Gombossy to step down as Courant biz editor
George P. Gombossy, editor of The Hartford Courant’s business section since 1995 and a SABEW board member, will leave his post in November to write an investigative consumer column that will debut early next year, according to a story in Tuesday’s paper.His new column, tentatively titled “At Your Service,” will research people’s complaints, concerns and […]
Real estate downturn is not media's fault
Orange County Register business columnist Jon Lansner, the former SABEW president, responded in his Wednesday column to the readers who believe that it is the media’s fault that real estate prices are beginning to fall. Lansner wrote, “Gary Watts, the Orange County industry’s widely watched forecaster, cites news coverage as a major, depressing market force […]
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 […]
