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...
A technology journalist has created a website that helps other reporters get answers to questions about technology. Tech4Reporters was created by John Biggs, who writes for TechCrunch, so that reporters can ask questions about...
Business journalist Bethany McLean was interviewed by Patrick O’Shaughnessy on the “Invest like the Best” about how she researches companies. “I think the process of throughly researching an investment is really analogous of what...
Reporters in the financial media world will inevitably need to source their articles with experts who are new to them, and perhaps not well known in the finance community. So how do reporters audit...
Kara Swisher of Recode interviewed Michael Barbaro of the New York Times — who now hosts its podcast “The Daily” — on the Recode Decode podcast, and one of the topics they discussed was how he...
Whitney Curry Wimbish writes for The Baffler about why business journalism rarely does investigations. Wimbish writes, “Journalists, like economists, are worried that if they step outside those common explanations they’ll be branded as radicals and...
