Quarterly corporate financial reports are trickling out this week and the floodgates really open next week with bellwethers like Apple, Caterpillar and Amazon.com reporting on their most recent fiscal performance. Reports from high profile companies tend to move markets. But companies on your turf needn’t be household names to provide helpful insight into your regional [...]
With revenue down at most media outlets, yet another newspaper company announced plans Wednesday to introduce a paid content model. According to a Bloomberg article released Wednesday, New York Times online users will be allowed free access to a set number of articles per month, and charged a fee to read more. This so-called “metered [...]
Tracey Read of The News-Herald in Willoughby, Ohio, saw a story in The Wall Street Journal about last year’s 32 percent increase in personal bankruptcies and decided to localize it. She tells the story of an area resident who sought bankruptcy protection. Through the tale of Melissa Ritts, readers can see that bankruptcy isn’t a magic pill. As Ritts [...]
When the newspaper career ladder Aaron Kremer had been climbing teetered, he launched his own business news site, RichmondBizSense.com, to compete head to head with the paper’s business section in Richmond, Va. His site, which started publishing Jan. 1, 2008, combines the daily business reporting of a local newspaper with the analysis and commentary of [...]
GenomeWeb News is looking for an experienced journalist to edit a new online newsletter covering PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) and other nucleic acid amplification technologies. In their JournalismJobs.com listing, the editors said they are looking for: “A motivated reporter who can uncover scoops and build an audience for this new publication, which is focused on [...]
Two presenters from the Reynolds Center will present ‘Finding Fresh Angles on the Economy in Your Own Backyard’ at the New England Newspaper & Press Association (PDF) on Feb. 5. Ron Nixon, projects reporter for the New York Times, will show journalists how to follow the money coming out of Washington, where he is based.Nixon [...]
Newsroom denizens aren’t supposed to worry about ad revenue, but it’s been difficult over the past decade not to notice how small and thin our publications have become. And it’s not for lack of news. Advertising has been a casualty of the recession, leading not just to lean newspapers but to bare billboards, skimpy shoppers [...]
Michael Arndt and Susan Berfield of Bloomberg BusinessWeek successfully take readers inside the proposed Kraft-Cadbury deal through the persona of Kraft Foods CEO Irene Rosenfeld. Michael, a senior editor, says they produced the story in about a week, even though Rosenfeld and others didn’t comment. Today’s Tip: Talk to everybody, Michael says. They called all of [...]
Leslie Wayne, an award-winning business reporter at The New York Times, is the first Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professor in Business Journalism at Arizona State University. She will teach graduate and undergraduate courses during the spring semester in the business journalism specialization at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The position is [...]
