The tragic earthquake in Chile may be a hemisphere away, but the economic ripples still could reach your backyard. With casualty reports still coming in and a recovery effort under way, the less urgent ramifications of the temblor won’t be assessed for a while. But business journalists may want to delve around for local [...]
The Associated Press announced Friday that it plans to create a strategic business unit to seek and develop new business opportunities for its multimedia news and that of its members and other news providers. Called AP Gateway, the unit will facilitate development of fresh news consumer experiences for the Web as well as mobile phones, [...]
McClatchy-Tribune Business News is looking for an assistant news editor to work on a new digital news project. The job is based in Washington, D.C. The salary is $45,000-$50,000. In the McClatchy JournalismJobs.com job listing, McClatchy said it is “developing an exciting new product offering rules-based classification of news content, and we are looking for [...]
From Washington orchids to Nebraska corn to Massachusetts cranberries, agricultural products are big business in just about every region we cover. Some crops, of course, are grown year-round, but as major spring planting season looms, it’s a good time to pluck some business features from your local soil. Agriculture makes up roughly 16 percent of [...]
LISTEN: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] NPR’s “Morning Edition” correspondent Howard Berkes provides a closer look at corporate sponsorships at the Olympic games. He notes that the competition venues don’t carry the usual corporate names, but companies have built a strong presence outside the venues. For example, Procter & Gamble has a four-story [...]
A new survey of editors of business-to-business publications finds that four out of five report that they had a day or less of corporate-sponsored digital training in 2009. The survey of 273 B2B editors by the American Society of Business Publication Editors and the Medill School at Northwestern University was conducted in November. It also found that 38 percent [...]
Time is running out to apply for the two scholarships that the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is offering to attend the conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in Phoenix March 19-21. The deadline to apply is March 1, and applicants will be notified by March 3 as to [...]
As a master of the art of networking, former newsroom recruiter Joe Grimm shared his secrets on how to connect with the sources who will improve your coverage, as well as those who can help you take the next step up professionally. In his 18 years as the recruiter for the Detroit Free Press, Grimm [...]
Elizabeth Holmes of The Wall Street Journal chose expansion news as the focus of her TJX Cos. earnings story: “Consumers may still be keeping a tight grip on their cash, but that’s prompting discount retailer TJX Cos. to pull out its wallet. A major beneficiary of the bargain hunting forced by the deep recession, TJX [...]
