New York City is looking for a journalist for a job that might just be a good fit for a business journalist. The job is in the NYC Department of Small Business The salary for this press secretary position is $60,000 to $80,000 per year. In the City’s JournalismJobs.com job listing, managers said they are [...]
Microsoft wants to hire someone to write about Windows products. The job pays $75,000 to $100,000 and is based in Redmond, Washington. “We’re looking for a writer who is eager to build customer loyalty for the Windows family,” their ad said. Applicants should have a degree in Journalism, Communications, or English combined with established experience [...]
Fourteen bucks an hour, fresh air and lots of friendly chit-chat – what more does a job-seeker want? Well, perhaps the lot of census takers and other temp hires associated with the decennial count won’t be quite so idyllic – but for hundreds of thousands of workers this spring, it’ll be better than no job [...]
Tom Van Riper Forget the tourism bucks. Forbes found another business angle for the winter Olympics: training costs for families. Consulting the sports associations for each sport and the United States Olympic Committee, sports business writer Tom Van Riper came up with a figure on the training costs – by sport – for Olympians in the making. Before [...]
Missouri Lawyers Media has an immediate opening for an experienced reporter to cover the business of law statewide for Missouri Lawyers Weekly and its dailies in St. Louis and Kansas City. The successful candidate will be part of a team of 15 reporters and editors in one of the few thriving niches in journalism today. [...]
Spring break season at colleges and universities revs up in about a week, and it’s a great excuse to explore how college students are faring as we creep out of recession. This handy site, SpringBreakDude.com lists spring-break schedules for dozens of alma maters and indicates that – counting only the colleges listed – in the [...]
Mark Maremont and Leslie Scism of the Wall Street Journal had a terrific story this week with this lede: ”Terminal Illness? $2,000 in CASH, Immediately Available.” That pitch comes from an ad in the Rhode Island Catholic, the official newspaper of the local diocese. Behind the ad was “a plan hatched by a prominent Rhode Island estate-planning [...]
President Obama announced the creation of Deficit Reduction Commission Thursday, a controversial move that had the media expressing their skeptical opinions in articles and broadcasts nationwide. As business journalists have seen in the last year, the economy affects everyone. But it is still the responsibility of the reporter to keep neutral ground on the stories they’re covering – [...]
As many news organizations continue to struggle, non-profit news services will increasingly be attempting to fill the information gap, says Matt James, senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation. James visited the Cronkite School Tuesday to speak to faculty and students about the foundation’s new non-profit Kaiser Health News (KHN) and the increasing role [...]
