Making business news accessible to a wider audience
Ritika Gupta, the BBC’s North American business correspondent, was interviewed by Global Woman magazine about her career. Here is an excerpt: With economic uncertainty becoming a recurring theme, how do you ensure that your reporting not only informs but also engages viewers who may not have a deep background in business? I have always been […]
A biz editor: Give voice to the voiceless and hold power accountable
Local and business news editor Benjamin Lanka of the Columbus Dispatch talks about his career. Lanka writes, “More importantly, I covered a mayoral candidate who was eventually indicted for not properly reporting campaign contributions, allowing a Democrat to win the seat in a highly conservative community. He held the seat for multiple terms — proving the importance […]
How CNBC tech reporter Browne approaches his beat
Cole Garry of SBS Communications interviewed CNBC technology reporter Ryan Browne about his job. Here is an excerpt: You’re based in London, and you have a focus on European companies and news, but you’ve covered major U.S. and global stories as well. How should PR people—and the companies they work with—think about your coverage areas? My best […]
How Indiana Lawyer’s new editor hopes to improve coverage
Greg Weaver, the new editor in chief of Indiana Lawyer, writes about his plans for the publication. Weaver writes, “From that experience, I hope to deepen the Lawyer’s coverage of the growing government relations and lobbying practices in the state and spend more time looking at the operations of the state’s judiciary and the disclosure, […]
The balancing act of covering the media industry
New York Times reporter Ben Mullin spoke with Josh Ocampo about how he covers the media industry. Here is an excerpt: What’s challenging about your beat? The media beat tends to be porous, unlike covering national security, for example. Information is less likely to stay concealed for a long period of time, so finding information and making it public […]
Do reporters like pitches by social media?
In an update to the groundbreaking 2015 Talking Biz News article “The pros/cons of pitching biz reporters through social media,” we again asked several reporters their opinion on receiving pitches via social media. Back in ‘15, X was Twitter and TikTok didn’t exist. Instagram had just launched Boomerang, and Facebook had enabled GIFs. Snapchat was […]
Remembering the quintessential business editor
Jeff McDonald of the San Diego Union-Tribune writes about its former business editor, Don Bauder, who died recently at the age of 88. McDonald writes, “Craig D. Rose, the former Union-Tribune technology and utilities reporter hired by Bauder in 1987, said his old editor was renowned across the newsroom for standing by his reporters and keeping meticulous […]
What we can learn from lawyer’s letter to Business Insider
Bill Grueskin, a longtime business journalist, writes for Columbia Journalism Review about what can be learned from the letter sent to Business Insider regarding its coverage of plagiarism allegations against Neri Oxman. Grueskin writes: Do give subjects of your complicated stories time to respond. After BI’s first Oxman story ran, the site quickly assembled another […]
CNBC’s Colarusso on how the news channel operates
Russell Sherman of the “Press Profiles” podcast interviewed CNBC senior vice president of news Dan Colarusso about his job and his career. Colarusso, who lives in Brooklyn, is typically in the CNBC office in New Jersey before 7 a.m. “I don’t sleep much,” he said. “Rest is for the dead.” He reads the Financial Times, […]
Swisher on when reporting leads to conclusions
Harry McCracken of Fast Company spoke with legendary tech journalist Kara Swisher about her career in advance of her new book being released on Tuesday: Here is an excerpt: You talk in the book about instances in which you gave advice to some of these tech executives. The upshot is usually that they didn’t follow it. […]
