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Archive for May, 2009
100 most creative people in business
Fast Company released its collection of 100 Most Creative People in Business Monday. The profile pages have: A paragraph about the person’s life and work Links to their Web sites Stories about them from Google News Excerpts from their Wikipedia pages, blogs, or other online accounts like Linkedin and Twitter Videos of the individuals and [...]
The power of details
Powerful personalities dominate our business culture and their stories make for compelling reading. Here are three examples from the Voice of San Diego, The Denver Post and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The common thread in all three: an emphasis on details, details, details. The fall of Denny Hecker Dee DePass of the Minneapolis Star Tribune [...]
SmartMoney editor leads writing course
SmartMoney senior editor, Beverly Goodman will teach an online course on Mediabistro.com next month to help journalists hone their business writing skills.The four week financial writing course, being held June 2- June 30, will offer an interactive experience for writers to achieve timely and original business angles in these challenging economic times.Find complete course details [...]
WSJ chimes in on press coverage
NPR talks with economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, David Wessel, to chat about the highly-criticized role of media coverage during the financial meltdown on Tuesday’s Talk of the Nation newscast.Listen to the conversation here.
Dow Jones trims benefits
Though The Wall Street Journal‘s circulation and site usage has increased, its parent company News Corp. is cutting back benefits in the face of economic woes.Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton announced the cuts in a memo Tuesday. The cuts will freeze the Money Purchase Plan and reduce health care subsidies for the retired.Hinton said [...]
Nieman Foundation selects biz journalists
Business journalists are among the 24 journalists selected for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism’s 72nd class of fellows.Announced Tuesday, the class of 2010 includes Wired magazine contributing editor, Jeff Howe who will examine crowdsourcing and its use in the development of sustainable journalism models.Other fellows focusing on business issues will research topics like the economic [...]
Wall Street Journal prints in India
The Dow Jones & Co. announced Tuesday it will print The Wall Street Journal Asia in India. The move is part of the company’s expansion into India and China. It will be printed in New Delhi and Mumbai and delivered the same day to subscribers in major Indian cities.See the story here.
The business treatment
By Jeff Bailey My favorite government reporter in Chicago is a model for how business reporters could add value to the coverage of the public sector. Ben Joravsky, who works for the Chicago Reader, has carved out fabulous beat writing about Mayor Richard Daley’s use of tax-increment-financing districts to gain control of vast sums of [...]
