Ag secretary to speak at fall SABEW conference
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer will speak Monday afternoon, Sept. 8 on the debate over “green” fuels at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers annual fall workshop in Kansas City, the organization announced Wednesday. Schafer joins the previously announced lineup of speakers, including NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer, Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant talking about future plans for […]
Conference will focus on investigative business reporting skills
Top business reporters will share tips, insight and strategies for investigating companies, corporations, government contractors and much more when Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Lorana Sullivan Foundation host a two-day workshop in New York City on Sept. 20-21. Gain the tools you need to dig into tax scandals, the foreclosure crisis, corporate secrets and […]
Going to China soon? Business journalist? Then read on
Gregg Fields, the former Miami Herald business journalist who is going to China to teach business journalism at Tsinghua University in Beijing, is looking for business reporters who plan on visiting the country in the next 12 months to come speak to his classes. “Tsinghua is a very prestigious school and is built on the […]
Gabor named Bloomberg professor at Baruch
Andrea Gabor, a longtime Baruch College journalism professor, has been named the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism. The endowed professorship was established with a gift from Bloomberg LP in 2001. Gabor is the second holder of the chair. Former BusinessWeek and New York Times business journalist Sarah Bartlett, now with CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, […]
Freelancing business journalism
Marci Alboher, who writes the Shifting Careers blog on the New York Times web site, writes about the freelancing business journalism conference call she participated in last week that was organized by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Alboher writes, “In the current economy, where increasing numbers of journalists are turning to freelancing […]
Reuters program to help journalists cover Chinese business
The Reuters Foundation, in collaboration with the Iowa-based Stanley Foundation, is accepting applications from U.S. journalists to participate in an all-expenses-paid journalism training course in Beijing, China from Nov. 10 to Nov. 14. The program will pair six American journalists with six Chinese journalists in a course designed to help reporters develop international news writing skills […]
Minority and independent businesses rate biz coverage
Eighty-eight percent of minority and independent business owners who have been interviewed by the media say the story that resulted was fair and accurate. However, 83 percent of respondents said reporters must improve their understanding of business. These findings are a part of new research on coverage of minority-owned and privately held businesses from The […]
SABEW offering training call for freelancing
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will offer a conference call on Aug. 5 for business journalists interesting in a career in freelancing. Whether driven by economic necessity, industry conditions or the desire for a more flexible schedule, more journalists are contemplating the freelancing life. Many succeed, but it’s not easy. SABEW has […]
Doctor prescribes how to fix what ails the biz news desk
Daily newspaper business news desks — struggling because their standalone sections and stock pahes have been cut — should focus less on covering the public companies in their area and more on the smaller companies that make their communities unique. They should also begin publishing all breaking news online and turn all of their staff writers […]
Klein leaving Washington Post biz desk to teach at Northwestern
Alec Klein, an investigative business journalist at the Washington Post, is leaving the paper and will begin teaching business journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in the fall. His last day at the paper is today. Klein, a Loeb Award winner and Pulitzer nominee, just wrapped up a three-part series on the U.S. housing boom and […]
