How journalists can spot stories in data
Daniel Mark Harrison writes on his blog about how business reporters can increasingly find stories in data instead of having others point out the significance of the data. Harrison writes, “The purpose of this post is not to reveal what the results are – that would be writing the story, then, after all. Rather, it is to […]
Covering the GM airbag recall
Bob Goetz, assistant editor for the business desk of the New York Times, describes the all-hands-on-deck approach to presenting the months-long story on the greater impact of auto recalls by the paper in a Times Insider piece. Goetz writes: It was April, and for weeks, reporters including the Detroit bureau chief, Bill Vlasic, along with […]
Bloomberg’s Winkler: Enterprise stories should include one female voice
Bloomberg News editor in chief Matthew Winkler included the following in his weekly notes to the staff: All Bloomberg News enterprise work must include at least one woman’s voice, and preferably a balance of men and women. Women are engaged in every topic we cover. Our journalism should reflect that variety. See MSG6 BNWOMENSOURCE for […]
Best Business Writing 2014 is now available
The Best Business Writing 2014, edited by Columbia Journalism Review’s Dean Starkman and Ryan Chittum, is now available. The anthology of the year’s best business investigative writing includes provocative essays on the ongoing collapse of American middle-class jobs under the weight of maximizing shareholder values (Washington Post); the underground networks of financial exchange that insulate […]
When a divorce becomes a business story
Reuters correspondent Joshua Schneyer was Reuters was first to report that Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion in a divorce judgment. Here is an excerpt: Q. How did you score this exclusive? A. I got a tip that a new document had just appeared in Oklahoma’s court filing system. […]
Reuters extends word limit on stories to global bureaus
Dayan Candappa, editor of The Americas for Reuters, sent out the following message on Monday: When the Americas rolled out a new approach to managing story length earlier this year, many of you asked when the initiative would go global. The answer is this week. My colleagues Jean Yoon and Richard Mably have told their […]
TheStreet CEO: We pay for journalists to become certified in Google Analytics
TheStreet.com chief executive officer Elisabeth DeMarse spoke Monday night at the Knight-Bagehot Fellows dinner at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Here is an excerpt: I meet with many reporters, and many times the person says, “I just want to report the news; my job is just to give the facts, not explain it or […]
Insight: Covering Coach Yellen and the game of economics
Not many people would compare Federal Reserve Board chair Janet Yellen to New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin, but for Wall Street Journal chief economics correspondent Jon Hilsenrath that’s exactly what she is. And as the Federal Open Market Committee goes into the second day of its October meeting, Yellen and her team are gearing […]
Covering the pharma beat for CNBC
Brian Flood of TVNewser.com interviewed CNBC reporter Meg Tirrell about how she covers the biotechnology and pharmaceutical beat. Here is an excerpt: TVNewser: You joined CNBC about six months ago. What’s been the biggest surprise so far? Tirrell: Taking the question literally, my biggest surprise probably was when our 5pm show, “Fast Money,” asked me […]
The intersection of political and business reporting gains prominence
Media outlets are covering more stories that discuss the intersection of politics and business because of the financial crisis that the country experienced in 2008 and 2009, said Joshua Green, a senior national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek, on Tuesday. “Government is at the heart of global and U.S. financial health,” said Green. “My job is […]
