Developing sources on the Fed beat
Wall Street Journal chief economics correspondent Jon Hilsenrath talks Saturday, March 20, about covering the Federal Reserve Board and the economy. Hilsenrath was speaking at the annual Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference in Phoenix.
Developing and working with sources in business journalism
New York Times senior financial reporter Diana Henriques talked Saturday at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers about developing sources. Henriques has worked at the Times since 1989. She previously worked at Barron’s.
Covering the current economy well
Los Angeles Times syndicated personal finance columnist Kathy Kristof, Arizona State University economist Stephen Happel and Ohio University Williams College of Business dean Ali Malekzadeh talk Friday about current economic coverage. The panel was held at the annual Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference, which began Friday at the Walter Cronkite School of […]
Insider vs. outsider business reporting
Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review reviews New York Times business reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin‘s new book, “Too Big to Fail,” and uses it to explore different business reporting strategies. Starkman writes, “Sorkin’s book helps draw a bright line between deal journalism and the work of accountability-oriented reporters. In the former, the reporter-source relationship […]
Real estate firm president fired after giving reporter data
The president of the largest real estate firm in New Orleans was fired after giving data about the discrepancy between the assessment values and home prices in the area to The Times-Picayune newspaper, writes business reporter Rebecca Mowbray of the paper. Mowbray reports, “Sterbcow said that he had no regrets about pushing for fairness in […]
An ag biz reporter and cow poop
Los Angeles Times staff writer Zohreen Adamjee interviewed the paper’s agriculture business reporter P.J. Huffstutter about how she got her story about the problems California farmers face turning cow manure into electricity. “You are leaving everything tied to Los Angeles behind,” said Huffstutter. “It is fields of green as far as the eyes can see…This […]
Reporter admits conflict of interest
Tom Jackson, a business reporter at the Sandusky Register in Ohio, writes about the conflict of interest he now has in covering a major news story. Jackson writes, “As the business reporter for the Register, I’ve been tasked with covering Cedar Fair and its attempted acquisition by Apollo Global Management. “But I have a possible […]
Reporting the same story twice
Allen Wastler, the managing editor of CNBC.com, notes that one of its TV correspondents reported earlier this week a nice story about the Whistler resort, a venue for many Olympic events under threat of foreclosure, that had been previously reported by one of the business news site’s Web reporters. Wastler writes, “Except for the benefit […]
Reuters reporter accosted at Apple factory in China
A Reuters reporter in China found out the hard way how seriously some Apple suppliers take security. James Pomfret and Kelvin Soh write, “Tipped by a worker outside the Longhua complex that a nearby Foxconn plant was manufacturing parts for Apple too, our correspondent hopped in a taxi for a visit to the facility in […]
LATimes biz editor on Toyota coverage
Los Angeles Times business editor John Corrigan talks about the paper’s investigation of the problems with Toyota cars. The Times, according to some critics, has been ahead of other media in covering this story.
