WSJ seeks an education reporter

The Wall Street Journal is looking for an education beat reporter to cover the nation’s K-12 schools, which are now more in the public spotlight than at any point in recent memory. In the wake of the pandemic, schools are rethinking what and how they teach and are receiving a historic influx of federal funding. […]

Bloomberg’s Laya named Nieman Fellow

Patricia Laya, the Venezuela bureau chief for Bloomberg News, has been named a Nieman Fellow. She will study Venezuela’s economic, sociopolitical and health crises as tools of oppression and how the country’s authoritarian government has benefitted from a population subdued by hunger, misery and disease. Laya has been based in Venezuela since 2017. She was […]

Smith named Knight-Bagehot director

Robert Smith, the award-winning host of NPR’s Planet Money, will become the director of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism starting July 1. He will also join Columbia Journalism School’s faculty. As host and correspondent for “Plant Money,” Smith’s engaging and accessible storytelling on how the global economy touches people’s everyday lives helped […]

Columbia names this year’s Knight-Bagehot fellows

Columbia Journalism School announced Wednesday 10 Knight-Bagehot Fellows in Economics and Business Journalism for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Fellows represent organizations including Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg News, The Wall Street Journal and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). The mid-career fellowships provide full tuition and a living stipend of $60,000 for experienced journalists […]

Fortune launches its higher ed coverage with online MBA rankings

Fortune announced Monday the launch of Fortune Education, which will cover the business of higher education. It will start with business school rankings and will continue on to ranking and rating various graduate, post-graduate, executive education and personal and professional improvement programs. The web  page will include articles, insights, and ongoing reporting about what prospective students […]

Dow Jones News Fund names biz reporting interns

Dow Jones News Fund named the interns for its two business journalism summer programs. AMERICAN CITY BUSINESS JOURNALS – DOW JONES NEWS FUND BUSINESS REPORTING PROGRAM Ahmari Anthony, Howard University, Pittsburgh Business Times Spencer Brewer, University of Texas, Arlington, Dallas Business Journal Austin De Dios, University of Portland, Portland Business Journal Nicole Dolan, University of […]

Wharton to hold biz journalism seminar on June 2

The Wharton School  at the University of Pennsylvania is inviting business journalists to apply for the next virtual Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists program. The June 2 program will feature Wharton professors Katy Milkman, Ben Keys and Mary-Hunter McDonnell who will present on “The Science of Behavior Change,” “Unpacking the COVID-19 Housing Bubble” and “How Corporate America Responds to Contentious Social Environments,” respectively. View the […]

Quartz offering seminar on biz journalism as a career

Financial news site Quartz is offering a one-hour panel next week on considering business journalism as a career. The panel will be April 21 from noon to 1 p.m. The panel features Quartz editor in chief Katherine Bell, Marker editor in chief Danielle Sacks and Reuters Nigeria bureau chief Alexis Akwagyiram. “Hear from journalists across different […]

Lambert named editorial director of Fortune Education

Fortune magazine editor in chief Clifton Leaf sent out the following announcement on Thursday afternoon: Fortune has a long history of finding and recognizing talent from within—and so it is with great pleasure that I announce that Lance Lambert has been promoted again, this time to Editorial Director of Fortune Education, our soon-to-be-launched platform designed to help business professionals […]

Forbes names first HBCU fellows and Forbes Academy students

Forbes magazine named 10 HBCU students and recent graduates to participate in the Forbes Fellowship Academy, a series of masterclasses and panel discussions, taught by Forbes reporters and editors, for the purpose of providing additional expertise and opportunities to write for Forbes. The inaugural class of Forbes Fellows: Whitney Bronson (Hampton University, Class of ’20, […]