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 for Economic and Policy Research sends out a weekly newsletter via e-mail called Economics Reporting Review. In it, Dean Baker of […]
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 is that we often take ourselves way too seriously. We are not perfect, and sometimes our mistakes can be embarrassing. And […]
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 this supposed city Too Busy to Hate to consumers who lived in predominantly minority neighborhoods. The series was called the Color […]
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 angle that was of interest to readers. The discussion leader was John Edwards III, no relation to the vice presidential candidate […]
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 entirely written in alternative story formats from typical inverted pyramind stories that we read every day. For example, there is a […]
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 interview internship candidates, I was surprised to hear him laud the coverage of the Georgia-Pacific/Koch deal by the Atlanta Constitution. Adam […]
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 more Microsoft. It can be read here. 2. The Christian Science Monitor has a blog on science and technology. Not everything […]
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 out more details here. The speakers include: Understanding Economic Indicators – Gary Zimmerman, Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Understanding […]
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 about technology, the arts, food, education and other subjects. On Jeremy’s Web site, he has a list of the best of […]
Newsweek's Jane Bryant Quinn
I moved one office over today from Allan Sloan’s and talked to Jane Bryant Quinn, arguably the most visible and most important personal finance journalist in the field today. Like most women who wanted to be journalists in the 1960s, she struggled to overcome gender discrimination in the newsroom. Like Sylvia Porter before her, she […]
