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 […]
Frankie Flack: Ben Bradlee, you ignorant slut
All the reporters in my Twitter feed are linking, during this sad week of Ben Bradlee’s death at the age of 93, to a Washington Post post titled “A classic Ben Bradlee letter to ‘flacks.’” Bradlee has been responsible for a lot of things we can call “classic.” This ain’t one of them. The brief […]
Three-time Loeb winner celebrates 40 years of reporting
Byron Harris, a reporter with WFAA-TV in Dallas and a three-time Gerald Loeb winner, is celebrating 40 years of working for the station. Jason Trahan of WFAA writes, “Byron Harris won two Peabody awards, four national Edward R. Murrow Awards, and three Gerald Loeb Awards for distinguished business reporting. “Last year, Harris won his sixth […]
A new way of covering corporate earnings
Marketwatch.com editor in chief Jeremy Olshan earlier this month told Talking Biz News that the financial news site was “experimenting with a better way to cover earnings seasons and the sometimes questionable pronouncements of CEOs, which will be a kind of corporate Politifact.” On Monday, Marketwatch posted a prototype of this new earnings story. The […]
