Tales of hurricane coverage from the Houston Chronicle biz editor
Whatever we write about Hurricane Harvey at the Houston Chronicle, our story already is upstaged by Hurricane Irma. Houston did not evacuate 6 million people as Harvey approached, nor did it face the raging winds that Irma may slam on Miami. We have deaths, casualties, all manner of human misery, business disruptions, untold billions in […]
Sqoop, site used by biz reporters, adds DOJ documents
Sqoop, the site that helps business journalists find stories in Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filings, has added Department of Justice documents to its database. David Kellum of Sqoop writes, “As a result of your answers, we prioritized adding U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) publications. This includes: Press releases and speech […]
Testy Copy Editor: “Trump-linked” oligarch’s company goes bust
It’s out of vogue to be “fair” to President Donald Trump – often for good reasons – but sometimes we must call out stories whose premises are a little out of line. Two mysterious companies owned by the Russian oligarch who bought Donald Trump’s Palm Beach mansion filed for bankruptcy in North Carolina Friday, adding […]
Law360 reporter Sundar wants publications to nurture investigative work
Law360 reporter Sindhu Sundar spoke to The News Guild about her career and why she became a journalist. Here is an excerpt: 3. What could the news business use more of? Public support and funding! Many publications seem perilously dependent on advertisers and their corporate showrunners. Publications should also be encouraged to nurture their reporters’ investigative […]
Wall Street and the business press
Heidi Moore, the editor in chief of Ladders, writes about how Wall Street would work with the business media as a way of understanding new White House communication director Anthony Scaramucci, who came from Wall Street. Moore writes, “As a reporter at the Wall Street Journal during the financial crisis, I was boggled by the […]
Consuelo Mack: More women getting into financial journalism
Consuelo Mack is an American business news journalist and host of “WealthTrack,” a nationally syndicated business news program presented by WLIW-TV in New York City. She spoke with TheStreet.com about how more women are getting into financial journalism. “It has really heartened to me a great deal to see on TheStreet.com, for instance at CNBC, […]
When subjects of business news stories cry “fake news”
Dana Melius of the St. Peter Herald in southern Minnesota writes about how the subjects of business news coverage at his paper and its sister papers have recently accused the newspapers of “fake news.” Melius writes, “But this concept of fake news has drifted down to the local level, as well. In the past couple months, […]
New “Bloomberg Way” includes other delivery formats
The latest edition of the “Bloomberg Way” guide to business reporting now includes practices for data and multiplatform journalism, reports Daniel Funke of Poynter. Funke writes, “The updated version of ‘The Bloomberg Way,’ which was circulated to staff this week, is a departure from the business news organization’s previous version of the guide, which focused heavily on writing for the […]
Testy Biz Copy Editor: Which paper clip do you mean, Bloomberg?
Just report its size with numbers. The story text narrows it down to “one-third the size of an AAA battery.” But you’d still have to get out a ruler. (Bloomberg) (The AAA battery measurement is apparently standard. It comes […]
CNBC editor Deogun: Let’s stick to the facts
CNBC editor in chief Nik Deogun encouraged those in the media to stick to the facts and acknowledge when they don’t know something because readers “are not as ignorant, as stupid as we think they are” at The Aspen Ideas Festival. Tré Goins-Phillips of The Blaze writes, “In his response, Deogun warned against holding different people to different […]
