Saving Business Journalism

Stanley Bing has some thoughts on how to save business journalism. I think he's onto something. An excerpt:

NO: Prognostications from economists and security analysts. With the winnowing-away of huge swaths of reporters and editors, a lot of newspapers, magazines and websites now confine themselves almost exclusively to reporting on the reports of those whose job it is to issue reports. Sometimes these guys are right. Sometimes they’re wrong. They’re seldom very interesting to read about. But it fills space, particularly the more outlandish and opinionated ones.

Execupundit note: My recommendation would be that they ship reporters into the field to talk with and do stories on people in small to mid-level businesses and that more attention be paid to reporting on the gap between philosophy and actual achievement; i.e., the factors that made a difference. Too many articles talk about A and C but leave out B. The reporters need to ask the questions that a business exec would ask. That could really reach an audience.

Which business publications do you look forward to reading? In my case, it's The Wall Street Journal. Some others are very, very good, but I don't lean back in awe at how good they are.