SABEW to hold call Thursday on writing personal finance stories
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a conference call Thursday on personal finance stories to write now during the Wall Street turmoil. The call will be held at noon Eastern Standard Time. Panelists on the call will be Gail MarksJarvis, the personal finance and markets columnist at the Chicago Tribune; John […]
Fellowships available for business journalism training
Fellowships for two weeklong business journalism training seminars Jan. 6 to Jan. 9, 2009, in Phoenix, Ariz., are available from the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. The “Strictly Financials Seminarâ€? gives seasoned journalists an opportunity for in-depth study of financials and accounting, while the “Business Journalism Professors Seminarâ€? is designed to train […]
Suburban papers to hold conference call on covering financial crisis
The Suburban Newspapers of America will hold a conference call Monday for reporters and editors interested in learning how to cover the current financial crisis better. The call will be at 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Dr. Edward Leamer, director of the internationally recognized UCLA Anderson Forecast, is the featured speaker for the briefing and […]
Business journalism internships offered through Reynolds Center
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced Monday the news organizations that will host its summer 2009 business journalism internships for university students. Host organizations for the 10-week paid internships are:Â CNBC (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.), Dow Jones Newswires (New York), Fortune, Los Angeles Times, MarketWatch (San Francisco), Reuters America (New York), The […]
Covering banks during a time of financial crisis
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a conference call Wednesday at noon EST for reporters on covering banks and the banking industry during the current economic upheaval. The panelists on the call will be Drew DeSilver, banking and public companies reporter at the Seattle Times; Bernie Kohn, investigations editor at the Baltimore […]
Not much interest in studying financial journalism at Columbia
Bob Garfield of the NPR show “On the Media” interviewed Columbia University adjunct professor Cheryl Strauss Einhorn and found that interest in learning about business and financial journalism is low among her students. In fact, this year only four students enrolled in her class. “This year they weren’t even able to drum up enough interest […]
Bank reporting tip: Cull FDIC "call reports" for signs of failing banks
Sean Sposito, a University of Missouri journalism student attending the fall Society of American Business Editors and Writers workshop in Kansas City, filed this report on using FDIC documents to search for failing banks. Here is Sposito’s report: A bank failure here in Kansas City several months ago was reason enough to take heed of what Susan […]
Energy policy debated at SABEW conference
Steve Everly and Karen Dillon of the Kansas City Star write Tuesday about how experts debated the nation’s energy policy at the fall Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference. Everly and Dillon write, “But Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer found some flaws in Pickens’ plan. “For example, Schafer questioned whether it was wise […]
Covering the ag beat
Sean Sposito, a student at the University of Missouri, covered a session Tuesday morning at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers fall conference in Kansas City on agriculture economics and filed this report: The speakers were Missouri professors Jan Duave and Wyatt Thompson. The pupils: business reporters from publications across the country. They […]
Webcasts from SABEW fall conference next week will be available
A live webcast of some of the country’s most influential business leaders offering their perspective and vision on key issues facing our economy will be available to journalists and the general public on Sept. 8-9 through the following link: www.kauffman.org/sabew The webcast link will be available for 30 days following the event. The series of […]
