The BVI Beacon, a weekly newspaper in the British Virgin Islands, is looking for a business editor. The business editor is expected to lead investigative work in addition to daily stories. Banking experience might be a plus, because coverage will include the territory’s offshore financial services sector and new regional commercial court. More details at [...]
Mary Ellen Podmolik of the Chicago Tribune keeps readers in the loop about the huge hole on the city’s North Lake Shore Drive. By checking in regularly with those involved in the stalled development, she was able to break a story about upcoming talks that might get the 2,000-foot tower off the drawing board and into [...]
Car companies release November sales figures this afternoon, always a headline driver and sometimes a market mover. Though I suspect expectations are low for a month sandwiched in between summer incentive programs and the annual December clearance push. Still, if your region’s economy has ties to the industry you’ll need to report on 2009’s penultimate [...]
The San Diego Business Journal is looking for a graphic designer for the weekly business publication. In the paper’s JournalismJobs.com listing, editors asked for someone who is happy working in both Mac and PC cultures. The ad does not specify how much work this designer will do online. But preference will be given to designers [...]
Kristen Wyatt of The Associated Press writes about the Salvation Army’s foray into technology to raise money. In 30 cities, the bell ringers also accept debit and credit cards. She writes: “The growth of so-called ‘plastic kettles’ comes as fewer shoppers carry cash.” Today’s Tip: Even with “feel-good” stories, don’t forget to cover all of [...]
Walt Bogdanich discusses “A Toxic Pipeline,” a series he wrote with Jake Hooker for The New York Times. Their work received the first-place Barlett & Steele Award in 2007. The stories documented China’s role in supplying a counterfeit drug ingredient that killed at least 100 people in Panama and is suspected of killing thousands of [...]
Former broker Carol Legg came to the Cronkite School last year for a master’s degree that reflects her passion for both journalism and business. Following her first year in the program, she landed an internship at CNBC, the cable network specializing in financial news and information. “Business is the most important story out there, which [...]
During a time of financial crisis, the need for business reporters who can explain what’s happening is more important than ever. That fact hit home for Bill Hennigan when he began considering a specialty within the field of journalism. He discussed career opportunities in business journalism with Andrew Leckey, Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism, [...]
CBS’s 60 Minutes did a segment looking at the costs associated with dying in hospitals, saying 20 to 30 percent of expenditures have no impact. The story focuses on an analysis of Medicare records for patients in the last two years of their lives by the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy. One finding: “[Dr. Ira Byock] [...]
