Bloomberg reporter wrote 18 leads for Supreme Court rulings
Bloomberg reporter Greg Stohr, who wrote the stories today about the Supreme Court rulings, had 18 different leads covering a wide variety if possibilities, reports Erik Wemple of the Washington Post. Wemple writes, “The conventional wisdom on speed, alas, hasn’t prevented news organizations from going fast. Following the release of this morning’s Supreme Court ruling […]
This just in, and the rush to publish
In this five-part series, we’ll look at some of the challenges that young business journalists face in today’s media landscape. A common theme running through all five installments is the recognition that avoiding errors is a journalist’s first responsibility. News moves faster, farther and wider than ever before, and given the ever-increasing volatility of markets, […]
Know your stuff: Developing expertise in your coverage
In this five-part series, we’ll look at some of the challenges that young business journalists face in today’s media landscape. A common theme running through all five installments is the recognition that avoiding errors is a journalist’s first responsibility. News moves faster, farther and wider than ever before, and given the ever-increasing volatility of markets, […]
Great reporters leading the way at Forbes
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about some of the magazine’s top reporters who are making a name for themselves. Here are two: Kashmir Hill: Only a few years ago Kashmir was in a magazine writing program at New York University and interning at True/Slant, the startup I founded. Then she joined […]
Why we care about Wal-Mart earnings
With Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reporting “disappointing” earnings Thursday, it’s easy to shrug it off as not that big a deal. Many of Wal-Mart’s core customers continue to struggle in the current economy, making details about sales an interesting window into the broader U.S. situation. Here are a few earnings details from the Wall Street Journal: […]
Access is one of the biz media’s problems
Brett Arends of Marketwatch.com writes about the problems in the media, and includes one that is particularly an issue in financial journalism. Arends writes, “In early 2007, when the subprime crisis first blew up, some executives at big mortgage lending companies were going around telling everyone that their companies were okay. But I reported at […]
Reflecting on one year in business journalism
Jessica Seaman covers energy, Dillard’s Inc., Windstream Corp. and Acxiom Corp. for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. She joined the Democrat-Gazette in May 2012 after graduating from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s in journalism and history. She previously worked for The Daily Tar Heel and interned at four newspapers, including the Democrat-Gazette and […]
How the 2008 crisis impacted financial journalism
Last week, ProPublica and NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute hosted a discussion on the 2008 financial crisis and how, if at all, it impacted our panel of top Wall Street journalists – both their outlook and their work. The discussion included Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica; Chrystia Freeland, Reuters; James B. Stewart, New York Times; and […]
How a business journalist became a banking reporter
Gwen Moritz of Arkansas Business writes about how she become a banking reporter. Moritz writes, “Several things contributed to my journalistic evolution, starting with my desperation to get away from a boss who modeled himself after Captain Queeg. The day my editor at the Nashville (Tenn.) Business Journal told me that I was now a […]
Why aren’t journalists allowed to ask questions on earnings calls?
The quarterly earnings call is much more than a casual conversation among a company’s executives, analysts, investors and the media — it’s a carefully scripted dialogue that is practiced well in advance of a call. The planning and preparation that goes into an earnings call allow little room for journalists to fire questions that may […]
