Patterson Foundation fellowship winners
Looking at the list of Patterson Foundation fellowship winners, it’s nice to see that a couple of them are going to spend the next year documenting details of a business story. Susan Reed, a freelance writer from Cambridge, Mass., is going to spend her time researching “activism in the corporation.” Ken Ward, a reporter for […]
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 […]
Still a classic, 16 years later
I was on the Power Reporting web site earlier today looking for something when I ran across Bill Dedmon‘s series in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1988 about how banks would not lend money in this supposed city Too Busy to Hate to consumers who lived in predominantly minority neighborhoods. The series was called the Color […]
Writing the same story from different angles
One of the interesting discussions at the American Press Institute business editors’ seminar that I attended earlier this week was how the same story could be written in different ways but still have an angle that was of interest to readers. The discussion leader was John Edwards III, no relation to the vice presidential candidate […]
Cleveland's unique Monday biz section
One of the business editors I visited with at the American Press Institute on Tuesday runs the biz section at the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. I was very impressed with the Monday business section, which is entirely written in alternative story formats from typical inverted pyramind stories that we read every day. For example, there is a […]
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., and a couple of others. OK, go ahead and call me a geek for reading business sections on the weekend, but […]
On starting a new business magazine
Someone sent this to me recently. It’s a short opinion piece written by Randall Rothenberg of Ad Age to the person starting the new business magazine for Conde Nast. And it ran a couple of months ago in Crain’s New York Business. I am posting it here because I think that it nicely synthesizes the […]
Criticism of New York Times' economics coverage
The New York Times has taken it on the chin lately with having to deal with Judith Miller backlash. Now, the Gray Old Lady’s coverage of economics is being criticized. See Mickey Kaus’ story here. More criticism of the Times’ economics coverage can be found here.
Whither Regulation Fair Disclosure?
Regulation Fair Disclosure, or Reg FD as it is commonly called, was enacted more than five years ago by the SEC to require companies to provide information to all investors at the same time. As a result, it opened up conference calls and analyst/investor meetings to the media in the form of Web casts and […]
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 about this shopping event, which equates to Black Friday for the retailers. Here are some of those stories: 1. Reuters story […]
