McGraw Center to focus on long-form, in-depth stories
Jane Sasseen’s investigative business and economic stories have been featured in publications such as BusinessWeek and Yahoo News. At her newest job, she’ll help journalists write their own long-form business pieces. Sasseen became the executive director of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism at City University of New York three weeks ago. […]
Ex-NY Times and CNN biz reporters named Arizona State visiting professors
A former New York Times senior business correspondent and a former CNN Wall Street correspondent will be the Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professors in Business Journalism for the spring semester at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Former Times airline and auto industry reporter Micheline Maynard and former […]
NYTimes biz columnist Carr to teach a Boston U.
David Carr, who writes a column on the media for the Monday business section of The New York Times, has accepted a job teaching at Boston University. He will continue to write for the Times. Marcella Bombardieri of the Boston Globe writes, “Like Mayor Thomas M. Menino, also about to join the BU faculty, Carr […]
Knight-Bagehot now accepting applications for 2014-15
The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University is now accepting applications for the 2014-15 academic year. The program offers qualified journalists the opportunity to enhance their understanding and knowledge of business, economics and finance in a year-long, full-time program administered by the journalism school. Fellows take courses at Columbia’s graduate schools […]
Reynolds picks fellows for biz journalism seminars
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has selected 30 fellows – 16 journalists and 14 professors – for four days of intensive study in business journalism. The fellows will attend separate seminars Jan. 2-5, 2014, at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix. Journalists in the […]
Large increase in students in CUNY biz journalism program
Thirty students signed up for the business and economics reporting concentration at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, making the concentration the largest of the five offered at the school. The number represents a big increase from the 19 business students on track to graduate this December and almost triple the 12 students who chose […]
Financial literacy and business journalism
Felix Salmon of Reuters writes Thursday about the importance of financial literacy for business journalists. Salmon writes, “But there’s a superficial exactness to numbers that doesn’t exist in words, and so people have a tendency to believe that all numbers are much more precise than in fact they are. If the Labor Department releases a […]
Government agencies to hold workshop on how to use its data
Representatives from each of the federal government’s 14 principal statistical agencies are hosting a symposium next month in Washington that will highlight the variety of federal statistics and the numerous statistical careers available in the public sector. The Symposium of the U.S. Statistical Agencies, which is part of the celebration of the International Year of […]
Judge tosses lawsuit against Columbia by biz journalism professor
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed earlier this year by business journalism professor Sylvia Nasar against Columbia University that claims she was underpaid, reports Joe Pompeo of Capital New York. Pompeo writes, “Nasar first accused Columbia in a January court summons of misdirecting funds she claimed should have been part of her compensation […]
Solomon named Deane professor of financial journalism at NYU
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute announced Wednesday that Stephen D. Solomon has been named as its first Marjorie Deane Professor of Financial Journalism. Stephen is the founder and director of the master’s program in business and economic reporting at the university. The program requires students to take six courses at NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business […]
