FORBES.COM
Investigative journalist Gary Weiss has started writing the Muckraker column for Forbes.com. The column, which debuted Oct. 17, covers international business and Wall Street. Weiss was a senior writer for BusinessWeek from 1986 to July 2004. He has also worked for Barron’s, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant and news services in Washington. He is the author of Wall Street Versus America and Born to Steal, which uncovered Wall Street’s connection to the Mafia.

FORTUNE
Katie Benner, 212-522-2026, recently announced that she left TheStreet.com to become a personal finance reporter at Fortune magazine. She has also written for CNNMoney.com and spent four years in Beijing writing for the South China Morning Post, Beijing Review, The Economist Group and Xinhau Financial Network. Fortune focuses on management and competition in companies, high-profile business executives, technology and Wall Street.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Brian Womack, 619-448-6325, recently joined Investor’s Business Daily in Los Angeles as its New America Reporter focusing on up-and-coming businesses. Womack was previously a business reporter and technology columnist for the Orange County Business Journal. Investor’s Business Daily is a national daily business newspaper aimed at senior executives, professionals and entrepreneurs, as well as individual and professional investors. The newspaper provides new management and investment ideas and stock data such as industry group rankings, relative strength, earnings per share ranking, volume percentage change and accumulation distribution.

WALL STREET JOUNRAL RADIO
Ray Hoffman will be the new afternoon drive business news anchor for Wall Street Journal Radio beginning Nov. 1. He previously served as the host of the BusinessWeek Business Report radio show. No replacement has been named. He also worked as an assignment editor for BusinessWeek magazine. Wall Street Journal Radio provides hourly business and financial news reports transmitted live via satellite 24 hours daily from the newspaper’s newsroom.

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While I have little respect for fashion, sports and celebrity publicists, do they really know how to develop strategy? Here is an opportunity for fashion publicists.

Eric Leech, writing for StyleCareer.com, wants to interview fashion publicists who don’t mind sharing their experiences (Let me tell you what an ass this designer is), discussing the fashion industry (have I got some gossip for you), ideas on starting a fashion PR firm (let’s steal these clients from our current employer and go out on our own), and describing traits to becoming a successful (Eric, what’s your definition of successful?).

Just the thought of this story makes we want to cringe. But then again, it’s Stylecareer.com.

Oh, almost forgot, Eric’s contact is ejleech(at)comcast.net.

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Interested in helping your company or client interact with the nation’s premier tech journalists and an influential audience of business development executives and VCs? Consider applying to launch a new technology at DEMO 2007, taking place Jan. 30-Feb. 1 in Palm Desert, Calif..

The DEMO conferences are launch pad events for tomorrow’s cutting-edge technologies, catapulting exceptional products to national and international fame. (Palm, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Danger, Skype and TiVo are just a few past demonstrators.) Whether you want media attention, VC money or Fortune 500 customers, DEMO is the place to make the connections your new product needs to succeed.

Because it attracts the best media, venture capitalists, technology business development professionals, and corporate IT professionals, the DEMO conference is a very cost-effective way to accomplish a lot of business, in one convenient place, in a short period of time. DEMO executive attendees have the influence within their organizations to help set policy, make buying decisions, recommend investments, and build partner relationships. Year after year, they attend to see the best new products as they come to market.

To qualify for DEMO, a product must:
· make its public debut at the DEMO conference
· make a significant contribution to the state of the art in its target market
· change the dynamics of the marketplace into which it is introduced
· be backed by a management team capable of delivering the product to market

To learn more about launching at DEMO, and to find the online application form, visit www.demo.com/launch.php.

The deadline for applications is Nov. 10.

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It’s all how you spin things.

“A Chinese government official at a United Nations summit in Athens on internet governance has claimed that no Net censorship exists at all in China. The article includes an exchange by a Chinese government official and a BBC reporter over the blocking of the BBC in China.”

From the article: “I don’t think we should be using different standards to judge China. In China, we don’t have software blocking Internet sites. Sometimes we have trouble accessing them. But that’s a different problem. I know that some colleagues listen to the BBC in their offices from the Webcast. And I’ve heard people say that the BBC is not available in China or that it’s blocked. I’m sure I don’t know why people say this kind of thing. We do not have restrictions at all.”

How do you say Baghdad Bob in Chinese?

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