SABEW adds columnist category to BEST in BUSINESS
SABEW has added a new category to its annual Best in Business contest. They are now opening it up for columnists. A student category was added last year. The column category will break down into the same circulation divisions as its breaking news, enterprise and projects categories. There also will be an additional category for […]
Attending annual meetings
December is not the prime annual meeting and proxy season. That’s typically in March and April, when most companies hold their annual meetings. In the past, many business journalists or their newspapers would purchase one share of stock for all of the local public companies so that they could attend. But that practice has lapsed […]
Strong business journalism on TV
The winners of the 2006 duPont-Columbia University Broadcast News Awards included two business journalism pieces. They are: 1. CNBC for The Age of Wal-Mart: Inside America’s Most Powerful Company A 2-hour documentary about the corporate strategies of Wal-Mart Reporter David Faber wove a comprehensive story about the tremendous growth and frugal corporate philosophy of the […]
Credentials for business reporters
This blog argues that the way to improve the quality of journalism, including economics journalism, is to have some sort of credentialing system. Specifically, it states: “Another possible response is improved journalistic credentialling. Why don’t all journalists have the same sorts of credentials that TV meteorologists do? There should be credentials in economics reporting, health […]
Test SABEW's new contest application system
This Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005, SABEW needs help in testing our new online entry registration process for the 2006 Best in Business contest. It’s worth looking at. It’s pretty cool and could eventually pare its data-entry expenses. From 11 a.m. To 1 p.m. CENTRAL TIME on Wednesday, could you please click on to the link […]
NYSSCPA awards competition
Time to start digging out those clips from the past year. The contest season is almost upon us. Here is the first one: The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants has announced its annual Excellence in Financial Journalism Award competition to recognize reporters from the national and local media who contribute to a […]
Economics journalism from an Indian perspective
I found this today on the blog Indus Churning: “Economic journalism is an island of high wages and returns. It services the interests of the proprietors, not the interests of the millions of investors. It supports globalisation which serves the major economic powers. In the event, this promotes foreign MNCs and the interests of the […]
On starting a new business magazine
Someone sent this to me recently. It’s a short opinion piece written by Randall Rothenberg of Ad Age to the person starting the new business magazine for Conde Nast. And it ran a couple of months ago in Crain’s New York Business. I am posting it here because I think that it nicely synthesizes the […]
Whither Regulation Fair Disclosure?
Regulation Fair Disclosure, or Reg FD as it is commonly called, was enacted more than five years ago by the SEC to require companies to provide information to all investors at the same time. As a result, it opened up conference calls and analyst/investor meetings to the media in the form of Web casts and […]
Business stories from Northwestern students
Northwestern University’s Medill News Service posts its business stories from its students online. You can find them here. I think this is a great idea, and I wish other schools that teach business journalism, including my own, did this. It gives the students exposure, and it allows media outlets looking for potential hires to scan […]
