Business journalists and numbers
Richard Holden, a former editor at the Wall Street Journal who is now executive director of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, has spent the past few years collecting examples from newspapers of how journalists improperly use numbers in their writing. He also teaches seminars across the country to journalists on how to better use numbers. […]
Interested in energy coverage?
Where does our supply of electricity, natural gas and gasoline come from and how does it get here? Will it keep coming? What do alternative energy sources need to compete? And, how can you take what’s often a boring and technical topic–reporting on energy issues–and make your audience care? “Covering the Next Energy Crisis,” a […]
Loeb Awards now accepting entries
The Loeb Awards, considered the Pulitzer Prize of business journalism, are now accepting entries for the 2006 contest. There is a new category for Best Business Book as well. This morning’s release states: “This year, a new Business Book category has been added to honor the author(s) of the book, published in the United States […]
New economics and journalism class at Berkeley
It will be called “Covering the Economy: The Story Behind the Numbers,” and a semi-final syllabus can be found here. The course will be taught by Brad DeLong, an economics professor at UC Berkeley and formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, and Susan Rasky, a former New York Times reporter. Here […]
North Texas biz journalism program founder dies
George Christy, a University of North Texas finance professor who helped create the university’s business journalism program, died in December, according to an article in the NT Daily student newspaper. Christy also wrote several finance columns in the Denton Record-Chronicle and The Dallas Morning News in the 1980s and 1990s and offered expert commentary on […]
Earnings season is about to start
Here are some suggestions on how to write earnings stories: It’s important to note that a company can use its earnings releases to put a spin on its performance. Sometimes a company will emphasize strong growth in revenue or sales to mask the fact that it spent a lot of money in the quarter on […]
SABEW seeks board members
If you’d like to have a say in how the national organization runs itself, then now is the time to consider running for a spot to be a board member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Here is the announcement: Six SABEW board positions open up every year. We also fill the […]
Ethics and business-to-business magazines
Here is an entry today from the Editors Weblog at www.editorsweblog.org: American B-to-B editors ‘dissatisfied’ with ethics at their own magazines “Against a splattered backdrop of product placement and increasing pressure from advertisers to blur the lines between advertising and editorial, a survey of high-ranking editors at 157 trade publications reveals “a serious concernâ€? about […]
Real estate writing competition
Just a warning: If you win, you might have to hear me speak. I have committed to talk about real estate coverage at the NAREE convention. The deadline to enter the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) Journalism Awards Program is fast approaching. The competition, open to ALL media covering real estate and home […]
Pittsburgh business editors to hold panel
This is for our Pittsburgh-area readers: Three business editors from Pittsburgh publications will conduct a panel for area communicators in a professional development program presented by IABC/Pittsburgh on Thursday, Jan. 26 from 7:30 – 9:30 a.m. at the Rivers Club in One Oxford Center downtown. Lauren Lawley Head, editor of The Pittsburgh Business Times; Steve […]
