Fall SABEW and "Biz Journalism 101" registration now available
Registration is now available for the fall Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference, to be held Oct. 20-21 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Registration, which is $175 before Sept. 14, can be completed online here. This year’s fall conference will feature a number of sessions designed to improve the […]
SABEW president gets new job
SABEW president Gail DeGeorge has been named Sunday/enterprise editor for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. DeGeorge, who has been business editor at the Sun-Sentinel since May 1998, will still be involved in business news, helping to guide stories to 1-A on Sundays. DeGeorge leads an award-winning department, which has been named a “Best in Business” winner […]
New SABEW president talks about business journalism
Gail DeGeorge, who was elected president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers last week, is the Sun-Sentinel’s business editor, a position she has held for nine years. She is responsible for directing the coverage of South Florida’s business community by a staff of ten reporters, four assistant editors and an editorial assistant. […]
Freedom CEO: Spice up biz coverage
Scott Flanders, the CEO of Freedom Communications, which owns the Orange County Register and other papers across the country, suggested that business sections add more flair to their coverage. Flanders was speaking at the annual Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference earlier this week. His comments were posted by Colin Stewart of the Register […]
Serious one week, offbeat the next
Sheryl Harris, the consumer columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, provided some tups on column writing at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers fall conference in Anaheim, Calif. Among her suggestions: Mix it up. Serious one week? Try something offbeat the next. If you can use elements of narrative, do it. If you […]
Disney CEO not worried about who owns WSJ
Todd Bishop, a reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, wrote about comments made by Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger at the annual Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference about what the thinks about News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch‘s bid to acquire Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal. Iger […]
New SABEW board members elected
Miami Herald business editor Lisa Gibbs, University of North Carolina professor Chris Roush, Dow Jones Newswires reporter Dawn Wotapka Hardesty, CNBC reporter Rebecca Jarvis and SmartMoney.com editor Ray Hennessey were elected for the first time to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers board on Tuesday. Re-elected to the board were Seattle Times business […]
How to fix business journalism
Marek Fuchs, TheStreet.com’s media critic who was on a panel that I organized and moderated at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers annual conference on what’s wrong with business journalism, publishing his introductory speech Monday. In part, Fuchs wrote, “Here’s my solution. Though a wall exists between a news outlet’s journalistic and business […]
Tips on improving your business coverage
Steve Kaskovich, assistant managing editor for business at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and Dave Berman, business editor of Florida Today, offered tips at the annual Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference on improving business coverage. One of Kaskovich’s suggestions was to “be excellent at something.” His tips: Set priorities. What’s your important beat? […]
Best interviewers are the best listeners
The best interviewers are those who listen to what’s being said, according to two FBI agents who spoke at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers annual conference on Tuesday. In addition, interviewers make mistakes by jumping to wrong conclusions, being inattentive to the person they’re talking to, being impatient, doing only one interviiew […]
