On being a kick ass business journalist
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE David Evans is an investigative business journalist who writes for Bloomberg Markets. A graduate of the University of Southern California Law Center, he spent five years prosecuting fraud for the U.S. government as a trial attorney for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission before joining Bloomberg in 1992. He joined the magazine’s […]
The reasoning behind Bloomberg’s sustainability coverage
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Eric Roston is a journalist who oversees Bloomberg News new initiative in covering sustainability-related issues. Roston peviously wrote The Climate Post, a popular weekly climate-and-energy news analysis at ClimatePost.net, and was affiliated with the the Washington, DC office of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. Previously, Roston wrote for […]
The heady rush of covering retail during the holiday season
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Maria Halkias has covered retail since 1993 in the business section at The Dallas Morning News. She joined The News in 1983 and prior beats were the Texas economy and the oil and gas business. She’s a native of Gary, Ind., and a graduate of Valparaiso University. Her first newspaper job […]
SmartMoney’s brand of personal finance
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Jonathan Dahl is editor of SmartMoney magazine, the Dow Jones & Co. monthly that competes in the personal finance category against Kiplinger’s and Time Inc.’s Money. Dahl oversaw the magazine and its Web site during the tumultuous financial crash that drew increased national attention to personal finance coverage. For 2008, the […]
Combining blogging with column writing
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Longtime business journalist Joseph N. DiStefano writes a blog to feed his PhillyDeals column in the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he covers commercial development plans and the behind-the-scenes investors who shape Philadelphia business. He also supports other beat reporters writing about corporate deals such as acquisitions and asset sales. Before returning to […]
A Pulitzer winner discusses his work
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE On Monday, Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica won a Pulitzer Prize in the national reporting category for their exposure of questionable practices on Wall Street that “contributed to the nation’s economic meltdown, using digital tools to help explain the complex subject to lay readers,” according to the judges. It […]
Business news on the radio
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Charles Herman left the comfortable confines of ABC one year ago this month to try his hand at reporting business news for WNYC Radio in New York. Herman is the business and economics editor for WNYC Radio and the national morning news program, “The Takeaway.” Each Monday, he joins “The Takeaway” […]
Back to business reporting after a stint covering government and politics
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Newsday reporter James Madore returned to the business news desk of the paper earlier this year after a four-year stint covering politics in the Albany. He’s now the paper’s senior economics reporter. Madore grew up in Illinois and majored in history and political science at Washington University in St. Louis. After that, he […]
From business journalism to the foreign service
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Sarah Talalay has traded in her journalism notebook for a passport. The sports business reporter for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel resigned from her job earlier this year to become a foreign service officer with the State Department. This summer, she will begin her first overseas posting in Chennai, India. Talalay was a […]
Citybizlist.com tackles business news on the Web
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Ed Warfield believes that the future of delivering business news is on the Internet. Warfield is the CEO and founder of Citybizlist.com, which runs 11 sites across the country, primarily in the East. The sites are Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte/Raleigh, Dallas, Houston, New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, South Florida, and Washington, D.C. […]
