Writing biz news books a special art
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The task of writing a book about a business news event by a journalist takes an ability to collect and gather facts that are often useless in daily business journalism, said three book authors Sunday. “You learn things that I don’t think I can sell to Larry [Ingrassia, New York Times […]
Pulitzer winner Berzon talks about covering construction deaths
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Alexandra Berzon began working for the Las Vegas Sun as a business reporter in 2007. She has also worked as a reporter for technology magazine Red Herring, the Anchorage Daily News and the San Antonio Express-News. Berzon was the primary reporter for the Las Vegas Sun’s construction deaths on the Strip […]
Remembering Annette Haddad
The career of Los Angeles Times real estate reporter Annette Haddad was remembered Thursday in a story in the paper. Haddad died Wednesday at 46 from cancer. Jon Thurber writes, “Versatile and engaged, Haddad performed many editing functions in Business over the next nine years, including assignment editor for the airline, tourism, retailing and agriculture […]
The voice of business journalism needs to change
Adam Davidson, international business and economics correspondent for National Public Radio, talks with Zachary Seward of the Neiman Journalism Lab about how he and colleague Alex Blumberg cover business news differently than the rest of the media world. Here’s an excerpt: Davidson: I mean, I’ve been thinking, I wanna do like a story or something. […]
Investigative reporting workshop and MSNBC.com launch bank tracker
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, in conjunction with msnbc.com, has launched a system for business journalists called BankTracker that examines banks to determine which ones are financially secure and which ones are in danger. The analysis is based on reports every bank is required to file each quarter with […]
Dell refuses to divulge number for layoffs to reporter
Scott Sexton, a columnist for the Winston-Salem Journal, writes Tuesday about the difficulty one of the paper’s reporters had in getting the exact number of employees work at a Dell plant in the area after layoffs were announced. Sexton writes, “In the days after the announcement of layoffs, finding out how many people worked at […]
A dogged reporter
David Sharos of The Wheaton Sun in suburban Chicago profiles Fox Business Network reporter Sandra Smith and discovers that her superiors think she bas become a more fierce reporter since she joined the network. Sharos writes, “Smith’s bosses — such as Ray Hennessey, director for business news and an editorial/managing editor for foxbusiness.com, have taken […]
Dial-a-quote economists
Ted Vaden, the public editor of The (Raleigh) News & Observer, writes about the frequency with which economists are quoted by business reporters at the paper. Vaden writes, “Are there any other economists in North Carolina besides Michael Walden? “I wondered that last week, after reading the latest story on the recession that quoted the […]
Did Yahoo leak information to a reporter?
Elise Ackerman and Pete Carey of the San Jose Mercury News write Thursday about a case where Internet search engine Yahoo! is being accused of leaking critical information about a former employee to a San Francisco reporter. Ackerman and Carey write, “The story centers on Eulonda Skyles, an African-American attorney who has filed a discrimination […]
Steiger: Biz journalism better, but could be more skeptical
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Paul Steiger, the former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and now the head of ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative journalism operation, says business journalism has improved a lot in the past 25 years, but it could be even better. “Reporters and editors understand much better the importance of the credit […]
