What’s former BusinessWeek editor John Byrne up to? Developing C-Change Media According to WebNewser, Byrne spoke at a panel in San Francisco Tuesday night where he described C-Change as a “HuffPo for business.” More details, including why Byrne thinks C-Change stands a chance: Ex-BizWeek.com EIC Byrne Gives Sneak Preview of Upcoming C-Change Venture WebNewser quoted [...]
The Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada-Reno has posted the job of Professor/Chair in Business Journalism. The position had been held by David J. Morrow, a prominent financial journalist and a former editor in chief of TheStreet.com, who died on Feb. 1 in Spartanburg, S.C. He was 49. The UN-Reno job is [...]
Lobbying is an honorable profession, but journalists have to be mindful that corporate lobbyists are representing the interests of their clients, former New York Times reporter Leslie Wayne said Monday. “It’s just that they are engaged in a system where the money is tilted so far on their side that lobbyists for smaller groups or [...]
Or is that the business of gossip? The Wall Street Journal’s new New York section will have a column on “parties, nightlife, high society and events,” according to reports from The New York Observer. The Observer reports: “The Journal has hired Marshall Heyman, a freelancer from Los Angeles who worked at W magazine, to shepherd [...]
Financial news reports said Tuesday that Nissan’s electric car, the Leaf, will come at a price tag of about $25,000. Nissan announced the $32,780 price Tuesday, and with a $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles, U.S. headlines soared over its reasonable price. According to CNNmoney, it will be a cheaper option to the Chevrolet [...]
TV station WTHR in Indianapolis received a certificate of recognition from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) for a segment on the more than $1 million annually that Indiana state agencies spend on promotional items.For instance, the segment reports that the Department of Transportation bought 1,500 potato-chip-bag clips to promote a traffic Web site, and the State Police purchased [...]
Now that health care reform has passed and been signed into law, reforming the nation’s banking and financial system is back in the crosshairs. President Obama this week sent a letter to the G-20 nations promising an increased focus on financial stability. And earlier this month, a Pew survey found that a majority of Americans [...]
The annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists in Chicago April 22-25 offers several panels of interest to journalists covering the business of health care. Health Journalism 2010 includes a special track on assessing health-care reform, with sessions on: Does comparative effectiveness research work? What’s the outlook for the nation’s hospitals? Is there [...]
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on March 25 that it would hire 50 professionals, mostly journalists, to staff seven centers for local coverage. Here’s how to apply for those jobs: Check the Web site of the lead station in each of the regions where the centers will be based. A spokeswoman for the corporation said [...]
