Fortune launches its higher ed coverage with online MBA rankings
Fortune announced Monday the launch of Fortune Education, which will cover the business of higher education. It will start with business school rankings and will continue on to ranking and rating various graduate, post-graduate, executive education and personal and professional improvement programs. The web page will include articles, insights, and ongoing reporting about what prospective students […]
Dow Jones News Fund names biz reporting interns
Dow Jones News Fund named the interns for its two business journalism summer programs. AMERICAN CITY BUSINESS JOURNALS – DOW JONES NEWS FUND BUSINESS REPORTING PROGRAM Ahmari Anthony, Howard University, Pittsburgh Business Times Spencer Brewer, University of Texas, Arlington, Dallas Business Journal Austin De Dios, University of Portland, Portland Business Journal Nicole Dolan, University of […]
Wharton to hold biz journalism seminar on June 2
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania is inviting business journalists to apply for the next virtual Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists program. The June 2 program will feature Wharton professors Katy Milkman, Ben Keys and Mary-Hunter McDonnell who will present on “The Science of Behavior Change,” “Unpacking the COVID-19 Housing Bubble” and “How Corporate America Responds to Contentious Social Environments,” respectively. View the […]
Quartz offering seminar on biz journalism as a career
Financial news site Quartz is offering a one-hour panel next week on considering business journalism as a career. The panel will be April 21 from noon to 1 p.m. The panel features Quartz editor in chief Katherine Bell, Marker editor in chief Danielle Sacks and Reuters Nigeria bureau chief Alexis Akwagyiram. “Hear from journalists across different […]
Lambert named editorial director of Fortune Education
Fortune magazine editor in chief Clifton Leaf sent out the following announcement on Thursday afternoon: Fortune has a long history of finding and recognizing talent from within—and so it is with great pleasure that I announce that Lance Lambert has been promoted again, this time to Editorial Director of Fortune Education, our soon-to-be-launched platform designed to help business professionals […]
Forbes names first HBCU fellows and Forbes Academy students
Forbes magazine named 10 HBCU students and recent graduates to participate in the Forbes Fellowship Academy, a series of masterclasses and panel discussions, taught by Forbes reporters and editors, for the purpose of providing additional expertise and opportunities to write for Forbes. The inaugural class of Forbes Fellows: Whitney Bronson (Hampton University, Class of ’20, […]
Quinnipiac seeks Abelson professor in business journalism/financial communication
Quinnipiac University’s School of Communications seeks an experienced professional in business journalism and/or financial communication to join the faculty as its Alan Abelson Endowed Professor of Business Journalism/Financial Communication beginning Fall 2021. The tenure-track professorship at the assistant or associate level will be a joint appointment in the Departments of Journalism, Media Studies and/or Strategic […]
WSJ, Yahoo Sports, KC Star launch Howard U. scholarship
The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Sports and The Kansas City Star today announced the creation of the Terez A. Paylor Scholarship at Howard University. The scholarship will be awarded to students majoring in journalism, with an emphasis in sports journalism, who carry a 3.0 GPA requirement. Paylor passed away in February of 2021 after a […]
O’Neil Lecture in Business Journalism features The 19th founders
After breaking ground in nonprofit journalism as top leaders at The Texas Tribune, Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora launched their own national news organization last year, The 19th, which strives to empower women, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community “with the information, community and tools they need to be equal participants in our democracy.” The pair […]
Business Insider, Industry Dive partner with NAHJ on workshops
Business Insider and Industry Dive have partnered with National Association of Hispanic Journalists on a series of workshops to help Latino reporters break into business journalism. Each training will be a workshop-style training, with a short presentation interspersed with hands-on opportunities to test skills. They will stand alone as courses, but attendees who attend all sessions will be […]
