Layoffs at BusinessWeek
As mentioned here last week, BusinessWeek announced it was shuttering its Asian and European editions, and that likely meant layoffs. Well, some of the affected people have received their walking papers, according to Media...
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Cool economics reporting resource
Do you cover the local, regional or national economy for your media outlet but aren’t really sure about what you’re doing? If that’s the case, then I ran across this cool resource: The Center...
The best corrections of 2005
If we can’t make fun of ourselves, then who can we make fun of? It’s a saying that I’ve always believed in, and one of my biggest criticisms about the field of business journalism...
Still a classic, 16 years later
I was on the Power Reporting web site earlier today looking for something when I ran across Bill Dedmon‘s series in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1988 about how banks would not lend money in...
Writing the same story from different angles
One of the interesting discussions at the American Press Institute business editors’ seminar that I attended earlier this week was how the same story could be written in different ways but still have an...
Cleveland's unique Monday biz section
One of the business editors I visited with at the American Press Institute on Tuesday runs the biz section at the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. I was very impressed with the Monday business section, which is...
Covering Georgia-Pacific/Koch deal
My friend Adam Levy, who is the Atlanta bureau chief of Bloomberg News, is not prone to be giving out compliments to his competitors. So when he was on the UNC campus today to...
More business news blogs
Here are some more business news blogs that I have found while trolling the Internet: 1. Todd Bishop, who covers Microsoft for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has a blog about, you guessed it, Microsoft and...
National Press Foundation seminar in LA
The National Press Foundation is holding a business reporting seminar in Los Angeles on Nov. 21. The deadline to apply is Nov. 18. Admission is free, but you need to reserve a spot. Find...
Great online business journalism
Jeremy Caplan is a New York-based reporter for Time magazine. He has worked as Associate Editor at Time Magazine for Kids and at The Paris Review, Newsweek, and Yahoo! Internet Life reporting and writing...
