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A Who's Who of Influential Journalists

NewsBios tracks the comings and goings of influential journalists and compiles professionally reported biographical profiles on them. 

Our service is used primarily by PR people and senior corporate executives who feel more confident knowing the backgrounds of journalists who approach them for interviews or who they approach with news and feature ideas. NewsBios also reaches many journalists, including leading editors, who use the service in recruiting staff and for competitive analysis.

Because NewsBios has reported on the most important journalists for more than 20 years, we are viewed in many newsrooms as a kind of a Who's Who of Influential Journalists with more than 7,000 profiles on file representing every major American news outlet and many global news leaders. 

NewsBios include information on the public record and/or provided to our reporters directly by the journalists themselves. 

Our executive editor is Dean Rotbart, who got his start as a reporter and columnist at The Wall Street Journal.  Dean has been a media reporter for almost 20 years.  He oversees all reporting and is integral in making the selection of which journalists to include on our website.

Below are the names of some of our most in-demand profiles. Would you like to get to know these influential journalists well? Their NewsBios are only $69.95 each.

An example of a NewsRoom Confidential interview with David Schlesinger -- Global Managing Editor, Reuters.

Mr. Schlesinger is one of the most influential journalists on the planet. In this interview he spends 20 minutes discussing his role at Reuters and ways in which tomorrow's journalists should best prepare themselves.

 

Other exclusive interviews with today's leading journalists include:
 

Hilary Black, Editor in Chief, TANGO Magazine

Gay Bryant, Editor, Success Magazine

Jeff Crilley, Reporter, KDFW-Fox 4 TV (Dallas)

Rich Dubroff, producer, NBC News (Washington D.C.)

Dr. Michael R. Eades, author and blogger

Carol Evans, Publisher, Working Mother

Yarden Frankl, Senior Editor, HonestReporting.com

Jon Friedman, Media Columnist, MarketWatch

Chuck Jaffe, Senior Columnist, MarketWatch

Jennifer Lewis-Hall, author and former CNBC correspondent

Devin Leonard, Senior Writer, Fortune

Marshall Loeb, Columnist, MarketWatch

Charles C. Mann, Freelance Writer

Cait Murphy, Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine

Paul Pflug, Co-Founder, Principal Communications Group

Tahl Raz, President & Editor, Jewcy.com

David Schlesinger, Global Managing Editor, Reuters

Shawn Tully, Senior Writer, Fortune Magazine

Nina Utne, Editor at Large, UTNE

David Willis, California Correspondent, BBC

Betty Wong, Managing Editor, Reuters America

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NewsBios to Name Top 100 Business Journalists and Business Journalist of the Year

NewsBios, the exclusive source for in-depth biographical profiles on the nation’s most influential journalists, will once again name the Top 100 Business Journalists of the year, as well as a Business Journalist of the Year.

NewsBios actively monitors the performance of more than 7,000 business and financial journalists, noting their professional accomplishments as well as pertinent developments in their personal lives.

Since 1987, the service has identified those individual reporters and editors who rise to the top of their profession.  In addition to its previous Top 100 and Business Journalist of the Year recognitions, NewsBios has also annually presented the 30 Under 30 honors to outstanding journalists under the age of thirty.  NewsBios also administers the Business News Luminaries Awards, a financial journalism hall-of-fame that pays tributes to veteran journalists, both living and deceased.

Previous recipients of the NewsBios Business Journalist of the Year recognition include:

Neil F. Budde, founding editor, The Wall Street Journal.com

John W. Huey, Jr., then managing editor of FORTUNE

Andrew Serwer, then editor at large of FORTUNE and a CNN contributor

Bill Sing, then business editor, the Los Angeles Times

Paul E. Steiger, then managing editor of The Wall Street Journal

Robert Thomson, then U.S. managing editor of The Financial Times.

Bona fide members of the news media and public relations professions are invited to submit their nominations for both the Top 100 and Business Journalist of the Year to NewsBios for consideration.  Suggestions should be emailed to Top100@newsbios.com. The deadline is December 14, 2007.

The complete list of the Top 100 and a profile of the Business Journalist of the Year will be posted here in January 2008.

PHOTO:  Paul E. Steiger receives his Business Journalist of the Year award from Dean Rotbart, founder and executive editor of NewsBios.

Esteemed Pentagon Writer on Leave
 

One of The Wall Street Journal’s most frequent Page One bylines will be missing from the paper for the next year. Defense Department reporter Greg Jaffe is on a one-year book leave to work on The Palace War, which will focus on four generals who have proven most influential in the conduct of the Iraq war.

