How Trump is helping real estate coverage
Michelle Jarboe is the real estate reporter on the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s business news desk and the outgoing president of the National Association of Real Estate Editors, which just held its annual conference in Denver. Jarboe has been with the Plain Dealer since 2007 covering commercial real estate, development and the housing market for Ohio’s […]
Testy Biz Copy Editor: Reporting on stocks? Learn the basics
(LA Times) No, it wasn’t like handing Amazon $13.7 billion. Most of the outstanding stock is held by investors, and they get the benefit of a higher share price. It is true that Amazon’s market value went up $13.7 billion, but that’s obvious. The Los Angeles Times should […]
Testy Biz Copy Editor: Bitcoin stories still need a nut graf
Bitcoin is a digital token that can be sent electronically from one user to another, anywhere in the world. (New York Times) For years, Testy Copy Editors has been looking for a nut graf that explains bitcoin, because general-interest readers haven’t a clue to what it is. This otherwise helpful explainer doesn’t have one. As […]
Eisinger: Business journalism fails to hold powerful accountable
Asher Schechter of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business writes about a recent symposium it held about business journalism. Schechter writes, “During a panel at the recent Stigler Center conference on concentration in America, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger offered an anecdote that spoke to the current state of business journalism. […]
Jarvey covers the intersection between tech and digital media
Jameson Doris of Min profiles The Hollywood Reporter Natalie Jarvey, who covers the digital media industry. Doris writes, “The 28-year-old says this is what got her hooked, but it wasn’t until she began studying journalism in college that she discovered an interest in business journalism. At the time, the digital media industry was so young […]
Google fires employees for leaking to tech reporters
A former employee of Google is suing the company over its policy of firing workers who talk to tech reporters, reports Kieren McCarthy of The Register. McCarthy writes, “‘If you’re considering sharing confidential information to a reporter – or to anyone externally – for the love of all that’s Googley, please reconsider! Not only could it cost […]
A Quartz reporter who also writes his own code
Jon Keegan of Columbia Journalism Review interviewed Quartz reporter David Yanofsky, who codes to use data visualization and graphics to help tell stories. Here is an excerpt: What’s your favorite kind of challenge in a story? I like finding sources of information that are seemingly under-utilized by people in journalism. With stream gauges, if there was a […]
How to get a reluctant source to talk on the record
Yardena Schwartz of the Columbia Journalism Review writes about how New York Times business reporter Emily Steel got a woman sexually harassed by Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly to speak on the record. Schwartz writes, “Then one day, says Walsh, ‘She tells me, ‘You have to go on the record. We need a face.’ I said no, I don’t need […]
NY Times’ Henriques on getting Madoff to talk
Cindy Adams of the New York Post interviewed former New York Times reporter Diana Henriques about how the got Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff to talk as the HBO movie based on her book “The Wizard of Lies” launches. Adams writes, “‘I was at my NY Times desk 4:15 when he was arrested. I’d covered him before and […]
Quartz launches obsession on propaganda
Financial news site Quartz will launch a new obsession on propaganda on Saturday. Instead of describing the world in terms of a set of fixed subject-matter categories, such as the “beats” at traditional newspapers, Quartz see it as a collection of evolving phenomena. It calls those obsessions, and they include things such as the future […]
