When a tech reporter asked Elon Musk for an interview on Twitter
Justin Bariso writes for Inc. magazine about what happened when The Information reporter Amir Efrati asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk for an interview over Twitter. Barison writes, “First things first. I admire a lot about Elon’s ability to inspire others and his efforts to effect real change. At the same time, no one can deny […]
How Detrixhe covers the future of finance
Quartz future of finance reporter John Detrixhe talked with Cognito’s Oliver Mann about his job. Here is an excerpt: OM: Can you tell me about Quartz. What’s the editorial agenda? JD: We aim for a global audience. You have publications like The Atlantic, which is perhaps explaining America to America, or even America to the rest of the world. I […]
How one business journal is diversifying sources in its stories
Rachel Sams, the editor of Albuquerque Business First, writes about how the paper is working to diversify the sources in its stories. Sams writes, “Our newsroom has set group and individual goals for 2018 to help us connect with a wider variety of local businesspeople this year. Here are some of them: “• Each reporter […]
Testy Biz Copy Editor riffs on Challenger & Gray’s tripe
Challenger, Gray & Christmas’s annual estimate of how much money workers cost the U.S. “economy” by watching the NCAA basketball tournament on company time will be out any day now. As always, it should be ignored. The estimate, rivaled in irrelevance and speculation only by PNC Bank’s ridiculous report on the cost of gifts mentioned […]
Tech4Reporters helps journalists understand technology
John Biggs, an editor-at-large at TechCrunch, has launched Tech4Reporters, a web project that links journalists with experts in the tech community free of charge to help solve the problem of journalists not understanding technology. Jonathan Shieber of TechCrunch writes, “The project Biggs developed now reaches 171 journalists with information from a network of 661 technologists, and Biggs […]
When a biz owner wants to review a story before publication
Brian Todd, a reporter for the Post Bulletin in Rochester, Minnesota, writes about how sources often ask to review a story, or a quote, before it’s published. Todd writes, “Hard-working business reporter Jeff Kiger said the people who most often ask to ‘look things over first’ are business owners. Most, he said, have only dealt […]
How a Minneapolis biz news desk is covering the Super Bowl
Thom Kupper is assistant managing editor for business news at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where he oversees a team of 20 reporters and editors. He joined the Star Tribune in 2010 as senior business editor, in charge of the Sunday business section, and moved to his current role in 2015. In his time at the […]
Bloomberg to expand women’s voices project
Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: To All in Editorial & Research, In October 2016, Stephanie Phang and Jodi Schneider started the Women’s Voices project in Asia Pacific with the aim of increasing the number of female experts and officials we quote in stories and on broadcast. This number is […]
Testy Biz Copy Editor: Too much of this going around
Farewell columns are always tiresome. This one is especially so. This guy was a financial editor once, but it’s clear that he didn’t like it much. It’s a dirty secret that many business editors get their jobs because no one else wants them and it’s a “take it or […]
The Kovacevich test of business journalism
Aaron Elstein, a senior reporter at Crain’s New York Business, writes about what makes news for his publication. Elstein writes, “But boss, I pleaded, the story is about a banking executive who is opening branches in supermarkets all over the South. Folks who could never make a withdrawal or deposit a check at Piggly Wiggly […]
