Categories: OLD Media Moves

Richmond paper to hold roundtable on covering business

The Richmond Times-Dispatch will hold a roundtable discussion Wednesday with its readers to discuss how it covers business news.

A short item in the paper stated, “Readers are invited to make comments and ask questions of a panel of Times-Dispatch reporters and editors who are responsible for our coverage of business — from small entrepreneurs to our eight Fortune 500 companies to consumer and real estate trends.

“Times-Dispatch Vice President and Executive Editor Glenn Proctor will moderate the program.

“‘Business viability and economic understanding are essential to the growth and sustainability of any region,’ Proctor said. ‘Which means business coverage is very important to us. We remain committed to doing an even better job in bringing business news to our readers and online viewers.'”

Read more here. I ran a roundtable a couple of years ago on The (Raleigh) News & Observer’s coverage of the drug industry where 15 people from various positions in the business came and spoke. I think both sides got something out of the discussion.

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.