John Carney

All is Not Rosy for Rupe: Layoffs at WSJ? News Corp Downgraded - Posted January 30, 2009
Much of the bad news this week has focused on The New York Times, but all is not well over at the Wall Street Journal. Portfolio is reporting that the newsroom will be hit by cuts next week, which may total up to 50 persons (depending who is offered/takes a... [FishBowlNY]

Merry Christmas! Or Everything Old is New Again - Posted December 24, 2008
They don't call them classics for nothing! Twice this week we've noticed writers comparing storylines from our favorite Christmas movies to the current economic crisis. First in last week's Times where Wendell Jamieson noted that in real life George Bailey could have been jailed(!) for losing all of Bedford... [FishBowlNY]

News Corp. Switches Stock Exchanges - Posted December 17, 2008
Apparently despite News Corp.'s plummeting stock value they are still a desirable to Wall Street! The Times reported today that News Corp. has switched its listing to NASDAQ from the NYSE amid accusations from the NYSE that NASDAQ had "bought the listing with a significant advertising commitment." We are... [FishBowlNY]

The Great Depression 2.0: What's in a Name? - Posted December 12, 2008
Needless to say things are really bad right now. Everywhere. And considering that the auto bailout just fell apart in the Senate last night we suspect things are about to get worse. But what is about to get worse exactly? At a party the other night we... [FishBowlNY]

Sharing is Caring! NYT.com Launches 'Times Extra' - Posted December 4, 2008
Those of you who get your New York Times online — and 99.99% of the time that includes us — may have noticed something different when you clicked on the homepage this morning. At first we thought it was just an extra level of advertising (turns out that was the... [FishBowlNY]

NYT Co. Stock Falls to Lowest Point in Decades - Posted November 20, 2008
Last week at the Time Person of the Year luncheon Suze Orman cautioned the audience not to get their hopes up on days when the stock market rallied because it was not a sign that things were getting better. No fear of drawing that conclusion this week! Yesterday the... [FishBowlNY]

Nick Denton: Doom-Mongering the Future of Media - Posted November 12, 2008
Never one to let things lie Nick Denton held a "doom-mongering" summit of sorts at Gawker headquarters last night apparenty feeling that it was time for a "reality check" (more like a brutal intervention of sorts, actually) regarding how this economic downturn will affect the media world. The short version... [FishBowlNY]

John Carney Updates Us On the Not So Wonderful Life of the Financial Crisis Bailout - Posted October 23, 2008
Just because it is going to take an alien invasion or some such to knock the election off the front pages for the next two weeks does not mean that Wall St isn't still going down in flames. It is. Big ones. This morning saw the return of... [FishBowlNY]

The Ticker: CNBC, FBN, DAG... - Posted October 15, 2008
> Clusterstock's John Carney writes about an uncomfortable exchange this morning on CNBC's Squawk Box, when Joe Kernen implied Byron Wein was a "dinosaur." Also mentioned — apparently an "extraordinarily attractive young woman" is dreaming about Kernen. > Chadwick Matlin of the new Slate site, The Big Money, spent all day... [TVNewser]

The End is Nigh! We Liveblog Our Last Debate Tonight - Posted October 15, 2008
Hard to believe, but the eighteen-month, fifty debate, liveblog extravaganza is about to come to an end. And none too soon if you ask us! If you can still stand it, and/or, are looking for another fun evening of the "my friends" drinking game, join us here around 9pm... [FishBowlNY]

Today in the Stockmarket: Monday Monday, Can't Trust That Day? - Posted October 13, 2008
So! These were the headlines that greeted us a short time ago when we exited the Time Summit and were able to check the state of world affairs. Looks good, no? Market is up. Websites are running pictures of smiling stockmarketers. Phew! Or is it?... [FishBowlNY]

The Dow Crashes, The NYT.com Goes Down, We Chat With Clusterstock's John Carney - Posted October 9, 2008
Time was, not so long ago, that our G-chat conversations primarily revolved around last night's activities and tonight's plans. No more! Nowadays they look something like this: At which point we clicked on to the NYT homepage only to discover it had gone down! Cue actual panic. *Update: It's... [FishBowlNY]

