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Reporting on CEOs health issues
The Toronto Star examines the very sensitive topic of reporting on CEOs health.
Archive for January, 2009
FT names Zorthian president of the Americas
The Financial Times has named Greg Zorthian as its president of the Americas, according to reports from The Washington Post. Zorthian, who in the past has held executive posts at Forbes, Time Inc. and Magellan Media Consulting Partners, will add those duties to his responsibilities as global circulation director, a post he assumed in July [...]
Strange mail sent to WSJ
A suspicious white powder was mailed to The Wall Street Journal’s New York headquarters yesterday and it prompted a partial evacuation, according to reports from the paper.The story says that police determined the powder, “wasn’t hazardous and was probably flour or a food-based substance.”The FBI plans to continue examining the mailing. They suspect they could [...]
A new kind of “newspaper”
The New York Times reports a Chicago based start-up, The Printed Blog, will publish a weekly paper that consists entirely of blog posts. The “Internet-era penny-saver” will be available in major cities and, most importantly, it will be free.
Mastering story forms
Successful business writers will employ over a period of years about a dozen tried-and-true story forms. Among them are the trend story, the narrative, and the essay. It takes even the brightest journalists a few years to master these approaches and maybe a bit longer to know just when to use them. Here reporters from [...]
P-I workers face possible layoffs
The Associated Press reports that employees at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer have been notified that all jobs will be eliminated if no one purchases the paper. Earlier this month, the paper’s owner, Hearst Corp. said it would stop printing the paper if a buyer wasn’t found within 60 daysForm the story: The P-I reported on its [...]
More cuts for LA Times?
LA Observed reports that staffers at The Los Angeles Times could face another round of layoffs, as the Tribune Co. looks for more ways to cut costs by the middle of March.The report says there is still no solid information yet on if there will definitely be cuts or the number of staffers that could [...]
Newsday editors are back
The New York Times reports that the top editors at Newsday reported for work yesterday after a several day dispute.The staff “did not know whether they had been ousted by the paper’s new owner, Cablevision Systems, in a dispute over news coverage.”From the story: Newsroom employees said tension between the editors and Cablevision boiled over [...]
Inside a dental scam
Roberta Baskin of WJLA-TV and her team exposed a chain of dental clinics that put small children under unnecessary and painful treatments in a scheme to profit from Medicaid. For their investigative series, “Drilling for Dollars: Children’s Dentistry Investigation,” the team recently won a 2009 duPont-Columbia Award.From Columbia’s announcement: “In this exemplary investigative series, Baskin [...]
