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Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Articles in The Economist are usually a better investment of my time. I was originally introduced to the magazine by a teacher in high school, but I've come to learn that many other people weren't as fortunate. https://www.economist.com/

My tip for reading The Economist (I have a paper subscription) is to always start with the obituary. Their obituaries are wonderful.

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Articles in The Economist are usually a better investment of my time. I was originally introduced to the magazine by a teacher in high school, but I've come to learn that many other people weren't as fortunate. https://www.economist.com/

I find it to slavishly neoliberal.

I used to read The Economist, then in the build up to 2008 when according to them all the growth was actual real growth, the system was fine, and banks knew what they were doing.

I no longer read it.

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Oh, are they finally apologizing (or providing proof for) their story The Big Hack about chips the size of a grain of rice China puts in computers made by Dell and Apple and others?

No? Not a word about it?

It’s almost like they’re continuing to pretend that their giant journalistic screwup doesn’t exist.

Don’t care. ‘Are articles are too long’. How about yours articles are untrustworthy?

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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>enterprise stories What is an enterprise story?

I didn't know either so looked it up: 'Enterprise journalism is reporting that is not generated by news or a press release, but rather generated by a reporter or news organization based on developed sources.'

That makes sense because he was in the memo balancing the development of sources (which can lead to enterprise stories) against the investment of writing ones that don't seem to be panning out well.

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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post #7

Articles in The Economist are usually a better investment of my time. I was originally introduced to the magazine by a teacher in high school, but I've come to learn that many other people weren't as fortunate. https://www.economist.com/

My tip for reading The Economist (I have a paper subscription) is to always start with the obituary. Their obituaries are wonderful.

Ann Wroe is an exceptional writer. My favorite obituary from that section is of a free diver: https://www.economist.com/obituary/2015/08/15/the-deepest-di....

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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post #7

Articles in The Economist are usually a better investment of my time. I was originally introduced to the magazine by a teacher in high school, but I've come to learn that many other people weren't as fortunate. https://www.economist.com/

The economist has several things going for it. For one, being a weekly newspaper they only write about things that are worth knowing about a week later. Second, they’d rather have a longer piece with analysis, generalization, and tying Disparate things together than a simple “this is what happened”

They are also owned by a foundation so are less subject to the vicissitudes of the markets.

The Economist has its limitations, blind spots, specific ideology, and such as well. But it’s well worth the read; I have not missed an issue since early 1985

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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post #7

Articles in The Economist are usually a better investment of my time. I was originally introduced to the magazine by a teacher in high school, but I've come to learn that many other people weren't as fortunate. https://www.economist.com/

I find it to slavishly neoliberal. I used to read The Economist, then in the build up to 2008 when according to them all the growth was actual real growth, the system was fine, and banks knew what they were doing. I no longer read it.

I have the opposite experience. For example, they had a cover page article a about the global housing bubble in 2005.

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2005/06/16/in-come-...

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Good and concrete advice from the chief editor:

"A good rule of thumb is that stories should either be shorter than 400 words or longer than 900. You either have a simple news story or a single observation (in which case go short) or a yarn or a chance to explain something very complicated (in which case go long"

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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post #7

Articles in The Economist are usually a better investment of my time. I was originally introduced to the magazine by a teacher in high school, but I've come to learn that many other people weren't as fortunate. https://www.economist.com/

I find it to slavishly neoliberal. I used to read The Economist, then in the build up to 2008 when according to them all the growth was actual real growth, the system was fine, and banks knew what they were doing. I no longer read it.

I find it to slavishly neoliberal.

That (or in its older guise, free-trade principles) is literally a founding premise of the newspaper:

PROSPECTUS: of a weekly paper, to be published every Saturday, and to be called THE ECONOMIST, which will contain ... First.—ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day—political events—and parliamentary discussions; and particularly to all such as relate immediately to revenue, commerce, and agriculture; or otherwise affect the material interests of the country....

https://www.economist.com/unknown/1843/08/05/prospectus

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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>enterprise stories What is an enterprise story?

There’s a field called enterprise journalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_journalism

Wonder if the Bloomberg platform defines enterprise stories like this. It might be different, anyone know?

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