Conference call to discuss Christmas retail coverage
The day after Thanksgiving, as any retail reporter will tell you, means skipping turkey sandwiches to wake up early and trek to the mall looking for customers and merchants willing to offer up a quote. It’s time to start planning your coverage. Love it or hate it, readers and viewers count on us to cover […]
More unemployment stories when paper leans opposite president
Newspapers with pro-Democratic endorsement pattern routinely give more coverage to high unemployment rates when the president is a Republican than when the president is Democratic, compared to newspapers with pro-Republican endorsement pattern, according to a new study by professors. Valentino Larcinese, a government professor at the London School of Economics, Riccardo Puglisi, a political science professor […]
The future of business journalism
Oklahoman business writer Steve Lackmeyer interviewed Oklahoma State University journalism professor Joey Senat about the future of business journalism in the wake of News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch‘s decision to acquire The Wall Street Journal and the impending launch of Fox Business Network. Here is an excerpt: Q:Â Has the disappearance of stock pages from newspaper […]
Biz newsletter publisher gives grant to IRE
UCG, which publishes newsletters about industries ranging from health care to funeral homes, has given a $10,000 grant to Investigative Reporters and Editors to help it revamp its web site. “UCG and IRE have the same values, that training is important and investigative journalism matters, so we’re delighted to support IRE with this donation,” said […]
Former BusinessWeek ME to teach in China
Three leading business journalists will join the faculty of China’s first global business journalism program at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. They include Robert J. Dowling, former managing editor of BusinessWeek International; Ann M. Morrison, former editor of c; and Nailene Chou Wiest, who was a Knight International Journalism Fellow in China and had worked for Reuters […]
Internships, scholarships in business journalism
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is offering three innovative programs for universities designed to improve the quality of the nation’s business coverage. “There is business in every story,” said Andrew Leckey, director of the Reynolds Center. “Professors and students can be leaders in assuring it is explained well.” The second annual […]
Deloitte Touche to sponsor China business journalism program
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has become a sponsor of a business journalism program that launches on Sept. 17 at Tsinghua University. The goal of this initiative, run by the university and the Washington-based International Center for Journalists, is to create business journalists able to produce insightful, balanced coverage of China’s markets and the global economy. Deloitte Touche […]
Black journalism students should study to become biz writers
Washington Post reporter Keith Alexander told a group of journalism students from historically black colleges and universities Thursday night that they should work on becoming business journalists because that will present them with a number of opportunities. “The business desks on the newspapers across the country, there are very few people who look like you,” […]
Dow Jones extends internship program
The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund has broadened the business reporting internship program to include college seniors in summer 2008. The business reporting program originated in 1995 recruiting minority college sophomores and juniors. Continuing its commitment to diversity, the program will accept applications from seniors. The reprised online internship program, supported by a continuing commitment from […]
Remembering Charles Dow
Bill Stanley of the Norwich Bulletin writes Sunday about one of the founders of The Wall Street Journal, Charles Dow, who grew up in nearby Sterling. Stanley wrote, “Dow is recognized as the father of business news and I am proud and happy he came from our neck of the woods in Eastern Connecticut. “Young […]
