SABEW receives two $15,000 grants
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers received a $15,000 grant last month from the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Pew Charitable Trusts. The institute, which is associated with the Columbia University Teachers College, will sponsor a seminar at SABEW’s 44th annual conference in Orange County, Calif.,, on May 21. […]
Former Fed chairman Greenspan still doesn't understand the biz media
Marketwatch’s Greg Robb points out that despite his success in managing the country’s economy, former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan still doesn’t understand the role of the press in the financial world. As a prime example, senior reporter Robb trots out Greenspan’s speech last week that sent the market roiling because he mentioned the […]
Former BusinessWeek editor Steve Shepard on biz journalism
Steve Shepard, the former editor in chief of BusinessWeek and now the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York, spoke to Noah Davis and Dorian Benkoil at the MediaBistro site about his new job and views on business journalism. Here are a few snippets: Having done business journalism in […]
Biz journalism program created in China
The International Center for Journalists and Tsinghua University in Beijing will launch China’s first Global Business Journalism Program in September 2007. The initiative includes a two-year master’s degree program and workshops for professional journalists from around the country. The program will train students how to cover the fast-changing world of global business, economics and finance […]
Reynolds Center biz journalism interns named
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism named seven college students as business journalism interns at papers across the country on Tuesday. Through this paid internship program each student will spend 10 weeks working full time in business journalism at a host publication during the summer of 2007. “Internships are crucial to the […]
Biz journalism center started in South Africa
Rhodes University, in collaboration with the South African Reserve Bank, is setting up an African Economics Journalism Centre aimed at improving the quality of economics and business journalism in South Africa and elsewhere on the continent. With funding of R5 million (Roughly equivalent to about $720,000 US dollars) and support from the Reserve Bank, the Centre […]
Online biz journalism: You get what you pay for
Bryan Corliss, who is spending the 2006-07 year as a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University, attended a panel at Bloomberg News on Monday that discussed the future of business journalism online and posted about it on his blog. Corliss wrote, “When it comes to online business news, you’ll get what you pay for, members of […]
Hearst establishes biz journalism fellowships at Columbia
Hearst Corp. and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism announced Monday the establishment of the Hearst Fellowship Fund in Business Journalism at the university. The program will provide financial assistance to graduate students in the business and economics concentration of the school’s Master of Arts program. The goal is to attract the best qualified […]
Gadfly Davis gives money to UNC for business journalism scholarships
Evelyn Y. Davis, the nationally recognized advocate for shareholder rights, and the Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation have contributed $100,000 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication to endow four annual scholarships for senior undergraduate students interested in careers in business journalism or political journalism. “Mrs. Davis’ very […]
Venture capitalist wants to know where biz journalists will come from
Venture capitalist Paul Kedrosky, who has also done his fair share of writing in business publications, has an interesting post on his “Infectious Greed” blog. Kedrosky wrote, “Business news is newly hot in 2006/2007. Consider that last year CNBC was the only cable news network that grew its audience significantly, with, according to MediaWeek, its […]
