Nice to see this kind of enthusiasm
Here is a posting from someone who recently interviewed for a small-town business reporting job. It’s refreshing to see this kind of enthusiasm for someone just getting into the field of business reporting. “It’s a business reporter position for a little paper in Mt. Vernon which is actually north of me (I’m already north of […]
Top 10 NYT mistakes for 2005 includes biz story
The Web site Timeswatch.org posted its top 10 mistakes made by the New York Times in 2005. Checking in at No. 6 was this business story that should have appeared in the business section sometime during the year: #6 Ignoring Air America The local New York Sun reported August 1 on the emerging scandal at […]
Where does a daily paper run its stock story?
Having spent the last three days at my parent’s house in suburban Atlanta, I was able to read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on a regular basis once again. I worked on the business desk there from 1994-97, covering Home Depot and Coke. Not much has changed, but one thing that I did notice was that all […]
Are Big Box retailers fudging some numbers?
If you cover big box retailers — Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target, Costco, etc. — then here is something to think about: These retailers like to report certain numbers to show the strength of their business. And business reporters often use these numbers in stories about these companies. I’m specifically talking about sales per square […]
MarketWatch losing readers?
Business 2.0 has a nice update on the Dow Jones acquisition of the CBS Marketwatch web site, which occurred almost a year ago. Seems that the site has lost a lot of viewers and that Dow Jones, which does not have a good history when it comes to acquisitions, may have overpaid. To read 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 […]
Is there bias in business reporting?
That’s what Fox News business editor Neil Cavuto believes, according to an interview in the Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday. Among Cavuto’s allegations against business reporters are: “With Enron, one bad company quickly became ‘all companies are bad.’ There’s a default thinking that says capitalism is evil.” I’m not sure I agree with that statement. I […]
The Apprentice has a business journalist
Given the Donald’s relationship with a New York Times writer who recently published a book about his operations, I’m surprised to discover that there is a business reporter who is one of the contestants on The Apprentice. Her name is Rebecca Jarvis, and she has posted some of her stories for Crain’s Chicago Business and […]
Ouch!
As a business journalism educator, I think it’s important for those doing the teaching to also be practicing the craft, and I write a monthly sports business column for Business North Carolina magazine in addition to some other business-related writing. So it hurts me to see someone else teaching business journalism at the university level […]
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 stock portfolio of at least five stocks at the beginning of the semester and track it throughout the entire time period, […]
