SABEW convention is less than three months away
Now’s a good time to make plans to attend SABEW’s annual conference. It will be held Sunday, April 30, to Tuesday, May 2, in Minneapolis-St. Paul, which is at its northern best in the spring. Among the topics: *How to solve thorny convergence issues; *How to cover health care as a business; *Proven methods to […]
More on Donald Trump and
Michael Lewis, the acclaimed author of Liar’s Poker and Moneyball, writes a column for Bloomberg News. In his most-recent column, he took up the issue of New York real estate developer Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York Times business writer Timothy O’Brien for defaming him by allegedly underreporting his networth in the new book TrumpNation. […]
Smaller newspapers are business blogging as well
Although many large metropolitan newspapers such as the San Jose Mercury News, Houston Chronicle and Denver Post have business reporters or columnists blogging, I’ve discovered that some smaller papers are also getting into the act. At The Herald in Everett, Wash., just north of Seattle, they have had two business-related blogs for the past two […]
How did the media miss the Enron scandal?
Paul Maidment, editor of Forbes.com and executive editor of Forbes, had some ideas as to why the field of business journalism missed the Enron scandal before it exploded, and they come from two academics who have studied the relationship between the business media and the market. In a column last week, Maidment wrote, “It is […]
Humor in the Wall Street Journal
Sanjay Parekh, a blogger and founder of Digital Envoy, was amused on Friday to find some humor in a Wall Street Journal article about Burger King’s IPO. Parekh wrote: “In an article (subscription required) about the upcoming IPO of Burger King, the Wall Street Journal sent out a snippet of how the private equity firms […]
Newsday biz editor leaves for Bloomberg
Rick Green, assistant managing editor for business and technology at Newsday, announced to his staff on Thursday that he would be leaving to join news service Bloomberg as an editor at large. Green will be replaced by business editor Benjamin Weller, who now becomes AME for biz and technology, according to sources within the newspaper. […]
Carol
I’ve had an e-mail conversation the past few days with Carol Kleiman, the syndicated workplace columnist for the Chicago Tribune who recently retired. I posed a number of questions about her thoughts about workplace and labor reporting in business journalism. Here are some of her responses: Q: How difficult was it initially to write about […]
Former WSJ reporter calls for more proactive coverage
Jonathan Weil, the Wall Street Journal reporter who left the paper at the beginning of the year to go work for proxy advisor Glass, Lewis & Co., said in an interview that he did not leave the business newspaper out of dissatisfaction with the paper or with what he was writing about, but more to […]
Reporting tips from Fast Company writer
Charles Fishman, a contributing editor to Fast Company magazine, spoke to one of my classes this afternoon. Charles is very animated when it comes to talking about journalism, and he shared some of his tips in finding sources when it came to writing his book The Wal-Mart Effect. Here are some things he found helpful: […]
A twist on the stock-picking story
The Chicago Sun-Times handles its stock-picking story unlike any other paper I’ve seen. It doesn’t have readers compete against pros or reporters, and it doesn’t have a dart pick stocks. Instead, it asks its readers to send in their stock picks, and it offers a trip to the reader whose stock goes up the most. […]
