WSJ seeks Alphabet/Google reporter

The Wall Street Journal is seeking an experienced, aggressive and insightful reporter to cover Alphabet/Google, one of the world’s biggest and most important companies. The beat is as complex as it is large, covering a broad portfolio: Google’s massive core search and advertising business, its foray into cloud services and infrastructure, its Youtube and Android […]

International Biz Times seeks retail reporter

The International Business Times, a leading source of real-time news and intelligence about the global and national economies, seeks an aggressive, enterprising and competitive beat writer to anchor our retail and fashion reporting on our Money team. The position is based in our newsroom in New York. The ideal candidate brings an obsession with retail […]

Coverage: New York’s Chick-fil-A remains closed

Chick-fil-A’s first standalone location in the Big Apple opened just three months ago, but it is already facing what appears to be big trouble. The restaurant, famous for its chicken sandwich, remains closed after receiving six health code violations in late December. And company officials have not said when the franchise might reopen; sorry New Yorkers. […]

Coverage: Shoppers shift online for Black Friday

Fighting it out for a new television is the new normal for Black Friday shoppers, but with the rise of online shopping, Black Friday is becoming a bit more civil. Now customers are saving big by sitting at home, with retailers pushing more deals online. On Black Friday, customers were estimated to have spent $2.7 billion online, jumping […]

Insight: Covering Black Friday — The new Olympics

We previously described earnings season as a business journalist’s version of Christmas. Well if it’s Christmas, then Black Friday is a business journalist’s Olympics. Black Friday and the days that follow force retail reporters to race around shopping centers searching for an interesting take on what is as nothing short of a marathon. The National Retail Federation, […]

Coverage: Thanksgiving — All about the deals, not the turkey

Black Friday has become synonymous with madness and with the National Retail Federation projecting 135.8 million shoppers hitting the stores and online this weekend, it’s not going away anytime soon. And in order to better thrive off the consumer frenzy, some stores are pushing their luck and transitioning Black Friday more onto Thanksgiving Day itself. […]

Coverage: Walmart’s profit slips ahead of holidays

With holiday shopping in full swing, the world’s largest retailer Walmart is gearing up for its biggest time of the year. The Arkansas company posted its latest quarterly earnings Tuesday, and despite a growth in U.S. sales, profits for the retail giant slipped 11 percent. Sarah Nassauer of The Wall Street Journal summed up the […]

Coverage: Macy’s posts another disappointing quarter

It was another rough quarter for Macy’s and shares plunged 14 percent as a result, but the store known for its Thanksgiving Day parade and star logo might not be done yet. Nandita Bose and Sruthi Ramakrishnan of Reuters detailed the overall problems of the retail industry: Warm weather, low spending by tourists and a pileup […]

Register-Guard seeks business reporter

The Register-Guard in Eugene, Ore., seeks a skilled business reporter to cover retail, economic development and general assignment business news. The successful candidate will produce a high volume of hard news and news-feature articles for Page One and the metro and business sections of our daily print newspaper and for our website, registerguard.com. The ideal […]

Coverage: American Apparel files for Chapter 11

Source: NY Post, Stefan Jeremiah

In a not too surprising turn of events, American Apparel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early Monday morning. The past few years have been difficult for the “Made in the USA” company, with debts piling up, sales dropping and a never-ending lawsuit with its founder Dov Charney all bringing the retailer down. Hiroko Tabuchi of The […]