Boston biz reporter having difficulty getting public records
Colman Herman of Commonwealth magazine reports about the difficulties facing Boston Globe business reporter Todd Wallack in obtaining severance agreements of state employees from the governor’s office. Herman writes, “In an appeal filed with Secretary of State William Galvin’s office, Wallack seeks unredacted versions of the documents, noting the settlements involved millions of taxpayer dollars. […]
Boise paper's business magazine launches
David Staats, the editor that oversees business coverage at the Idaho Statesman, writes about what the paper hopes to accomplish with the launching of its new weekly business magazine, Business Insider. Staats writes, “Our goal with Business Insider is to arm you, the business-minded reader, with vital facts and insights to better understand your situation, […]
Ask Talking Biz News…about finding information on tax havens
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Here is the another installment of Ask Talking Biz News, where a business reporter or editor asks a question related to reporting or writing about a business news topic. Here is the question: I spoke with you in 2009 when investigating an affordable housing nonprofit that had gone bankrupt after the […]
The biz journalism word of the year is Greece
The Wall Street Journal reported an analysis of the news it published in 2010 reveals an array of words and terms that starred in this year’s coverage – many of which rarely appeared in 2009, if at all. Covering topics ranging from volcanoes and other disasters to sports and financial events, fashion trends and automobile […]
A Christmas present for business journalists: SEC doc iPad app
Dave Friedman, editor in chief of Wall St. Watchdog, reviews the new iPad application that allows people to read SEC filings and make notes of important disclosures, a great gift for any hardcore business journalist. Friedman writes, “This app claims to have two purposes: (1) act as a central repository for all SEC filings in […]
How Bloomberg News got NetApp earnings before others
Shira Ovide of The Wall Street Journal reports Thursday how Bloomberg News was able to obtain NetApp’s earnings on Wednesday an hour before everyone else. Ovide writes, “Bloomberg News flashed out fiscal second-quarter numbers and guidance from NetApp before 3 p.m. this afternoon, after the news outlet said it found the Web address where NetApp […]
Covering the tech beat
Michael Arrington, the founder and editor of the technology news site TechCrunch, writes in the latest issue of Inc. magazine about how he does his job. Arrington writes, “If news is breaking, I want to be on it. We break more big stories than everyone else combined in tech — and that’s not prebriefed news […]
Stylebook takes on financial terms
Merrill Perlman, the former head of the New York Times copy desk who is now an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University, reviews the new “Financial Writer’s Stylebook” for the Columbia Journalism Review. Perlman writes, “Written by Chris Roush and Bill Cloud, both professors at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, it’s a […]
Explaining the world to readers
Katie Johnston Chase, a business reporter at the Boston Globe, talks about how her job is to explain the world to readers. Johnston Chase covers travel, tourism and workplace issues.
CNBC's Kate Kelly performs basic journalism and pisses off investors
CNBC reporter Kate Kelly is a former Wall Street Journal reporter, so we can assume she knows how to report a story. Earlier this week, she did just that, reporting the names of investors who met secretly in Manhattan to plan their strategy to sell their bad mortgages back to the banks. How she got […]
