How the NYTimes investigated arbitration
Adam Aton of Investigative Reports and Editors writes about how New York Times reporters Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Michael Corkery reported and wrote a three-part series on the rise of arbitration clauses and cases. Aton writes, “Even though arbitration hearings are opaque by design, the Times found a few ways to glean enough data to discern some trends. Silver-Greenberg knew California […]
How Sqoop helps business journalists find news
Steven Goldsmith of the Puget Sound Business Journal interviewed Bill Hankes, the CEO of Seattle-based Sqoop, the service that helps business reporters find stories in public documents. Here is an excerpt: How will you scale? Our demand has been pretty brisk, with our base of reporters growing 40 percent month over month. Very soon, one in […]
How an AP reporter broke the Coke obesity story
Paul Colford of the Associated Press interviewed AP food and beverage reporter Candice Choi about the story she broke on how Coca-Cola Co. was a guiding force behind a nonprofit group founded to fight obesity. Here is an excerpt: How did this story come about? In August, The New York Times reported that Coke had funded a new group […]
How ACBJ uses data to tell stories across its 40-plus markets
Jon Wile, who joined the company in 2012 from the Washington Post, oversees the design of American City Business Journals products and works with the 43 individual business journal markets to support high standards of execution against those designs across all platforms. He also trains local markets on storytelling, design standards, workflow processes/efficiencies, hiring and […]
Get your head in the game, business reporter
If you’re a business journalist, you have to have your head in the game the moment you walk through the office door. Earlier even. Like the movie says, money never sleeps. So your beat or assignment could have, quite literally, had a major change overnight. Sure, that can happen in any journalistic area. But for […]
Insight: Covering Black Friday — The new Olympics
We previously described earnings season as a business journalist’s version of Christmas. Well if it’s Christmas, then Black Friday is a business journalist’s Olympics. Black Friday and the days that follow force retail reporters to race around shopping centers searching for an interesting take on what is as nothing short of a marathon. The National Retail Federation, […]
Sqoop raises money from investors
Sqoop, a site that helps business journalists find stories in public documents, has raised $176,000 in funding, writes John Cook of GeekWire. Cook writes, “Sqoop just raised a small round of cash to help push the data journalism startup forward, including money from the Seattle Angel Conference and Dave McClure’s 500 Startups. Hankes, the former director […]
How Sqoop helps business journalists break news
Bill Hankes is founder and CEO of Sqoop, a news discovery service journalists use to discover news tips from public data sites such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and federal court system. Although Sqoop is less than a year old, it has quickly gained advocates in newsrooms. “Based on […]
When company earnings become a story
Paul O’Donnell, the business editor of the Dallas Morning News, writes about how his reporters cover earnings stories. O’Donnell writes, “We add value for our readers by providing meaningful analysis of quarterly results. Our retailing writer, Maria Halkias, knows the story of J.C. Penney’s turnaround better than anyone who isn’t involved in actually executing it. […]
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Social media has become a part of our everyday lives, and reporters seem to be using it more than ever. We at Talking Biz News want to know how often you use social often and what you’re using it for. TAKE THE SURVEY HERE. In October, the Columbia Journalism Review detailed journalists use of social […]
