How to cover sinking retailers
No company enjoys admitting that it is having financial troubles or is in danger of shutting its doors, and typically does everything in its power to spin a positive outlook to the media and consumers. This desire to maintain a successful image makes it even trickier for a reporter to cover foundering companies. In my […]
Retiring biz editor’s advice: Interview people smarter than you
Steve Sink, the retiring business editor at the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in New York, wrote his farewell column and offered advice to those remaining in the industry. Sink wrties, “I’m grateful to Editor Karen Magnuson for taking a chance on a 57-year-old who insisted he still had plenty of gas left in the tank. […]
Business news is about real people
Jimmy Settle, the business editor of the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle in Tennessee, writes about how business news coverage is really about people more than money. Settle writes, “The fact that Hemlock Semiconductor is building a $1.2 billion polysilicon plant means that, not only is the company going to be a major employer paying good wages, […]
Bloomberg’s FOI requests fail to get documents
Nine of 15 cabinet offices have yet to release details of their out-of-town travel records six months after Bloomberg News filed requests for those documents under the Freedom of Information Act. Jim Snyder and Danielle Ivory of Bloomberg News write, “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Kathleen Sebelius of the Department […]
The launching of an investigative biz reporting group
Ben Steelman of the Wilmington Star-News in North Carolina writes Saturday about investigative business reporter Roddy Boyd‘s Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation. Steelman writes, “Boyd followed that up by launching SIRF as a non-profit corporation with a board of directors including Christopher Roush, the director of business journalism at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; […]
How Bloomberg photographers cover business news
Andrew Beaujon of The Poynter Institute writes Friday about how photographers for Bloomberg News cover business news. Beaujon writes, “Scott Eells shot his photograph of a person under an umbrella passing by the corner of Wall and Broad streets in New York on May 9, when stocks had fallen sharply and Greece’s political troubles were […]
When a biz journalist must get adversarial with a PR person
Richard Dukas, who runs a public relations firm in New York, wrote earlier this week here on Talking Biz News about how business journalists can get the most out of their relationships with PR people. His piece has got some great advice. Dukas advised that business journalists should avoid having an adversarial relationship with PR […]
How journalists can get the most from their relationship with a PR firm
Most reporters think PR agency executives are pests, either bothering them on a daily basis to write about their clients or blocking access to sources. But that doesn’t mean building strong relationships with the right PR people isn’t valuable. In fact, it can be extremely helpful over the long term for reporting and career development. […]
Twitter’s Luckie talks strategy for journalists
As a way to develop better social media engagement strategies, journalists should treat Twitter and other outlets as an extension of their interaction with people in their personal life rather than as a separate entity, said Mark Luckie, manager of journalism and news at Twitter in a conference call with Forbes writers from New York […]
Getting Apple’s CEO to talk
Julie Moos of the Poynter Institute was able to get Bloomberg Businessweek editor in chief Josh Tyrangiel to answer some questions about its cover-story this week, which was an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook. Here is an excerpt: Poynter: How did the interview come about? Josh Tyrangiel: Businessweek has had a good relationship with […]
