A biz reporter who writes about manure
Hayleigh Colombo, the business reporter for the Journal & Courier in Lafayette, Ind., writes about what it is like covering business stories two months into the job. Colombo writes, “Each source I’ve talked to, no matter his or her background, has helped me inform readers about fascinating topics that I never imagined I’d be reporting […]
Getting it right vs. getting it wrong
Tom Keene of Bloomberg Television muses about the importance of business journalists getting it right vs. getting it wrong. Keene write, “In my fancy leather wallet, I have pasted my simple security badge the day, years ago, when I visited Apple. Bloomberg on the Economy was a success and the good people of Cupertino had […]
Grateful for biz reporting skills
The Online News Association talked with Naila Boodhoo, who covers business stories for WBEZ in Chicago, about her career. Here is an excerpt: What happens during your average day? If there isn’t breaking news, I’m working on a feature story, so could be prepping for interviews, out in the field, back in the office logging […]
Problems with Twitter coverage
Chris O´Brien of the San Jose Mercury News has some issues with how Twitter´s revenue projections were covered by the business media. O´Brien writes, ¨Late last week, Bloomberg reported that Twitter expects to hit $1 billion in revenueby 2014, at least two years earlier than analysts had projected. The projection was attributed to two unnamed […]
Biz journalists, PR and embargoes
Sabrina Husain, a student at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication, writes about the relationship between business journalists and PR professionals over embargoed material. Husain writes, “The public relations embargo has been a significant point of conflict between these two groups. An embargo is a tool used by PR professionals to give […]
The reporter who saw it coming
Mike Hudson, the Roanoke Times reporter who began writing about the problems in the subprime mortgage industry in the early 1990s, gives a first-person account in the May/June issue of Columbia Journalism Review about his experiences in covering what became a national story. Here is an excerpt: It was very exciting. We worked really hard […]
New biz reporter asks for advice from biz community
Brittany Hoover, the new business reporter at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal in Texas, asks her readers for advice on what they want to see in terms of business coverage. Hoover writes, “Please share with me the types of stories you would like to see more of, as well as the business professionals you’d like to know […]
Motley Fool bans bloggers from pharma, biotech unless they’re experts
Roger Friedman, the head of the blogging network at The Motley Fool, sent out the following e-mail to its bloggers on Friday: Browsing our not-so-greatest hits, we noticed that a large majority of our errors come in posts that discuss biotech and pharmaceutical companies. It turns out that it’s not so easy to understand the […]
How business journalism has changed
Herb Greenberg, the senior stocks commentator at CNBC, writes about how his job has changed after 40 years in journalism given social media and new technology. Greenberg writes, “Like most journalists, I always tried to have some kind of edge and, if at all possible, be first with something good. I kicked all of that […]
How a Syrian refugee influenced one business journalist
Henry Dubroff, the editor and founder of the Pacific Coast Business Times, writes about how Marwan Jabri, a Syrian refugee and banking reporter for the newspaper in Springfield, Mass., influenced him when he started working at the paper. Dubroff writes, “Marwan had a gift for understanding the sometimes arcane accounting of the banking business. He […]
