Spinning business stories from hurricane coverage
Even if your readers aren’t in the path of Hurricane Earl, the fallout from a Labor Day weekend disruption will ripple nationwide. Melissa Preddy offers tips for localizing the story.
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0SABEW opens bidding for its online auction
Career tips, Community
Bidding begins today for The Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ online auction.
Items include a week at a lake cottage in Maine, an autographed football from Hall-of-Famer Troy Aikman, lunches with famed business journalists, tickets to a National Hockey League game in New York, and tickets to Major League baseball games in New York and [...] -
$600,000 news anchor, $350,000 weathercaster not the norm for local broadcast journalists
Basics, Career tips
Somewhere out there in a local TV station, there’s a $600,000 news anchor and a $350,000 weathercaster, but that’s certainly not the norm in the recently released RTNDA/Hofstra University Annual Survey of local broadcast-news salaries.
The median (half make more, half make less) for TV news anchors is $59,000 and for weathercasters is $50,000, and there [...] -
D.C.-area newsletter seeks banking reporter
Basics, Investing | Banking, Job listings, Jobs
Lisa Getter, co-publisher of Bank Safety & Soundness Advisor, is looking for a banking reporter who understands the following terms: CAMELS ratings, Call Reports and consent orders.
The newsletter, based in Gaithersburg, Md., is directed at bank executives, she says, and its mission is “helping financial institutions thrive in the shifting regulatory environment,” according to its website. [...] -
IRE offers database of SBA disaster loans
Basics, IRE, Investigation, Latest, Real estate | Econ development, Small | Private | Non-profit, Story ideas
Investigative Reporters and Editors is offering a database of disaster loans made by the Small Business Administration from fiscal 1980 to 2009. Journalists can use this database of 1,088,565 records to find where SBA disaster loans went in their market or determine who is not paying back SBA disaster loans, according to IRE Training Director [...]