Mr. Jaffe, who originally joined Dow Jones in 1995 as a reporter for the now defunct Southeast Journal, has been on the Pentagon beat since 2000. He will be co-authoring the book, to be published by Crown, with The New York Times Pentagon reporter David S. Cloud. The subjects are generals John Abizaid, George Casey, Peter Chiarelli and  David Petraeus.

Mr. Jaffe has traveled to Afghanistan and Iraq several times since 2000 where he has been embedded with the troops, an experience he says has given him a better understanding of the military.

In 2005 he won the Raymond Clapper Award for Washington reporting specifically for stories that looked at how the troops were equipped for battle in Iraq. Mr. Jaffe was also part of a team of Journal reporters who won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their stories that explored U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era.

Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Jaffe grew up in Northern Virginia, is married and has two children.

To obtain Mr. Jaffe's complete NewsBio for free, please email us at freeprofile@newsbios.com and include your name and affiliation. There is no obligation and no purchase required.

For more information, contact the NewsBios Customer Service center at 1-866-NEWS-070, ext. 2.  

Journalists Making Headlines

Former NYT Reporter Struggles Post Internet Sex Trade Story (New York Magazine)

FT nabs WSJ, Bloomberg and Sunday Telegraph hires (Guardian)

Author, tech reporter Joins BusinessWeek.com as Columnist (BusinessWire)

Atlanta Mag Started By Former WSJ Staffers Folds (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Longtime Newsweek Editor in Chief Giving Up Title (Portfolio.com)

Fox News’ Neil Cavuto Comments on Content, Launch and Cramer (paidContent.org)

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These WSJ Reporters Most Prolific in September 2007
 

Six months ago Dana Cimilluca joined The Wall Street Journal from Bloomberg News to help keep watch on deal making for the paper, and the beat continues to prove a busy one. He was one of 10 reporters in September who wrote, co-wrote or contributed to 15 or more bylined articles.

Cimilluca, who along with the paper’s M&A czar Dennis K. Berman authors the publication’s Deal Journal blog, led all Journal contributors for the domestic edition of the paper.

Since October 1, 2006, NewsBios has tracked each and every reporter whose byline appears in The Wall Street Journal – including reporters for sibling news organizations such as MarketWatch and Dow Jones News Service. The NewsBios databases note each reporter’s total byline count, location of bylines, and “byline points” based upon a proprietary weighting system to separate ordinary bylines from high-visibility bylines.

Looking at byline count alone, others joining Cimilluca as top producers for September 2007 were European M&A reporter Jason Singer, Money & Investing reporter Alistair MacDonald, banking and financial institutions reporter Carrick Mollenkamp and Dow Jones Newswires reporters Rob Curran, Karen Talley and Yvonne Ball. Rounding out the top 10 were Detroit reporters Jeffrey McCracken and John D. Stoll, who serves as bureau chief, as well as Washington-based Neil King Jr.

While comparing bylines isn't the only measure of influence for reporters at a news organization, it is an important component. Editors at most major news organizations keep track of similar byline statistics, which can be used in job performance reviews and determining beat assignments.

Note:  NewsBios' byline databases are based on actual page-by-page counts of the Monday through Saturday print edition and may reflect regional variations. Our counts are also subject to unintentional human error.

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NewsBios 30 Under 30 Award Honorees

NewsBios is pleased to announce the 2007 NewsBios 30 Under 30 Award recipients. This select group of journalists showcases today’s up-and-coming business and financial reporters and editors.

NewsBios first honored young journalists for their exceptional work in 1987 and has since bestowed the awards in 18 of the past 20 years. (The awards were not issued in either 2005 or 2006).

The 2007 list includes 20 first-time winners and reflects top talents at 18 different news organizations. The journalists, who had to have been under 30 years of age as of December 31, 2006, were nominated by their editors and peers for their professional contributions in calendar year 2006.

Because of the large number of outstanding nominees for 2007, making this year’s list was extremely difficult and many high-caliber journalists had to be eliminated to keep the list to 30.

Among the youngest in the Class of 2007 is Charles Forelle, who along with his Wall Street Journal colleagues James Bandler, Mark Maremont and Steve Stecklow, has already received several 2007 journalism citations, including winning a Pulitzer Prize.

The 2007 list also includes veterans Adrienne Carter of BusinessWeek and Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times. Both are five-time winners who likely would have been seven-time recipients if the 30 Under 30 Award had been bestowed in 2005 and 2006.

Additional details will be posted here shortly.

The 2007 NewsBios 30 Under 30 Winners

Supercharge Your Media Relations!
Dean Rotbart, founder and executive editor of NewsBios, will offer his next live two-day course on strategic media relations on January 16th and 17, 2008. 
     The course will be held at the amazing 22-acre Wizard Academy campus in the foothills of Austin, Texas.  For more details, click here.



 

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