Business journalism benefits from a wide array of sources. Sometimes, objective analysts are difficult to find – you can start to feel like a pinball bouncing between parties with vested interests, like PR staff, financial analyst and industry trade groups. That’s especially true in tough economic times, when spokespersons are wary of sowing the slightest [...]
Sean Sposito balances car dealers’ expected sales with other sources in this article for The Boston Globe. While he cites a pending sales tax increase and the roll out of the government’s incentive program as evidence that consumers will buy, he notes that limited qualifications and the recession may squash those forecasts. Today’s Tip: Unlike [...]
The Houston Chronicle is on the hunt for a reporter to cover the oil & gas industry on the energy beat.The position will be responsible for covering breaking news, trends, and producing enterprise pieces.If interested send resume, cover letter and clips to Laura Goldberg at laura.goldberg@chron.com.View the job posting here.
The News Tribune, a daily newspaper in Tacoma, Wash., is on the search for a business reporter to cover the economy, consumer issues and small businesses.The position will require producing content for a blog, online news updates and daily print stories. A focus on enterprise and accountability reporting on the south Puget Sound economy is [...]
We’re about halfway through the dog days of 2009 – theoretically the sultriest, laziest days of the year. If you’ve hit summer melancholy in your writing, challenge yourself with something like this: Can I get a puppy or a kitten into a business centerpiece display next week? The $45 billion-a-year business of pets has boundless [...]
Steve Proffitt, a reporter at KAWC in Yuma, Ariz., offers listeners squealing wheels, analogies and irony in his segment about GM’s new testing site in Arizona. He turns a business piece into an entertaining segment that still offers all the details that the audience wants: 100 jobs, free land, etc. Today’s Tip: Ditch the shirt [...]
By Bernie Kohn Securities analysts have long been part of the business journalist’s matrix. At their best, analysts are accessible, strategically insightful, expert number crunchers and secure in speaking their minds. At their worst, they know only what management tells them or color the truth to protect their firms or relationships with the companies they [...]
Now’s about the time for those midsummer doldrums when we all dream of jetting off to an exotic locale…or even someplace just moderately exciting. Businesses writers without cash for a trip can do the next best thing – catch up with the airline business. Even if you don’t have a major carrier headquartered inside your [...]
This ABC News segment explores whether consecutive stock market rallies indicate an economic recovery. The reporter uses footage from Capitol Hill as well as corporate earnings stories and economists to answer the question. Today’s Tip: Think of daily news stories as possible pieces to a larger puzzle. Stop to think about a broader impact and [...]
