Biz journalism organization to fund Medill scholarship

The American Society of Business Publication Editors Foundation has launched a $5,000 annual college scholarship program to encourage graduate students to study business journalism. The ASBPE Foundation will offer the scholarship to one student a year at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. ASBPE, a 2,000-member organization of trade-publication editors and others […]

Bloomberg’s O’Kelley hired by Columbia as business journalism professor

Bloomberg News executive editor Winnie O’Kelley has been hired by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as a professor of business journalism. O’Kelley will lead the Business and Economics concentration of the Master of Arts program, which provides mid-career journalists the expertise needed to cover corporations and the economy with sophistication. “Winnie’s knowledge of […]

Dallas Morning News biz reporter Rice leaving for Georgia faculty

Dallas Morning News business editor Paul O’Donnell sent out the following announcement to the staff: Sabriya Rice will be leaving the DMN on July 6 for what can only be described as an amazing opportunity at the University of Georgia. She will become the Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism at the Grady College of […]

Columbia hires Narisetti to run Knight-Bagehot program

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism has hired Raju Narisetti to run its Knight-Bagehot program for business journalists. He replaces Terri Thompson, who retired after running the program for 25 years. The Bagehot program for business journalists was started in 1975 by Steve Shepard, who went on to become editor of BusinessWeek magazine and the founding dean of […]

Wharton to hold session on future of business journalism

The Wharton Seminars for Business Journalism will hold a panel on June 13 in New York on the future of business journalism. The speakers are Wall Street Journal deputy editor Matt Murray, Yahoo Finance editor Andrew Serwer and Fast Company editor Stephanie Mehta. The event celebrates 50 years of the Wharton Seminars. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. at […]

What it’s like to be a Knight-Bagehot fellow

Portland Business Journal reporter Matthew Kish writes what it’s like to be a Knight-Bagehot fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Kish writes, “The backbone of the program is a rigorous course of study. Bagehots basically get carte blanche at the registrar’s office. They can take classes in business, journalism, law or public […]

Kauffman Foundation gives nearly $200,000 to Missouri Business Alert

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has given a grant of nearly $200,000 to Missouri Business Alert, a business news service run by the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. With the $190,700 grant, students working for Missouri Business Alert will travel more to report on underreported business and entrepreneurial stories. The grant will pay for […]

LaRoche hired to teach business journalism at South Carolina

Former Wall Street Journal journalist Michelle LaRoche has been hired as the Baldwin Business and Financial Chair in Journalism at the University of South Carolina. She will join the faculty for the Fall 2018 semester. She has been at Harvard University for the past year working on a master’s degree in higher education. LaRoche was previously The Journal’s […]

Retiring Knight-Bagehot director Thompson honored

Terri Thompson, the longtime director of the Knight-Bagehot business journalism program at Columbia University, was honored Wednesday at a surprise retirement party. Thompson is retiring after 25 years of running the program, which has taught more than 200 mid-career business journalists. Steve Coll, dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, spoke at the event, […]

Columbia names new Knight-Bagehot fellows

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism announced Wednesday 10 Knight-Bagehot Fellows in economics and business journalism for the 2018-2019 academic year. They include journalists from Bloomberg, CNBC, The Denver Post, The New York Times, NPR, The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal. The mid-career fellowships provide full tuition and a living stipend of […]