A business reporter takes on a machine in writing earnings
Stacey Vanek Smith of “Planet Money” writes about how NPR reporter Scott Horsley fared in writing the earnings story for Denny’s Corp. compared to a machine programmed to write the same story. Smith writes, “The rules for the race: Both contenders waited for Denny’s, the diner company, to come out with an earnings report. Once […]
Reuters launches investigative news site
Reuters this week has launched a new microsite featuring access to all Reuters investigations and special reports. The site allows users to access a full archive of investigations produced by Reuters since 2013, sorted by year. Global enterprise editor Mike Williams said: Reporters and editors in Reuters bureaus around the world often ask me what kind of […]
Yahoo sues ex-employee for giving information to reporter
Yahoo Inc. sued a former employee over claims she “brazenly” divulged confidential information about the company to a reporter who was writing a book about Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer’s leadership. Joel Rosenblatt and Brian Womack of Bloomberg News report, “Yahoo claims that Cecile Lal, a former senior director of product management, broke a confidentiality […]
How Bloomberg News won a Pulitzer Prize
Bloomberg News produced a video about the series of articles by reporter Zach Mider that won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. The series of articles was about corporate tax inversions. It was the first Pulitzer awarded to Bloomberg.
WSJ reporter Newman is a life-long skeptic
Matthew Kassel of the New York Observer profiles former Wall Street Journal reporter Barry Newman, who wrote more than 400 A-hed feature stories for the paper’s front page and has a new book out about feature writing called “News to Me.” Kassel writes, “He went to the Journal in 1970 and started out on the […]
Andrew Ross Sorkin: Money is the prism of everything.
Capital New York talked with Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC and the New York Times’ Dealbook about his work. Here is an excerpt: CAPITAL: Between “Squawk Box” and this primetime special, do you try to put on different hats when you do these different shows? SORKIN: I would say that my whole career is effectively […]
Fox Biz’s Smith: Money behind every story
Capital New York interviewed Fox Business Network reporter Sandra Smith, who is co-host of the “Outnumbered” show. Here is an excerpt: CAPITAL: The panel is interesting in that it is not just a group of women and “One Lucky Guy,” it is a mix of journalists and commentators. SMITH: I couldn’t have said it better, […]
Sqoop helps biz journalists find documents fast
Tyler Soper of GeekWire writes about Sqoop, a new online tool that alerts journalists when public documents become available online, based on the companies and topics they choose to follow. Soper writes, “After starting with patent filings and SEC documents, Sqoop is expanding its beta this week to include alerts on federal court records. “Hankes, a […]
New economic data for business journalists to use
Brian Moyer, the director of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, announced new data tools for journalists at a panel at the at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers annual conference in Chicago. Quarterly GDP by industry: Before last year, the quarterly GDP was only available annually. The new quarterly statistics will provide […]
Using social media the right way in business reporting
Each day people are exposed to enough information to fill over 280 newspapers, and the key for journalists is to figure out how to make their coverage stand out. Randy Hlavac, founder of Marketing Synergy Inc and instructor in social media skills at Northwestern University’s Medill School, said the biggest problem for journalists today is that […]
