A talk with Steve Shepard
I spoke today with Steve Shepard, my old boss at BusinessWeek. Steve stepped down as editor of the magazine earlier this year after 20 years at the helm. He’s now the dean of the...
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Newsweek's Jane Bryant Quinn
I moved one office over today from Allan Sloan’s and talked to Jane Bryant Quinn, arguably the most visible and most important personal finance journalist in the field today. Like most women who wanted...
Newsweek's Allan Sloan talks business
If you don’t know who Allan Sloan is, then you’re not serious about business journalism. As the Wall Street editor for Newsweek, Sloan is one of the most readable and entertaining journalists when it...
Take the Enron quiz and see how you do
Bob Jensen, a professor at Trinity University in Texas, has prepared an Enron Quiz. I think all business journalists should be required to take this quiz. Here is the link to the quiz: Enron...
Just got back from South Carolina
And here is a report about my workshop at the South Carolina Press Association: Those in attendance did not know: 1. What a Uniform Commercial Code filing was and how it can be used;...
API seminar in Memphis
I just got back today from talking at one of the business reporting seminars put on around the country by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Reporting at the American Press Institute....
Bloomberg training
A guy by the name of Tom Contiliano is on the UNC campus today. Tom is a forensic accountant by training who works at Bloomberg News helping the journalists there understand what’s going on...
Carol Loomis update
I posted an item last week about Carol Loomis, the long-time Fortune writer whose memoirs of her 51-year career at the magazine were recently published in the 75th anniversary issue. I had a chance...
Prediction stories
I had an interesting conversation with the students in my Economics Reporting class today. I had them read “Ignoring the Alarm,” an article in the March 2003 issue of American Journalism Review, before class....
SABEW fall conference in St. Louis
Early Bird Registration Ends September 6th SABEW’s Fall Writers’ Workshops will be held October 10-11 in St. Louis, Missouri. Early bird registration prices are ending September 6th, so hurry to get the discount while...
