is aimed at keeping apace with the harried lives of the magazine's 4.8 million weekly readers.

"...we live in your world -- one of intense time pressure, global competition, information overload, and relentless change," Adler writes in his Editor's Memo. "And like you, we can't stand still."

Adler told The New York Times:

"We're seeing a reader who is much busier than ever. But if you really add tremendous value to the reader, and they're deeply engaged in the material, the broad premise is: that's good for everyone -- the consumer and the advertiser."

Adler has been at the top of the BusinessWeek masthead since April 2005.

Wall Street Journal's Alan Murray Among Speakers At Recent 'Future of Business Media' in NYC

Alan Murray, executive editor of The Wall Street Journal Online, was one of the featured speakers at the recently concluded 'Future of Business Media' conference in New York.

According to Rafat Ali, writing at paidContent.org, Murray was a panelist at the event's speakers dinner, which also featured Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times and David Lieberman of USA Today.

Ali described the discussion as "vigourous" and said it included a look at how their jobs in business journalism have changed in the past two years.