Posts tagged 'Journalism'

Food for thought on digital news consumption

Lisa joined FT Alphaville in September 2011 after a tour of duty through the guts of the financial industry, having worked as an analyst at a bank and for a financial data company.

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| Feb 26 14:31 | Comment |

With the freedom to publicise at a low cost at will, what place is there for the subset of writers and editors doing this for a living? Andrew Betts, director at FT Labs, opined in a recent TEDx talk that if media organisations are to weather the changing habits of consumers of news and analysis, technological innovations must occur. Read more

Noah Smith is a moron and he’ll get cancer soon, etc

Paul Murphy is the founding editor of FT Alphaville.

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| Jul 09 2012 11:01 | Comment |

Actually, Noah Smith, author of the Noahpinion blog, is not a moron. And we certainly do not hope that he’ll get ill.

But you see we have to get in character here, because this post is about Zerohedge. Read more

‘Don’t lose respect for the trees…’

Paul Murphy is the founding editor of FT Alphaville.

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| Apr 11 2012 17:20 | Comment |

From CareerCast.com, via the WSJ, an extract from a ranking of 200 jobs, from best to worst:

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How to profit from long-tail journalism

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Jun 17 2010 17:40 | Comment |

Google may be stepping into the business of content production and journalism.

As the FT scooped on Thursday: Read more

The van Praag exchanges, an exercise in Goldman imagery

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Apr 28 2010 09:05 | Comment |

Catch up with the Goldman saga at FT Alphaville, where coverage includes an e-mail exchange kicked off by Goldman PR guru, Lucas van Praag. It’s sourced from the 900-page compendium of evidence corralled as part of the US senate investigation into the role of investment banks in the financial crisis. Read more

727 Cassandras of financial journalism

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| May 08 2009 10:56 | Comment |

The Columbia Journalism Review has published a whopping 727-story-strong list of “the best articles” foreshadowing the financial crisis.

The list covers stories written between 2000 and 2007 and published by organisations including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and yes, the FT. Read more