Inc.'s staff blog a Webby finalist

Inc. magazine’s staff blog was recently selected as a nominee for a Webby Award. Here’s the link to the full list of nominees, and the list of the other nominees in the business blog category. None of the others were in business journalism. The business blog category is for sites that serve as weblogs or […]

Wal-Mart meets with reporters next week

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has planned a two-day meeting next week with journalists who write about the world’s largest retailer to help open the lines of communication with the increasingly criticized company. MarketWatch reporter Jennifer Waters writes, “In only the second time that Wal-Mart (WMT) has opened its doors to reporters, the company is launching the […]

BU's Ureneck, who runs biz journalism program, to become chair

Lou Ureneck, who runs the business journalism program at Boston University, will become chair of the journalism department at the College of Communication, replacing former ABC News reporter Robert Zelnick, who is stepping down after four years, according to this announcement. Ureneck joined the BU faculty in 2003 after six years with the Philadelphia Inquirer, […]

Biz reporters and corporate PR people

I spoke for an hour today to a journalism class at Duke University about business reporting. There were the basic questions about whether you could own stocks of companies you write about. (My answer was an emphatic no.) And there was the question about writing commentary about companies you cover from a news standpoint. (Call […]

Ask the ethics guy

Bruce Weinstein, who writes a weekly ethics column that is syndicated by Knight-Ridder, recently held a Q&A with Terry Keenan, a business correspondent and anchor of “Cashin’ In” on the Fox News Channel. One particular question, and answer, is of interest to all business journalists: “Q. What have you observed in business or business journalism […]

Irving R. Levine still going strong

Former NBC News economics correspondent Irving R. Levine, who made bow ties fashionable in the 1970s and explained inflation to the masses, is still going strong as a lecturer at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., according to an article in the Boca Raton News. Dale King writes, “The pioneer journalist recalled how he got […]

Bloomberg TV wins award for GM show

Bloomberg Television won the prestigious Golden Wheel award at ceremonies last night at the Automotive Hall of Fame. It was the first time in recent years that a TV report received the top honor in the International Wheel Awards competition, which honors excellence in automotive journalism and is sponsored by the Detroit Press Club Foundation. […]

LA Times economics writer Gosselin named to fellowship

The Urban Institute today named Peter G. Gosselin, national economics correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, to a one-year fellowship at the institute. The fellowship will permit Gosselin to expand on research underlying stories he wrote for the Times in 2004 and 2005 about family income instability and economic insecurity in the United States, which […]

Middle East journalists' view of U.S. biz coverage

I just spent the past hour talking about U.S. business coverage with a group of about 16 journalists from Middle Eastern countries ranging from Morocco to Bahrain to Iraq. The general impression that they have about business news coverage in this country is that it is too soft and not critical enough about businesses. I […]

SABEW Best in Business award winners named

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers has named the winners in its 11th annual Best in Business contest, which recognizes the best overall publications, as well as best breaking news, enterprise and special projects reporting in business journalism during 2005. The contest received 850 entries from daily newspapers, business weekly newspapers, magazines, wire […]