Wall Street Journal Reporter Who Lost Money In The Markets

I'm lovin' it.

My portfolio has lost a boatload of money in recent weeks, and I couldn't be happier. The reason: This sort of market turmoil scrambles valuations and creates opportunities.

Jonathan Clements
Getting Going Columnist
The Wall Street Journal
November 18, 2007

Business Week Correspondent Multi-tasks Even in His Leisure Time

It's actually getting hard to write about advertising, because most of its still so awful that I don't see it. I began watching Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares last night in my usual manner--taped and 20 minutes into the broadcast so I can blow through the ads. What did I do with the time? I went on Facebook and made my two Scrabble moves in the two games I am playing with friends online.

David Kiley
Senior Correspondent, Detroit
BusinessWeek
November 15, 2007

Do As I Say, Children, Not As I Do - FT Editor

My children aren’t allowed to watch TV at home. They think this is oppressive and unjust. I disagree about the former, but can’t deny the latter, because I watch television all day long at the office.

Chrystia Freeland
US Managing Editor
The Financial Times
November 11, 2007




NYT Pulitzer Prize Winner Didn't Always Avoid the Editor's Sword 

When I worked for [Forbes's Editor Jim Michaels] in the late 1980s and then again in the mid-1990s, he routinely spiked articles that played it safe. (Pity the reader was his refrain as he rejected an article that drew no conclusion.)

Gretchen Morgenson
Business Columnist
The New York Times
October 7, 2007



Business Columnist 'Roughs It' As He Tries Heli-Hiking

It helps to be fit [to participate in heli-hiking], but it’s not an absolute requirement, and it helps to know a little about hiking, but that’s not a prerequisite either.

Other than the experience of the helicopter itself, there isn’t so much as a whiff of danger. (You also don’t have to be rich: not counting the airfare, I paid $2,400 for my trip.) Indeed, too much hiking experience might well be a drawback, since hard-core hikers seem perfectly happy sustaining themselves on beef jerky and sleeping in tents.

Heli-hiking, by contrast, falls into a travel category that the industry calls “luxury adventure.” Which is to say, after a day of semi-roughing it, you get to take a warm shower, eat a good dinner, drink a fine bottle of wine and sleep in a real bed. Myself, I can’t imagine any other way of going about it.

Joe Nocera
Business Columnist
The New York Times
September 9, 2007



Fortune Staffer Consumes $12,168 a Year in Media & Communications

So how much does it cost my family to stay plugged in? Before I get to the actual numbers, a few disclosures. Because I am a journalist who writes about high tech, Fortune pays all the bills related to my Palm Treo 700p smart-phone - roughly $90 a month - plus a few business-related publications (Business Week, Wired, Forbes and Newsweek) and annual online subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal ($99) and (The New York Times Select premium content ($50). When I'm on the road, the magazine pays for the occasional Wi-Fi wireless-connection fee. But other than that, it's up to me.

All told, my monthly subscription nut comes to $863.09. On top of that, I spend $1,812 a year on magazine and newspaper and online services, ranging from satellite radio to NBA League Pass to New York Times crosswords. That's $12,168 a year just for subscriptions. I wish I'd never counted.

Brent Schlender
Editor-at-Large
Fortune
July 11, 2007