Using social media to find biz stories
Everybody’s using social media, but where in the billions of status updates and tweets can a journalist find solid sources and important stories? The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is holding a conference call later this month for business journalists who need help in untangling the social media maze. Spend an hour listening […]
SABEW receives grant for investigative reporting training
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers has been awarded a $25,000 grant to provide training in investigative business reporting. The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, based in Oklahoma City, announced the award as part of $1.5 million in grants to 19 journalism organizations nationwide. The grant will help SABEW conduct a series […]
Biz journalism needs more journalists of color
Christopher Nelson, a freelance journalist and graduate student at the Georgetown University Law Center, writes on the National Association of Black Journalists website about the lack of journalists of color he encountered when he attended the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference last month. Nelson writes, “Given the importance of reporting on the […]
Remembering Dave Morrow
Josh Dawsey, a senior at the University of South Carolina, was the inaugural recipient of the David Morrow Scholarship for Business Journalism, named after the former editor in chief of TheStreet.com. He received the award earlier this month at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ annual conference in Indianapolis Dawsey writes about Morrow, […]
Business journalism job market may be improving
Nearly one out of every four business news operations plan to add staffers this year, up from one out of every five in 2011, according to an informal survey of business journalists conducted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. In addition, the percentage of business news operations planning to cut staff in […]
Expose scandals by exploring public records
By Tarini Parti Indiana reporters John Russell and Greg Andrews were both able to expose major scandals in the public and private sectors largely because of the information they learned from digging through public records. Russell, a reporter at the Indianapolis Star, said he made 23 records requests and read hundreds of emails to write a […]
Ten tips to spotting trouble in companies you cover
By Cassie McLean Learning the implications of a just a few corporate decisions may be all it takes to foresee distress within a struggling company, said Mark Tatge, former senior editor at Forbes magazine and a distinguished visiting professor at DePauw University. Tatge spoke at Saturday’s Society of American Business Business Editors and Writers‘ conference […]
Six voted to SABEW board
Six business journalists were elected to serve three-year terms on the Society of American Business Editors and Writers board of governors. Three were incumbents: Kim Quillen, business editor of The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune; Walden Siew, a top news editor at Reuters; and freelancer Jonathan Blum. The other three elected were: Marla Dickerson, deputy business editor […]
Automated reporting and business journalism
By Alex Barinka Business journalists may be racing against heartless competition as automated data-driven stories become more commonplace. Robbie Allen, founder of Automated Insights, has developed computer programs to convert sports data into stories that mirror sports news articles including game previews, post-game stories and player-of-the-week stories. The numbers-based data typical to sports news is […]
Simplifying financial news stories
By Jeanna Smialek Jake Bernstein and ProPublica colleague Jesse Eisinger‘s series on Wall Street’s role in the financial crisis won a Pulitzer Prize for making Wall Street’s role in the financial crisis understandable to a broad audience — and now Bernstein is spreading his ideas about simplifying financial stories. Speaking at Saturday’s Society of American […]
