I suck when it comes to picking stocks
Today was the last day of the semester for my Economics Reporting class, which I teach every fall. As the final project in the class, each of the students has to “buy” a $10,000...
Tagged: Commentary
European and Asian editions of BusinessWeek bite the dust
BusinessWeek, the largest business magazine published in the world, is cutting back. The New York-based magazine, which got a new editor earlier this year, announced that it was cutting its European and Asian editions...
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....
What's wrong with business journalism education?
At the American Press Institute seminar I am attending today, along with a dozen business editors from publications throughout North America, I heard some feedback about what our universities and colleges are doing wrong...
Reynolds Center survey of business editors
Today at an American Press Institute workshop for business editors in Reston, Va., the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism presented some interesting research on business section content. Here is a summary...
More criticism of holiday retail coverage
More criticism of holiday retail coverage can be found at www.boingboing.com in an essay by Dale Dougherty, who notes that many retail reporters simply accept as fact what is given them by the National...
Why the fascination with newspaper circulation data?
I spent part of my weekend examing a week’s worth of business sections for about eight newspapers from across the country. They were the newspapers in San Jose, Cleveland, San Francisco, Laredo, Waterbury, Conn.,...
Cutbacks at Chicago Tribune
According to a memo posted on the Romenesko site from Anne Marie Lipinski, the Chicago Tribune editor, the largest paper in the Midwest is cutting back on its business coverage, among other things, to...
Another business story busted
I woke up Monday morning to a breathless report on NBC-TV’s “Today” show about Cyber Monday being the biggest online shopping day of the year. Later in the day, I saw other online reports...
Contradictory stories
Very rarely in business journalism do you see an instance of one prominent media outlet reporting on a business story and then another prominent media outlet reporting on the same story but essentially saying...
