ACBJ chairman: Business journalism has hit bottom
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE American City Business Journals chairman Ray Shaw told business journalists Monday night that he believes that the layoffs and cutbacks in business journalism have hit bottom and that the industry will begin to rebound by the end of the year. Shaw noted that his company, which owns and operates 40 weekly […]
SABEW elects new board members
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The Society of American Business Editors and Writers elected six new board members and one returning board member at its meeting Monday. Newly elected board members are Los Angeles Times assistant business editor Sharon Bernstein, McClatchy Newspapers national economics correspondent Kevin Hall, New Orleans Times-Picayune business editor Kim Quillen, Reuters reporter Walden […]
Pulitzer winner Berzon talks about covering construction deaths
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Alexandra Berzon began working for the Las Vegas Sun as a business reporter in 2007. She has also worked as a reporter for technology magazine Red Herring, the Anchorage Daily News and the San Antonio Express-News. Berzon was the primary reporter for the Las Vegas Sun’s construction deaths on the Strip […]
Fast Company, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg win Overseas awards
Business magazines Fast Company and BusinessWeek, along with news service Bloomberg News, are among the winners in the annual Overseas Press Club Awards. Richard Behar of Fast Company won the best magazine reporting from abroad award for his story about China’s increasing economic influence in Africa. The judges state, “Behar spent months on the road in Mozambique, […]
Advice for biz journalists on how to win a Pulitzer
Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review gives out his own “Audies” — named after CJR’s The Audit blog — for the top business journalism of 2008 and also offers some advice for business reporters on how to impress the Pulitzer judges next year. Starkman writes, “But it might be more productive to think of […]
Why no Pulitzer for coverage of the financial meltdown?
Roy Harris, who authored a book last year about the Pulitzer Prizes and has been a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal for 23 years, answered questions from Washington Post readers Tuesday about Monday’s Pulitzer winners. Here is an excerpt: Evanston, Ill.: Why were there no Pulitzers for financial journalism? Is the Financial […]
How Berzon won the Pulitzer
Marshall Allen of the Las Vegas Sun writes Tuesday about how a reporter for the newspaper, Alexandra Berzon, won a Pulitzer Prize for writing about the high rate of construction deaths on the Strip that led to reforms. Allen writes, “When Berzon was interviewed for a job at the Sun in late 2007, Heikes mentioned […]
Las Vegas biz reporter in shock over Pulitzer win
Ken Ritter of the Associated Press writes Monday night about Las Vegas Sun business reporter Alexandra Berzon, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of unsafe working conditions that led to the death of a dozen construction workers. Ritter writes, “Berzon was at a hearing of Nevada safety regulators when she was summoned back […]
Las Vegas biz reporter wins Pulitzer
Alexandra Berzon, a business reporter for the Las Vegas Sun, won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday in the public service category for her coverage of a high rate of construction deaths on the Las Vegas strip that led to changes in policy and safer working conditions. The paper’s Web site states, “As the Sun pursued […]
Plenty of business journalist finalists in Pulitzers
While there was just one Pulitzer Prize given to business and economics journalism this year, there were at least five finalists from the field of business reporting. The New York Times was a finalist in the public service category for “its comprehensive coverage of the economic meltdown of 2008, setting a standard for depth and sophistication while […]
