This tutorial from Chris Roush is a crash course in financial markets. Roush, the director of the Carolina Business News Initiative and an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will teach you: How to cover stocks and what to look for as news. The importance of bond coverage to business [...]
SEC filings provide endless story ideas and hidden details about specific companies. In this tutorial, Chris Roush, the director of the Carolina Business News Initiative and an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gets you familiar with how to navigate the filings. You’ll also learn: How the Securities and Exchange [...]
Step right up! If you’re stuck for a fresh and quirky small business angle, spin the sweepstakes and contest wheel for a fun consumer biz feature or how-to advice package aimed at entrepreneurs. From radio stations to bakeries to hardware stores, small operators know that contests and promotions are one way to drive local traffic, [...]
Rosland Gammon is a former business journalist turned college instructor. Her newsroom experience includes reporting for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and reporting and editing at Bloomberg News. Gammon currently teaches communications at Alverno College in Milwaukee. She writes daily for BusinessJournalism.org specializing on best practices from business journalists around the United States. I recently asked her [...]
Veteran financial writer Melissa Preddy served as a business writer, editor and columnist for The Detroit News from 1995 to 2008, is a Michigan-based freelance journalist. She writes daily for BusinessJournalism.org and specializes in helping reporters come up with good, unique stories ideas. I recently asked her to elaborate on how she finds good story [...]
With Thanksgiving approaching, business journalists are finding ways to cover the economics of the turkey festivities. The Phoenix Business Journal published a story Tuesday about the predicted cost of Thanksgiving dinner for Arizona families, reporting the price of dinner this year is down almost 25 percent from last year, according to the Arizona Farm Bureau. [...]
A recent Bloomberg news commentary by Celestine Bohlen pointed out some of the skewed facts when media pundits say the U.S. is headed for “Euro-style” socialism. Bohlen wrote that few Europeans consider themselves doomed by their comprehensive health-care plans. Many European countries don’t have government-operated health care, which is the standard definition of socialized medicine. Bohlen [...]
Mortgage delinquencies. Foreclosure rates. Housing starts. Home sales. Price trends. With so many factors to analyze and keep up with in the housing market, business journalists have found today’s news cycle has again put the issue in the foreground with a new report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. Washington Post’s Renae Merle reports on the [...]
The official holiday shopping season is just a few weeks away and business journalists are not waiting to report on spending. The New York Times is getting a jump start on reporting on retail trends with an article today on the many sectors noting a boost after many large chains reported a third quarter boost. [...]
