Craig Pittman from the St. Petersburg Times came back for the final presentation during lunch. Pittman is the author of two books, Paving Paradise and Manatee Insanity. Both books originated from a story that he was working on, making him an ideal person to help teach how to turn story ideas in to a book! [...]
Angel Gonzalez, Houston bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires, is a longtime energy reporter who has covered the oil industry for years. He has made two trips to the Gulf Coast since the explosion of a BP deepwater drill in April 2010. He has seen the crisis unfold from economic and environmental standpoints and talked to [...]
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers has named Chris Roush, Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Scholar in Business Journalism at the University of North Carolina, as its first research director. “His first project in the volunteer position will be an examination of salaries of business journalists,” according to SABEW.org. Roush is a past [...]
This session was taught by Shaun McKinnon of the Arizona Republic and Craig Pittman of the St. Petersburg Times, two award-winning reporters. The very first issue addressed, was the fact that water has a much greater economic impact than many people realized. What made this most interesting was to see two entirely different climates (wetlands [...]
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers announced it has received a $15,000 grant from The Commonwealth Fund to provide training on-site and online on the new health-care reform law. “It is the third such grant Commonwealth has awarded to SABEW, which has conducted seven workshops on the business of health care with Commonwealth [...]
Major League Baseball, peanuts, beer and – a job application? Yep, if you happen to be in St. Louis today. The Cardinals and Busch Stadium are hosting a career fair at the baseball field, where $20 gets you a ticket to the game and admission to the jobs expo, where a dozen or so prospective [...]
The Los Angeles Times goes into a distant subdivision in Southern California to show how the housing boom’s bust dashed hopes for many and offered an opportunity for others. Thomas Curwen, a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing in 2008, gets down to street level to gauge the impact of the real estate crash. He wrote: “Foreclosures started [...]
CNBC, The New York Times and Vanity Fair each took two Gerald Loeb Awards, the highest awards in business journalism, announced June 29 in New York City. In addition, Walt Bogdanich, assistant investigative editor of The New York Times, won a Lifetime Achievement Award in the annual competition administered by the UCLA Anderson School of [...]
Jeff Goodell, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, contributer to the New York Times Magazine, and author, has covered the coal and energy industries for nearly a decade. Goodell talked to journalists about the challenges and importance of telling the energy stories, in addition to his book, “Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith,” [...]
