Categories: OLD Media Moves

How a biz journal will cover nonprofit news

Lloyd Whittington, the managing editor of the Triad Business Journal, writes about how the paper will cover nonprofit news now that Todd Cohen has decided to stop writing a regular column.

Whittington writes, “This is certainly not the end of nonprofit coverage for TBJ, but it is a natural time to revisit how we cover the sector. Todd’s column has evolved, and in recent years featured highlights and briefs, ranging from new initiatives and fundraising campaigns to accolades and leadership changes. Uniquely equipped with the background, contacts and context, Todd made that look easy.

“Without Todd, we must now focus on the most significant nonprofit news. Rather than an amalgam of briefs, we will focus on news that is timely, significant and has a direct impact on business. Those are the areas that our readers demonstrate on a daily basis matter most to them.

“We will, of course, continue our exclusive lists of the region’s 25 largest nonprofits and 25 largest foundations. We will continue to consider photos from events for our Triad Scene section. As for leadership news, nonprofits can submit those to our People on the Move section.”

Read more here. A subscription is required. Cohen is also ending his regular column in the Triangle Business Journal.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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