Thanks for your patience

As we get this new online environment up and running.  Thanks to all of you who alerted us to the e-mail problems.  The blog's address:  bondblogger-AT-sourcemedia-DOT-com should now be working.  Also, let us know if you like the format of this morning's BB piece, distinguishing between the free and subscription-only links...

We look forward to your comments!

The Bond Blogger: What to Expect

More than a century ago, The Bond Buyer was launched by William Shanks.  Hitting the streets at a time of larger-than-life press barons like Horace Greeley and William Randolph Hearst, the infant financial rag fit right in as a reflection of its founder: Broad-minded, sometimes strident, and often uproarious.  Over time, the rules of journalism changed and the paper evolved to what you see today -- an institution known for its objectivity and detachment.

Today, we go back to the future: Welcome to The Bond Blogger.

About the Blogger

Michael Stanton is the Publisher of The Bond Buyer, and the principal author of The Bond Blogger. 

His 12-year career at The Bond Buyer included stints as a reporter in New York covering Wall Street and bond insurance, in Washington, DC covering Federal tax law issues, and as the paper's Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief.  He left the newsroom to obtain an MBA in 2001, and returned in 2003 on the business side of the paper as program manager for The Bond Buyer Conferences.  He was named Publisher in 2005, and is now responsible for both the paper's editorial and business operations.  Feel free to e-mail him with any comments, tips, subscription orders, or advertising reservations.