SABEW seeks Fund for the Future donations
SABEW’s Fund for the Future is a new fundraising drive that seeks to provide this organization with the financial muscle required to create more innovative training opportunities at a cost that will fit into shrinking newsroom budgets. SABEW already helps our 3,500 members in numerous ways: from industry news and professional tips contained in our […]
Herald biz reporter to head program at Florida International
Miami Herald business reporter Gregg Fields announced that he is leaving the paper and will start a business journalism program at Florida International University. Fields wrote this in a note to The Daily Pulp blog: “I will leaving the Herald in August, altho’ I hope to write guest columns if they want them on economic […]
Business reporters can't do math: Part II
Everyone knows that the reason we became journalists was to avoid having to take math classes in college, right? The Media Orchard, a blog by a Dallas-based public relations firm, takes business journalists to task for not knowing math, and even cites an earlier posting on this blog as part of its evidence, although the […]
New graduate school at CUNY
Steve Shepard, who is the dean of the new graduate school of journalism at CUNY and the former editor of BusinessWeek, was profiled in the Feb. 17 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. The article had these two snippets related to business journalism: 1. “Students pick one of three tracks: health and medicine, business […]
Teaching business journalism
I spent Friday at the Graduate School of Journalism at Cal-Berkeley as part of a Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism workshop on business writing and got to spend some time with economist Brad DeLong and journalism professor Susan Rasky, who are team teaching a course in economics reporting this semester, to compare […]
Consumers do want to understand the economy
And they use the media to try to get as much information about what is happening in the economy, according to this report from the Heartland Institute. Larry Scholar, writing in Budget & Tax News, a Heartland publication, states that a study has shown that consumer “knowledge, however, varies depending on the source they use […]
Reporting tips from Fast Company writer
Charles Fishman, a contributing editor to Fast Company magazine, spoke to one of my classes this afternoon. Charles is very animated when it comes to talking about journalism, and he shared some of his tips in finding sources when it came to writing his book The Wal-Mart Effect. Here are some things he found helpful: […]
Earnings stories and college students
I threw my Business Reporting class into the fire, assigning them today as their first writing assignment of the semester to write 10 paragraphs on the earnings of a large publicly traded company. I gave them the press release and we spent the bulk of the class time talking about how to read an income […]
Former BusinessWeek editor talks about new grad school
Steve Shepard, the former editor of BusinessWeek, has been busy developing a graduate school of journalism at the City University of New York. It’s expected that business journalism education will play a big part in the school. Shepard talked to the New York Sun about his plans. He said, “I felt that it simply wasn’t […]
Covering oil company profits?
Then you might want to listen to this later this week: A tele-seminar has been scheduled this Thursday, Jan. 26, to brief journalists on the surge in oil company profits and the world market forces pushing earnings skyward. Starting this Wednesday, Jan. 25, the world’s major oil companies will report huge earnings increases for 2005. […]
