Covering the business of television
Brian Stelter of the New York Times talks with Chris Ariens of TVNewser.com about how he got started covering the television industry and parlayed that into a job at The Times.
Swisher succeeds by making more phone calls than her competition
Andrea Williams of MediaBistro.com interviewed All Things D’s Kara Swisher about how she covers the technology beat. Here is an excerpt: You’re known for breaking stories and getting scoops before anyone else. Which one are you most proud of or excited you the most when you were writing it? I’m pleased, obviously, with some of […]
Best Business Writing 2013 is now available
An anthology Malcolm Gladwell has called “riveting and indispensable,” The Best Business Writing 2013 is a far-ranging survey of business’s dynamic relationship with politics, culture, and life. This year’s selections include John Markoff (New York Times) on innovations in robot technology and the decline of the factory worker; Evgeny Morozov (New Republic) on the questionable […]
Board members and business journalists
Two conversations I’ve had this week about board members of publicly traded companies have got me thinking about directors and business journalists. The first conversation was with a student in my “Business Reporting” class. Each student in the class has to write a final project paper on a publicly traded company here in North Carolina. […]
Frankie Flack: Running away from Mr. Draper
The return of “Mad Men” last night spurred my thinking about the history of public relations. As I watched the show, and the continuing growth of the fictional agency Sterling Cooper Draper Price, it occurred to me how the public relations industry back then was so young and that the power of PR was still […]
Covering the Chicago business news scene
Chicago Tribune business reporter Ameet Sachdev talked to TribNation about his job. Here is an excerpt: What’s unique about Chicago’s business climate? Its diversity. In nearly 13 years as a business reporter at the Tribune, I’ve covered beats that have included food and agriculture, accounting, aviation and Chicago’s legal community. There’s a never-ending list of […]
Looking into OSHA
The New York Times’ Ian Urbina wrote an incredible story covering worker safety, unenforced regulations and the role of the government agency tasked with overseeing the nearly 8 million work sites in the U.S. The story, which details problems in a North Carolina cushion-making factory, shows how chronic under enforcement of safety rules can harm […]
New to covering business in Indiana
Rick Seltzer, the new business reporter at The Herald-Times in Bloomington, Ind., writes about what he has discovered during his first month on the beat. Seltzer writes, “From what I’ve seen, this area has a vibrant small-business community and a fascinating lineup of manufacturers. Education’s obviously a major economic driver fueling plenty of development. Then […]
WSJ pulls article from website after error
The Wall Street Journal has pulled an article from its website that ran in the paper earlier this week due to an error. The correction online currently states: The article “Grant Flows to Troubled Nonprofit,” originally published on March 25, has been removed because it was incorrect. The Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council isn’t slated […]
Missing the story of how regulations enrich companies
Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist David Cay Johnston writes for American Journalism Review about how business reporters are missing the story about how new regulations are enriching companies at the cost of consumers. Johnston writes, “The costs of these new rules are enormous. Take that railroad industry rule on monopoly pricing. It costs the people of […]
