Business journalism internships offered through Reynolds Center
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced Monday the news organizations that will host its summer 2009 business journalism internships for university students. Host organizations for the 10-week paid internships are:Â CNBC (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.), Dow Jones Newswires (New York), Fortune, Los Angeles Times, MarketWatch (San Francisco), Reuters America (New York), The […]
Covering banks during a time of financial crisis
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a conference call Wednesday at noon EST for reporters on covering banks and the banking industry during the current economic upheaval. The panelists on the call will be Drew DeSilver, banking and public companies reporter at the Seattle Times; Bernie Kohn, investigations editor at the Baltimore […]
Not much interest in studying financial journalism at Columbia
Bob Garfield of the NPR show “On the Media” interviewed Columbia University adjunct professor Cheryl Strauss Einhorn and found that interest in learning about business and financial journalism is low among her students. In fact, this year only four students enrolled in her class. “This year they weren’t even able to drum up enough interest […]
Bank reporting tip: Cull FDIC "call reports" for signs of failing banks
Sean Sposito, a University of Missouri journalism student attending the fall Society of American Business Editors and Writers workshop in Kansas City, filed this report on using FDIC documents to search for failing banks. Here is Sposito’s report: A bank failure here in Kansas City several months ago was reason enough to take heed of what Susan […]
Energy policy debated at SABEW conference
Steve Everly and Karen Dillon of the Kansas City Star write Tuesday about how experts debated the nation’s energy policy at the fall Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference. Everly and Dillon write, “But Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer found some flaws in Pickens’ plan. “For example, Schafer questioned whether it was wise […]
Covering the ag beat
Sean Sposito, a student at the University of Missouri, covered a session Tuesday morning at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers fall conference in Kansas City on agriculture economics and filed this report: The speakers were Missouri professors Jan Duave and Wyatt Thompson. The pupils: business reporters from publications across the country. They […]
Webcasts from SABEW fall conference next week will be available
A live webcast of some of the country’s most influential business leaders offering their perspective and vision on key issues facing our economy will be available to journalists and the general public on Sept. 8-9 through the following link: www.kauffman.org/sabew The webcast link will be available for 30 days following the event. The series of […]
Ag secretary to speak at fall SABEW conference
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer will speak Monday afternoon, Sept. 8 on the debate over “green” fuels at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers annual fall workshop in Kansas City, the organization announced Wednesday. Schafer joins the previously announced lineup of speakers, including NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer, Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant talking about future plans for […]
Conference will focus on investigative business reporting skills
Top business reporters will share tips, insight and strategies for investigating companies, corporations, government contractors and much more when Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Lorana Sullivan Foundation host a two-day workshop in New York City on Sept. 20-21. Gain the tools you need to dig into tax scandals, the foreclosure crisis, corporate secrets and […]
Going to China soon? Business journalist? Then read on
Gregg Fields, the former Miami Herald business journalist who is going to China to teach business journalism at Tsinghua University in Beijing, is looking for business reporters who plan on visiting the country in the next 12 months to come speak to his classes. “Tsinghua is a very prestigious school and is built on the […]
