Great comments from Allan Sloan
If you’re a fan of Newsweek Wall Street column Allan Sloan — and every business journalist should be — then you’re likely to get a kick out of his column in this morning’s Washington Post. The column can be read here. Let me excerpt the best part, the section about his reporting tactics. This sums […]
MarketWatch losing readers?
Business 2.0 has a nice update on the Dow Jones acquisition of the CBS Marketwatch web site, which occurred almost a year ago. Seems that the site has lost a lot of viewers and that Dow Jones, which does not have a good history when it comes to acquisitions, may have overpaid. To read the […]
Nice Wal-Mart banking story
Maybe I have missed this story at other papers, but I read Tom Shean’s story in this morning’s Virginian-Pilot about Wal-Mart’s banking plans and was blown away by the revelations. You can read the full story here. What impressed me about this story was the great detail he got from digging through the regulatory filings […]
Does big business have a PR problem?
Interesting story from the Dec. 9 New York Times on whether big business is having a public relations crisis. “More than ever, Americans do not trust business or the people who run it,” reports Claudia H. Deutsch. “Pollsters, researchers, even many corporate chiefs themselves say that business is under attack by a majority of the […]
Attending annual meetings
December is not the prime annual meeting and proxy season. That’s typically in March and April, when most companies hold their annual meetings. In the past, many business journalists or their newspapers would purchase one share of stock for all of the local public companies so that they could attend. But that practice has lapsed […]
Nice discussion for finding analyst reports online
Getting access to analyst reports to use in business journalism articles can often be a problem for reporters. The analysts don’t want to put you on their mailing list, or they don’t want to e-mail them to you. Here are some suggestions on how to correct this reporting issue: Getting analyst reports can be a […]
Cool economics reporting resource
Do you cover the local, regional or national economy for your media outlet but aren’t really sure about what you’re doing? If that’s the case, then I ran across this cool resource: The Center for Economic and Policy Research sends out a weekly newsletter via e-mail called Economics Reporting Review. In it, Dean Baker of […]
The best corrections of 2005
If we can’t make fun of ourselves, then who can we make fun of? It’s a saying that I’ve always believed in, and one of my biggest criticisms about the field of business journalism is that we often take ourselves way too seriously. We are not perfect, and sometimes our mistakes can be embarrassing. And […]
Still a classic, 16 years later
I was on the Power Reporting web site earlier today looking for something when I ran across Bill Dedmon‘s series in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1988 about how banks would not lend money in this supposed city Too Busy to Hate to consumers who lived in predominantly minority neighborhoods. The series was called the Color […]
Writing the same story from different angles
One of the interesting discussions at the American Press Institute business editors’ seminar that I attended earlier this week was how the same story could be written in different ways but still have an angle that was of interest to readers. The discussion leader was John Edwards III, no relation to the vice presidential candidate […]
