Is anyone else bothered by this solicitation?
The e-mail below is one that I received from a public relations person at General Motors today, asking me to send student journalists to an event that the company will be holding in Las Vegas next month. Maybe I’m just a bit jaded, but I have a problem with this solicitation. It seems what young […]
Scholarships available to SABEW fall conference
A scholarship to the SABEW Fall Workshop on Oct. 30 and 31, valued at nearly $700, is being offered by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. The workshop is being held in New York City at the headquarters of Bloomberg News. The scholarship covers the $175 registration fee and two nights lodging […]
South Africa training of biz journalists
I’ve just wrapped up a two-day workshop on business journalism for 14 reporters and students from around South Africa. The seminar was sponsored by the South African National Editors’ Forum. The first day focused on reporting skills, while the second day dealt with writing about business. One of the more-interesting discussions was the one on […]
Tech coverage in the New York Times
New York Times technology editor Kevin McKenna answered questions online from readers about the paper’s tech coverage, including whether the paper would bring back its stand-alone Circuits section, which was dropped last year, and how the paper’s tech coverage differed from Web sites that followed the business. McKenna wrote, “After a good seven-year run, Circuits […]
Biz journalism education in South Africa
Met this evening with Manoah Esipisu, a senior Reuters journalism based in Johannesburg who is also teaching a business journalism class at the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in thw downtown area. The journalism class he teaches, which is an honors course, is one of only two related […]
South Africa's Business Report
I spent Friday at Business Report, a South African financial daily that is a subsidiary of The Star, the largest newspaper in South Africa. Frankly, I came away from the workshop and the discussions very impressed with the knowledge base of the reporters and the editors. Their knowledge of issues such as cash-flow statements and […]
South African journalism students intersted in biz reporting
I spent Thursday in South Africa traveling to two different universities to talk to groups of journalism students about the joys and wonders of business reporting. In the morning, I went to Potchefstroom, about 90 minutes away from Johannesburg, to talk to a group of students at the University of the North-West. In a group […]
First impressions of South African biz journalism
I met this morning with some writers and editors at Media24, which is one of the large media houses in Johannesburg. I was told that these people were some of the savviest business journalists in the country, and they did not disappoint. I had planned to do a short session on reading company financial statements, […]
Real estate reporting fellowship offered
The National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) is accepting applications from real estate journalists, including editors, freelance writers and staff reporters, for the $5,000 NAREE Bivins Fellowship program. Grants are available to mid-career journalists to enhance their ability to cover real estate, and residential or commercial building topics. Sept. 15, 2006 is the deadline […]
Was Bill Gates interview faked?
Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday a Norwegian journalist never interviewed Bill Gates and a story published in an Oslo magazine was untrue, according to a UPI wire story. “The interview never took place,” a Microsoft Norway spokesman told Norway’s leading business newspaper, Dagens Næringsliv. Journalist Bjorn Benkow insists the interview is authentic, saying he interviewed Gates […]
