The importance of investigative reporting in business journalism
Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review spoke Thursday at Yale University about the media’s failure in predicting the 2008 financial crisis before it occurred to underscore the need for effective investigative journalism, or “accountability reporting.” Tianyi Pan of the Yale Daily News writes, “Starkman told the audience about Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Richard Lord, whom […]
The inside story on business reporting
John Wihbey of The Journalist’s Resource recently spoke with Greg Ip, the U.S. economics editor of The Economist, about his job. Here is an excerpt: JR: What are some pitfalls that young economics reporters should watch out for? Greg Ip: Let cover a few things that are especially important for journalists. Number one is the […]
How a biz journal wrote about obstetrical care
John George, a senior reporter at the Philadelphia Business Journal, writes about how he was one of three journalists from across the country selected to participate in the Association of Health Care Journalists fellowship program on health performance supported by the Commonwealth Fund. His participation led to a three-part series in the paper on obstetrical […]
A biz journalist’s favorite story
Andi Esposito, who is now the managing editor of the Worcester Telegram, writes about her favorite story while working for the paper. Esposito writes, “Looking back over 27 years with the Telegram & Gazette, most of it spent as business editor, I covered thousands of stories. But these three remain most memorable. “Fax machines were […]
The public relations roadblock to accessing company execs
The love/hate relationship between business journalists and a company’s public relations team is a well documented one. To heighten this already contentious relationship, companies frequently use their public relations staff as a roadblock to keep business journalists from calling C-suite executives. Why do companies, particularly publicly traded companies often do this? And is it the best strategy? […]
Analyst fired for talking to biz reporters
A Citigroup tech analyst has been fired from his job after he talked about Facebook’s initial public offering with business journalists. Stephen Foley of the Financial Times writes, “Mr Mahaney, one of the most widely-respected and quoted analysts in his sector, was given a ‘letter of education’ in April this year about his failure to […]
Biz press ignoring that home sales still below pre-recession
Tom Blumer writes that coverage this week that new homes sales are at their highest levels in the past two-and-a-half years, but the business media has ignored the fact that the level is still below new home sales before 2008. Blumer writes, “Here are the headlines and descriptions of today’s report found at the three […]
Life on the wealth beat like any other biz news beat
Robert Frank is an award-winning CNBC journalist, best-selling author and leading journalist authority on the American wealthy.At CNBC, he oversees the “Inside Wealth” portion of its website. Prior to joining CNBC, Frank was with The Wall Street Journal for 18 years, serving as a foreign correspondent in London and Singapore, and later covering Wall Street […]
Covering finance and learning on the job
Mina Kimes, a writer at Fortune, was interviewed by Aaron Lammer in a podcast about her career in business journalism. Among Kimes’ comments in the podcast: “I don’t know if I thought anything about business journalism. In high school, I was reading arts and music journalism.” “It would be great if somewhere we could convince […]
Shifting coverage of government toward a business focus
More journalism needs to cover the federal and state governments as if they were businesses, said Matt Winkler, editor in chief of Bloomberg News, in a speech Tuesday night. Bloomberg’s new service called Bloomberg Government, which launched at the beginning of 2011 set out to “cover the governnment as a business because it is a business,” […]
