Kansas City Star biz columnist retiring
Jerry Heaster, dean of The Kansas City Star’s business desk, is retiring — bringing an end to a long and distinguished career in business journalism. He wrote more than 5,000 columns in the past 27 years, according to a story in this morning’s paper. Star reporter Chris Lester wrote, “Heaster, 67, cited health issues as […]
Business journalism: At a crossroads?
I had an interesting conversation with Herb Greenberg, the California-based columnist for Marketwatch.com, about an issue that was recently posted on Talking Biz News. And he made an interesting side comment that has stuck in my mind since I hung up the phone. What Greenberg, formerly of TheStreet.com and of the San Francisco daily, said […]
Loren Steffy slams unethical journalists
Houston Chronicle business columnist Loren Steffy wrote the column this morning that probably a lot of columnists should be writing. His message: I am not for sale. Steffy (Disclosure: I know Steffy. We worked together at Bloomberg. Last summer at SABEW in Seattle, we had a few beers.) was responding to the recent spate of […]
Naked shorts using business journalism for hysteria
That’s the opinion of former BusinessWeek investigative reporter Gary Weiss, whose book “Wall Street versus America” is about to come out. He argues in a post on his blog that the anti-naked shorts such as Overstock.com President Patrick Byrne make accusations about the business journalism media to support their theory that naked shorting is bad. […]
SABEW seeks board members
If you’d like to have a say in how the national organization runs itself, then now is the time to consider running for a spot to be a board member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Here is the announcement: Six SABEW board positions open up every year. We also fill the […]
Register-Guard in Oregon adds business section on Wednesdsay and Friday
The Register-Guard, the daily newspaper in Eugene, Ore., announced in the Sunday paper that it would add section fronts for the business section on Wednesdays and Fridays. It’s nice to see a newspaper expanding its business news hole rather than contracting it. “Readers have complained for a long time about not being able to locate […]
School raising money to honor biz reporter who died suddenly
The University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences is raising money to honor Benita Newton, the Virginian-Pilot business reporter who died suddenly last summer. To read the story in the Tuscaloosa News, go here. The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is also raising money to create a program to encourage minorities […]
SABEW adds columnist category to BEST in BUSINESS
SABEW has added a new category to its annual Best in Business contest. They are now opening it up for columnists. A student category was added last year. The column category will break down into the same circulation divisions as its breaking news, enterprise and projects categories. There also will be an additional category for […]
Credentials for business reporters
This blog argues that the way to improve the quality of journalism, including economics journalism, is to have some sort of credentialing system. Specifically, it states: “Another possible response is improved journalistic credentialling. Why don’t all journalists have the same sorts of credentials that TV meteorologists do? There should be credentials in economics reporting, health […]
Test SABEW's new contest application system
This Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005, SABEW needs help in testing our new online entry registration process for the 2006 Best in Business contest. It’s worth looking at. It’s pretty cool and could eventually pare its data-entry expenses. From 11 a.m. To 1 p.m. CENTRAL TIME on Wednesday, could you please click on to the link […]
