Labor reporting
I had a call today from a freelance writer working on a piece on labor reporting for Journalism Education Today. She wanted to know what journalism schools were doing to prepare students to write...
Tagged: Coverage
Reuters journalists reject new contract
Things don’t look good for the talks between Reuters and its business journalists. The latest contract offer was rejected by an overwhelming — almost unanimous — margin. See the story here.
Newsweek's Allan Sloan talks business
If you don’t know who Allan Sloan is, then you’re not serious about business journalism. As the Wall Street editor for Newsweek, Sloan is one of the most readable and entertaining journalists when it...
Just got back from South Carolina
And here is a report about my workshop at the South Carolina Press Association: Those in attendance did not know: 1. What a Uniform Commercial Code filing was and how it can be used;...
Baltimore Sun update
Remember when I posted last week about the Baltimore Sun architecture critic who was investing in homes in neighborhoods he was writing about? The Sun is apparently making him divest of those properties before...
Dallas business reporting
I spent Wednesday in Dallas doing a workshop for the Reynolds Center and got to visit with some of the business desk at the Morning News. One of the assistant business editors there is...
More on Saturday WSJ
If you want to read what others had to say about the Saturday edition of the Wall Street Journal, you can read the New York Times article here. Just remember that you have to...
Weekend Wall Street Journal
If you want to see the front page of the new Wall Street Journal Weekend edition, you can click here to see a pdf file. It’s quite stunning as far as the layout. If...
The Wall Street Journal this weekend
I’m very interested in seeing what the first Saturday edition of the Wall Street Journal looks like tomorrow when it comes out. I’m curious about the mixture of hard news stories from today’s business...
Reporting on yourself as a business
Few media publications, including business magazines and newspapers, write about themselves. When I worked at BusinessWeek, we never wrote about McGraw-Hill, our parent company. The Wall Street Journal never writes about the behind-the-scenes business...
