Personal finance reporting can be funny

Brian O’Connor is the syndicated Funny Money columnist from The Detroit News, a Knight-Bagehot fellow from the class of 2001, founding managing editor of Bankrate.com and author of the new humorous personal finance book, “The $1,000 Challenge: How One Family Slashed Its Budget Without Moving Under a Bridge or Living on Government Cheese.” The book […]

Life as a freelance business journalist

Ken Otterbourg left the traditional journalism world of daily newspapers in early 2010 and hasn’t looked back. For nearly four years, Otterbourg has made a living as a freelance business journalist, publishing his work in national publications such as Fortune, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. His work can be found at […]

Turning a business feature into a book

Beth Macy is the longtime families beat reporter for The Roanoke Times in Virginia. Since 1989, her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including two Casey medals for her projects on immigration and elderly care giving, several Society for Features Journalism awards, diversity writing honors from Columbia University, and a 2011 Associated […]

Benzinga’s goal? A more engaging source of financial news

Jason Raznick is the founder of the financial news site Benzinga and is a passionate entrepreneur. He founded two successful Internet companies prior to his current and largest company, Benzinga. Raznick has worked for Merrill Lynch, TheStreet.com, and Tricap Holdings. In the first five months, Benzinga grew to more than 50,000 active members. Benzinga is […]

The new biz journalism world called Planet Money

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Adam Davidson has reported on international business and economics for National Public Radio’s National Desk since December 2004. His reports can be heard on “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” and “Day to Day,” as well as NPR newscasts. He is also editorial director for NPR’s multimedia project covering the global economy, […]

Launching a business news Web site takes lots of work

Aaron Kremer launched RichmondBizSense.com at the beginning of the year, and he’s now reaching more than 1,300 readers a day through his Web site and via an e-mail service. A former intern on the Richmond Times-Dispatch business desk, Kremer attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication […]