Why a NY Times biz reporter loves her beat
New York Times food business writer Stephanie Strom spoke to Edible Manhattan about her job and cooking. Here is an excerpt: I’ve been at the Times since 1988. Much of that was spent covering retail business, Wall Street, Japan and the nonprofit world. Then about six years ago this (food business writer) position opened up and a […]
Meet Adam Sichko, ACBJ’s best beat reporter for the year
Adam Sichko is a senior reporter for the Nashville Business Journal, an American City Business Journals paper, and last month he was named one of two best beat reporters at company. (The other is Matthew Kish of the Portland Business Journal, who won in 2015 and whom we interviewed then.) Sichko covers commercial real estate […]
Quartz reporter sues government for immigrant data
David Yanofsky of Quartz writes about why he is suing the federal government to obtain records on who is entering the country. Yanofsky writes, “My lawsuit against the Department of Commerce asks a judge to compel the release of two databases that chronicle the flow of people into the US. One contains anonymous immigrations records; […]
Velshi: The louder the crisis, the quieter your coverage
Pranav Bhandarkar of The Politic spoke with business journalist Ali Velshi, most recently with Al Jazeera America, about his career. Here is an excerpt: In your process of covering the financial crisis, was there a most profound or formative experience from that coverage? It was really at the height of it, and when I say the […]
How computers are now writing business news stories
The next business news story you read may have been composed by a computer software program. Major business news organizations such as the Associated Press and Bloomberg have either already begun using computers to write basic business news stories or are exploring ways to use computers to help them write stories. Some of them are […]
Is student loan debt the next crisis for business journalism?
In 1993, the Associated Press ran a story by business reporter Rob Wells called “Fewer Choices Lead Minority Borrowers to Lousy Deals.” In his story, Wells captured how subprime lenders pushed impoverished Americans into unfair loan agreements with absurd interest rates. Wells may not have known it at the time, but he was onto something. […]
How a business journalist wrote a book about M&A
Robert Teitelman was the founding editor of The Daily Deal and the The Deal magazine, and the longtime author of the magazine’s opening column, “Transactions.” Prior to The Deal, he was a writer at Forbes and the editor of Institutional Investor magazine. Besides the recent “Bloodsport: When Ruthless Dealmakers, Shrewd Ideologues, and Brawling Lawyers Toppled […]
Toronto biz editor: Companies more aggressive about coverage
Companies are becoming more aggressive in trying to control the coverage that they receive in the media, said Paul Waldie, the business editor at the Globe and Mail in Toronto, in a TedX talk at Queens University. Waldie gave several examples, including a major Canadian retailer who said that it would no longer talk to the […]
Starkman: The biz media won’t catch the next crisis
Asher Schechter of ProMarket, the blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, interviewed media critic Dean Starkman about the financial media’s coverage of the 2008 economic crisis. Here is an excerpt: Q: Eight years after the financial crisis, do you think business media is now better positioned to recognize […]
What caused McLean to write about Enron
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviewed the journalist and author Bethany McLean, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and best known for writing one of the first stories critical of Enron when she was at Fortune. McLean, co-author of the Enron book “The Smartest Guys in the Room” with Peter Elkind, first joined Fortune as […]
