SABEW to hold conference call Thursday on health care stories
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a conference call Thursday for business reporters to discuss potential health care stories. The call will be at 3 p.m. EST. The primary topic will be how potential health care reform currently being debated in Congress might affect businesses. Also discussed will be the cost […]
TheStreet.com editor Morrow named to Reynolds chair
TheStreet.com editor in chief David Morrow has been named the first Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism at the University of Nevada-Reno. Morrow has been at TheStreet.com since 2001, supervising a staff of 65 reporters and editors. The site has won numerous honors, including “best enterprise reporting” and “best commentary” from the Society of American […]
IPI to hold forum on business relationship with media
The International Press Institute announced Thursday the first IPI Business Journalist Forum (IBJF), bringing together business executives and financial journalists to discuss one of the most debated issues of recent times –- the relationship between business and financial reporting. The IBJF is scheduled to take place Nov. 12 and Nov. 13 in Baden, Austria, with business […]
Fox's Dagen McDowell came up through biz journalism the hard way
Nancy Menefree Jackson of SmartWoman.com interviewed Fox Business Network anchor Dagen McDowell about her career and how she prepares for work each day. Here is an excerpt: Q: How did you educate yourself about the financial world? McDowell: I started by reading as much as I could: newspapers, books, research. But I learned the most […]
Panel in New York next week on business journalism's future
The Columbia Journalism Review and the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute will hold a panel discussion next week on the future of business journalism in the wake of the economic meltdown. The session will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16, at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in the World Room. The panelists […]
SABEW to hold event in New York
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will host an event at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on May 28 to help out-of-work business journalists. Among those scheduled to speak at the event about coverage of the current economic crisis are New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia and former Wall Street Journal managing […]
Real estate reporters to meet in June in Washington
The National Association of Real Estate Editors will hold its 43rd Annual Real Estate Journalism Conference from June 18 to June 21 in Washington, DC. The conference will include a freelancer forum, plus, NAREE’s leading bloggers and videocasters will show attendees how to get started and how to take it up a notch. There will be plenty of […]
Columbia names nine new Knight-Bagehot fellows
The Knight-Bagehot business journalism program for mid-career journalists at Columbia University School of Journalism will admit nine new fellows for the 2009-2010 academic year. The fellows are: Raul Gallegos, 35, a foreign correspondent covering oil and politics for Dow Jones Newswires from Caracas, Venezuela; Martha Graybow, 38, a correspondent for Reuters since 2001Â who currently oversees […]
FT editor: Yeah, we blew it
Jeff Bercovici of Conde Nast Portfolio notes that Financial Times editor Lionel Barber is giving a speech this afternoon at Yale University on the financial press and the economic meltdown. His conclusion: We kinda blew it. Bercovici writes, “Specifically, he says, they blew it in five ways: by failing to see the dangers in unregulated […]
Panel assessing financial journalism to be held in NYC next week
The New York Financial Writers Association is sponsoring a panel discussion on “Financial Journalism Under Fire: Did We Do Our Job?†on Tuesday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, 219 West 40th Street, 3rd Floor. The panel will be moderated by Myron Kandel, CNN founding financial editor. Panelists include: Jon […]
