Neal Award winners
Pam Henderson and Andrew Burchett of Farm Journal magazine, a Farm Journal Media publication, earned Grand Neal honors at the 52nd Annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, held today at the Waldorf Astoria. Their subject-related series of articles, “Asian Soybean Rust Takes Root in the U.S.” offered an interesting viewpoint on Soybean Rust […]
SABEW conference scholarships for journalists
The SABEW Chair and the University of Missouri are sponsoring two scholarships for journalists from small and mid-size newspapers to the annual SABEW conference, April 30 through May 2 in Minneapolis. Applicants should be full-time journalists and SABEW members. These scholarships, worth more than $800 each, cover registration and three nights lodging. Please submit a […]
Business reporting awards in Africa launched
Drink company Diageo has launched the 2006 Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards, a set of international journalism awards that recognize excellence in reporting on business in Africa. Journalists and editors who report on business in Africa are eligible to enter six categories, covering print, online, television and radio journalism. Speaking at the launch, Nick Blazquez, […]
Thoughts from New York
As mentioned earlier, I took a group of students in my “Business Reporting” class to New York during Spring Break last week and met with people from the business journalism world. Here are some of the things that the students heard and saw that I thought were most important: 1. At BusinessWeek, they met a […]
One day newsroom management course
Does this conversation sound familiar? “Congratulations! You are the new Assistant Managing Editor/Business, with 20 business section staff reporting to you. Welcome on board! “And by the way: • You must cut 10% of your department budget within two months. We need your proposed cuts by next Friday. • Performance appraisals for all your staff […]
SABEW annual conference draws near
Registration deadline for the 43rd Annual Conference for The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) is fast approaching! This year’s conference promises to be exciting. Speakers will include William W. McGuire, M.D., president, chairman and chief executive officer of United HealthCare Corporation, Christopher Cox, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Cargill’s CEO […]
Scholarships to SABEW conference available
Two scholarships to the annual SABEW conference to be held April 30 through May 2 in Minneapolis are being offered by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at the American Press Institute. Applicants should be full-time journalists who cover business and supervisor approval is required. These scholarships, worth more than $800 each, […]
Seattle Times wins business award
The Scripps Howard Foundation named its National Journalism Awards today, and the Seattle Times won in the business and economics reporting category. Biotechnology reporter Luke Timmerman and investigative reporter David Heath exposed a little-known but insidious practice that had been growing on Wall Street: Looking to get an investing edge, elite Wall Street firms paid […]
What a business journalist reads in the paper
According to Karen Mathis, the senior business writer at the Florida Times-Union, the daily newspaper in Jacksonville, she reads the sports section in addition to the business section. Mathis was profiled in the Jacksonville Daily Record, the financial newspaper in town. Of note was the fact that her husband is a judge in Jacksonville, and […]
Time to cover more women in business stories
Lori Hope, editor of Bay Area Business Women, quotes some statistics from a recent study of how women are covered in the media that should be downright embarrassing for anyone who believes in trying to present an accurate reflection of the business community in the business section. Hope writes: “The 2005 Global Media Monitoring Project […]
