Why energy coverage sucks
Chris Nelder, a columnist at SmartPlanet.com, writes about the problems he sees when journalists cover energy and provides some suggestions when reading such coverage. They include: 1. Be skeptical. You will have to make up for the missing skepticism and curiosity of the journalists you’re reading. If the article is all sunshine and roses, and […]
A new business news term?
TheStreet.com‘s top headline for the unified central bank action taken Wednesday morning coins a new word. Is this something that your media organization would use as well?
What happens when you find a hiding executive
A Reuters reporter found a Japanese banker who is a key figure in the Olympus Corp accounting scandal at a luxury apartment block in Hong Kong on Sunday. James Pomfret of Reuters writes, “The whereabouts of the former PaineWebber banker had been unknown until Sunday. Nakagawa looked startled when a reporter introduced himself outside the […]
Covering the evolving retail beat
Bob Mong, the editor of the Dallas Morning News, writes Sunday about the paper’s retail reporter, Maria Halkias. Mong writes, “When the nation’s leading business writing organization set up a training program on how to cover ‘the holiday retail season in a down economy,’ it knew whom to turn to for advice — Maria Halkias […]
The importance of Twitter in disseminating business news
Heidi Moore, the New York bureau chief of American Public Media’s “Marketplace” who covers Wall Street, writes about using Twitter as a tool to improve business coverage. Moore writes, “Twitter is a great underminer of the rigid ivory-tower voice-of-God news judgment that has fed a lot of arrogance into journalists and journalism, and which has […]
Biz reporter on learning new tricks
Brian Stelter, a media reporter at The New York Times, talks at the Mashable conference about how he uses new technology such as Twitter to improve the quality of his reporting and writing.
Surviving the business reporter Olympics
Allison Miles, a business reporter for the Victoria Advocate in Texas, writes Friday about what it’s like to cover Black Friday. Miles writes, “Comfortable shoes are a must, for instance, while dressing in layers means you can keep cozy when outside, and shed some off when you reach the warm indoors. “One should always keep […]
What Andrew Ross Sorkin reads
Andrew Ross Sorkin, who oversees the Dealbook site for the New York Times and writes a column in the Tuesday business section, talked with Erik Hayden of The Atlantic about what he reads to keep up with business and financial news. Sorkin said: I first hit The New York Times front page, business section and […]
Advice for covering Black Friday
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Sue Stock, the former retail reporter for The (Raleigh) News & Observer, sent out several years ago a memo to the N&O’s business desk staff on how to cover Black Friday. I republished her suggestions, with her approval, in the second edition of “Show me the Money: Writing Economics and Business […]
How to succeed in financial journalism
Hedge fund manager, author and blogger James Altucher, who was a columnist for the Financial Times from 2004 to 2009, posts on his blog his eight keys for success in financial journalism. Here are the first four: 1) Scoops are no longer important. It used to be if you had a scoop you had at […]
