Google help for business journalists
Sean Carlson, the news interactive manager for Google, talks about how to better use the website for reporting functions. The example here is using local and regional economic data on Google. Carlson spoke Saturday at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference in Dallas.
SABEW Best in Business award winners share strategy
By Sarah Frier Some of the winners of Best in Business awards explained how they got their stories Friday for the Society for American Business Editors and Writers conference in Dallas. Phil Mattingly of Bloomberg won an award for his stories on the Dodd-Frank act. During an at least 22-hour meeting, Mattingly and a team […]
Comparing mortgage-backed securities to chicken parts
A good business journalist needs to provide steady content to their employer so that they can spend the time to report and write the stories they want to cover in their spare time. That was the advice given Friday by Allan Sloan, the senior editor at large at Fortune magazine and one of the top […]
Fortune’s Sloan speaks
Allan Sloan, the senior editor at large for Fortune magazine, spoke Friday afternoon at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers about how he got his start in business journalism.
Fortune's Sloan speaks
Allan Sloan, the senior editor at large for Fortune magazine, spoke Friday afternoon at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers about how he got his start in business journalism.
Explaining personal finance topics
Larry Ingrassia, the business editor of The New York Times, explains the paper’s personal finance coverage philosophy. Ingrassia was part of a panel on personal finance coverage at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers annual conference.
SEC chair Schapiro: Our core mission compromised
By Sarah Frier The Securities and Exchange Commission doesn’t have the resources or the support to do its job right, said its chairwoman on Friday. “I’m concerned about our core mission,” Mary Schapiro told journalists at the Society of American Business News Editors and Writers conference Friday. “We can’t review all corporate filings the way […]
SABEW conference comes to Dallas this week
Bob Mong, the editor of the Dallas Morning News, writes about the improvements made in business journalism in recent decades as the Society of American Business Editors and Writers comes to his city later this week for its annual conference. Mong writes, “Coverage of business and financial news was once a journalistic backwater, often a […]
Slow job growth in business journalism
Just one out of five business news operations plan to add staffers in 2011, while one out of 12 are cutting positions this year, according to an informal survey of business journalists conducted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Of the newsrooms that are hiring, 75 percent plan to add just one […]
SABEW offering paid trips to pension workshop
Journalists are invited to learn how to cover the nationally contentious issue of public pensions at an all-expenses-paid, three-day seminar conducted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in June through a $40,000 grant provided by the McCormick Foundation. Applications are being received now for up to 20 fellowships that will include airfare, hotel accommodations, […]
