The Financial Times is warning its journalists if their articles quote too many men, in an attempt to force writers to look for expert women to include in their pieces, reports Jim Waterson of...
Business journalists prefer to write articles with exclusive content that comes from sources inside companies rather than simply disseminating information that companies provide to everyone, according to research released this week. Four business school...
Dan Primack, the business editor at Axios, talked with the “Teach me How to Money” podcast about his career in business news. Primack said he got into journalism in 1999 after running a community...
Richard Eisenberg of Forbes.com interviewed ProPublic contributing reporter Peter Gosselin about his beat covering how companies are treating elderly workers. Here is an excerpt: How did the IBM story come about? I was talking...
Aaron Timms of The Week writes about the nostalgia for the economic crisis that the business news media exhibited during its 10-year anniversary. Timms writes, “The 10th anniversary of the financial crisis has arrived with...
Barbara Serra of Al-Jazeera takes a look at the failure of business journalism in covering the economic crisis 10 years ago and the challenges in covering business and finance issues. “‘The media are still very...
Business Insider global editor in chief Nicholas Carlson spoke with Aditi Singal of Digiday about what it looks for in a reporter. Here is an excerpt: Competing with other business publications. “We still have cost structure advantages over...
Robert Smith of the National Public Radio program “Planet Money” spoke at the Audiocraft Podcast festival about how the shot is put together, taking complex economic ideas and turning them into interesting stories. 2018 is...
Dan Mitchell writes for Columbia Journalism Review about how business journalists are incorrectly comparing a company’s market capitalization to a company’s gross domestic product. Mitchell writes, “Thursday’s USA Today story similarly described what Apple could ‘buy’ with...
Tommy Flaim of TapeACall.com interviewed The Penny Hoarder managing editor John Schlander about how the personal finance news organization ensures credibility in its coverage. Here is an excerpt: How do you ensure your sources contribute to the...
