Fox Business Network's Joshi on reporting from India
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Fox Business Network reporter Shibani Joshi spent time in India last week reporting on business in that fast-growing country. Stories about India have been appearing on Fox Business Network shows throughout the day. Her reporting will culminate in a one-hour special scheduled to air later this week on the business network. […]
Loeb Award winner Rothacker talks about covering banking
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Charlotte Observer banking reporter Rick Rothacker won a Gerald Loeb Award last week in the beat reporting category for his coverage of Wachovia, the Charlotte-based bank that was sold last year to Wells Fargo. Rotahcker, a Northwestern University graduate, joined the Observer in 1998 and became the banking reporter in 2001. He […]
The strategy behind Daily Finance
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Amey Stone is the managing editor of Daily Finance, a new business site launched earlier this year by AOL that remains in beta format. Stone is also an assistant managing editor at AOL Money & Finance where she oversees business news and investing coverage. She has been with AOL since 2005 and […]
Fox Business to focus coverage next week on government spending
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Fox Business Network will spend the bulk of its coverage next week exploring the increase in government spending to prop up the economy and what that means to the average consumer. They’re calling it “Red Ink Week.” Leading that coverage will be anchor David Asman, who will have special reports on […]
Worth aims for high-end biz audience
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Richard Bradley is the editor of Worth magazine, which is relaunching with its June issue after being acquired by Sandow Media in February 2008. Before joining Worth a year ago, Bradley was executive editor of 02138 magazine in Boston and the author of three books. He also worked at George magazine. […]
WSJ reporter Kelly talks about her Bear Stearns book
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Wall Street Journal reporter Kate Kelly‘s book on the fall of Bear Stearns & Co., called “Street Fighters,” was released on Monday. In the book, Kelly describes the behind-the-scenes negotiations that occurred by Bear, the federal government and bidders for the company that ended up with it being sold to J.P. […]
Attracting personal finance readers online who aren't print subscribers
Doug Harbrecht is new media director for Kiplinger in Washington, D.C. Â He joined the 85-year-old organization in 2006, after a 20-year career in the Washington bureau of BusinessWeek magazine, where he covered Congress, the White House, politics, and international ecnomics and trade before moving to online side in 1996. First as online news editor, then […]
The differences — and similarities — between reporting and column writing
Beth Kassab is the business section columnist at the Orlando Sentinel. She took over the column just more than a year ago after the untimely death of her colleague Susan Strother Clarke. Before that, Kassab had been a business reporter at the Sentinel for seven years. She is an Orlando native and University of Florida […]
Writing personal finance as a critique
Ron Lieber joined the New York Times in May as its personal finance columnist after being the managing editor of FiLife, a personal finance Web site that is a joint venture between Dow Jones & Co. and IAC/Interactive. Before that, Lieber wrote the “Green Thumb,” a managing-your-money column for The Wall Street Journal that covered […]
Write great stories; don't worry about awards
In the second part of an interview with Fast Company editor at large Charles Fishman, he walks through the process of turning a magazine article into a full-length book. Fishman also talks about what it took to get his editors to pay for a trip to Fiji, and what he thinks makes for an award-winning […]