Tonight! We Liveblog the Second to Last Presidential Debate Ever* - Posted October 7, 2008
Once again FBNY will be liveblogging tonight's second Presidential debate along with Rachel Sklar, John Carney, Ana Marie Cox, Rex Sorgatz and numerous special guests presuming they are able to log on. Those of you who tuned in for the VP debate liveblog last week will remember that Coveritlive, the... [FishBowlNY]

Rupert Murdoch Bids a Fond Farewell to Steve Dunleavy - Posted October 2, 2008
The New York Post's Steve Dunleavy long goodbye continued last night at a party in the theater district. The New York Observer's John Carney (he was moonlighting, apparently) caught up (snuck in?) with the festivities just in time to catch Rupert Murdoch toast his longtime employee. "Your whole career defies description,"... [FishBowlNY]

Going Live Pre-Debate - Posted October 2, 2008
The live blog is back! TVNewser will be live blogging (using CoverItLive) the pre-debate coverage tonight, from 7-9pmET. Come stop by in the run up to what is sure to be one of the most talked about debates. At 9pmET, you can head over to FishbowlNY for the debate live blog, with... [TVNewser]

One Last Bit of Pre-Debate Palin Before the Live-Blogging Begins - Posted October 2, 2008
Tonight's Palin-Biden VP debate may be the most-watched VP debate ever, actually, we hazard a guess there is a chance it could be the most watched debate period -- who could have imagined twelve months ago that this is where we would be?! We suspect tonight is either going to... [FishBowlNY]

The Bailout That Wasn't! An Expert Tells Us Whether or Not to Panic - Posted September 29, 2008
So in the midst of our Googling the local soup kitchens (kidding! our bank account, such as it is, looks very much the same as it did 10 days ago, i.e. small..but it's always good to be prepared) we thought now might be a good time to check in with our... [FishBowlNY]

The Bailout That Wasn't! An Expert Tells Us Whether or Not to Panic - Posted September 29, 2008
So in the midst of our Googling the local soup kitchens (kidding! our bank account, such as it is, looks very much the same as it did 10 days ago, i.e. small..but it's always good to be prepared) we thought now might be a good time to check in with our... [FishBowlNY]

Debate Liveblog! With Rachel Sklar, John Carney, and Glynnis MacNicol - Posted September 26, 2008
Welcome to FBNY's first ever presidential debate liveblog! Hooray technology (and please bear with us while we figure it out). We are joined tonight by Rachel Sklar, FBNY's numbers man John Carney, myself, and TVNewser's Steve Krakauer. Let the debating begin. ... [FishBowlNY]

Debate Liveblog! With Rachel Sklar, John Carney, and Glynnis MacNicol - Posted September 26, 2008
Welcome to FBNY's first ever presidential debate liveblog! Hooray technology (and please bear with us while we figure it out). We are joined tonight by Rachel Sklar, FBNY's numbers man John Carney, myself, and TVNewser's Steve Krakauer. Let the debating begin. ... [FishBowlNY]

The Wall St. Bailout: Is it Really a Good Idea to Give the Administration All the Purse Strings? - Posted September 23, 2008
It wasn't the New York Times headlines that gave us a fright this morning so much as NPR news. To paraphrase the segment we tuned into, this $700 million bailout proposal (it's actually only three pages long) that is currently hurtling its way through Congress (deadline Friday), if it is... [FishBowlNY]

Should the Front Page of NYT.com Be Giving Us a Panic Attack? - Posted September 17, 2008
The homepage of the New York Times is scaring us. Not surprisingly we're not entirely clear on the details, but if the government just stepped in in order to bail out AIG isn't that supposed to make things better? This graph does not look better, which begs the question,... [FishBowlNY]

We Want What the Carney's are Having! - Posted August 7, 2008
Whatever Mr. and Mrs. Carney were feeding their kids it seems to have worked! Via FishbowlDC comes word that Eagle Publishing will continue to publish Robert Novak's Evans-Novak Political Report under the leadership of senior reporter Timothy P. Carney. Carney was apparently a protege of Novak's; in his 2007... [FishBowlNY]

DealBook vs. DealBreaker: We All Have Truths, Are Mine the Same as Yours? - Posted July 11, 2008
As a general rule we tend to steer clear of stories dealing Wall St. or finance because we know next to nothing about either. However, after glancing at the homepage of the New York Times a number of times today it became apparent even to us that things are really... [FishBowlNY]