SPJ president urges biz journalists to stop relying on inside-baseball stories
Christine Tatum, an assistant business editor at the Denver Post, became president of the Society of Professional Journalists in August, becoming one of only a handful of leaders in the organization’s history who focused on business reporting. Tatum, 35, was a reporter for the Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina and for the Arlington […]
SABEW statement on Hewlett-Packard pretexting
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers, a trade group representing 3,500 financial journalists, is outraged that any company would stoop to unethical — if not illegal — means to gain access to a reporter’s telephone records. According to news reports, Hewlett-Packard officials hired private investigators to learn who talked to the media about […]
Writing workshop before SABEW conference
Turn Your Business Story Idea Into Reality! Get one-on-one coaching from financial experts and top business editors. MORNING: One-on-one help researching your story idea and analyzing financial information to give your story depth from experts provided by CFA Institute (Chartered Financial Analysts). LUNCH: Writing tips from Susan Rasky, professor of Journalism at University of California, […]
MSNBC names new biz editor
MSNBC.com has named Martin Wolk as the business editor for the site. Wolk has covered the stock market, the tech industry and the economy for the Web site, the online home of NBC News product, since joining from Reuters in 1999. In a pre-digital age, he worked as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers […]
Talking Biz News celebrates one-year anniversary
The blog Talking Biz News celebrates its first birthday today, Aug. 31, 2006. The idea for a blog devoted to the discussion of issues surrounding business journalism and news events actually goes back to mid-2005 as part of talks among members of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ education committee. It just took […]
Scholarships available to SABEW fall conference
A scholarship to the SABEW Fall Workshop on Oct. 30 and 31, valued at nearly $700, is being offered by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. The workshop is being held in New York City at the headquarters of Bloomberg News. The scholarship covers the $175 registration fee and two nights lodging […]
New Bloomberg HQ is dazzling
Bloomberg’s new headquarters in midtown Manhattan has drawn the attention of Fast Company magazine, which is featuring the stunning building in a pictorial on its Web site. You can see the pictorial here. “We put edgy art around to encourage people to think differently,” says CEO Lex Fenwick. Visitors to the sixth floor are met […]
Biz journalism professors question Cuban's tactics
One day after an editorial on the topic in the newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s business section published a story written by Heather Landy in which business journalism professors questioned the tactics taken by billionaire Mark Cuban in investing in stocks before publication written about on the investigative business journalism web site ShareSleuth.com he is […]
SABEW receives $25,000 grant for ethics
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers has been awarded $25,000 from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation to launch several ethics-based initiatives. The grant is the second awarded this year to SABEW from the Oklahoma City-based journalism foundation. In May, the group received a challenge grant funded by Ethics and Excellence as […]
There are government numbers, and then there is the truth
Orange County Register columnist Jon Lansner, a former SABEW president, notes in his real estate blog that government statistics are notoriously bad, yet many business and economics journalists continue to report them as if they were the truth. He uses the new home sales statistics as an example: “News flash! New homes sales nationwide were […]
