Jim Motavalli, longtime auto reporter for news organizations including the New York Times “Wheels” blog and NPR’s “Car Talk”, spoke about how the greening of the auto industry is in a new period of innovation. For years, Motavalli said, automakers have tried to introduce electric vehicles (EVs), but today’s models are coming out in greater numbers [...]
Russ Choma kicked off the morning at the Green Economy Conference. Choma is currently working for the Investigative Reporting Workshop, a site affiliated with American University in Washington D.C. Since joining the Investigative Reporting Workshop he has focused mainly on renewable energy funds tied to the stimulus package. His largest piece “Blown Away” received national [...]
From CNBC stock-picker to a man with a definite point-of-view. There is not one, but two headlines in the New York Times today about former CNBC stock-picker, Dylan Ratigan, and how he has transformed into an opinion host on MSNBC. Today, Ratigan begins “Fix-It Week,” proposing solutions to problems like the federal budget deficit and [...]
Opportunity appears to be growing in business journalism with the number of open positions increasing early this summer, according to a number of sources in the industry. The Associated Press alone has posted eight business journalism jobs in June, including reporter positions for autos, money & markets, real estate, energy, retail, financial markets and banking [...]
In this Tom Lynn photo from jsonline.com with Dan Egan’s honored series, “Great Lakes, Great Peril,” a ship travels through the St. Lawrence Seaway in 2005. Dan Egan of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was a special merit recipient for the Grantham Prize, which honors reporting on the environment. Judges recognized Egan for beat coverage of the [...]
The Associated Press has posted its eighth business journalism job this month. It is looking for “an experienced and aggressive financial markets reporter to join a team that produces daily markets stories,” according to a posting on PoynterCareers. Other business jobs that have been posted include reporters for banking, real estate, retail, energy, autos, the graphics-driven Money & Markets [...]
There will be high-fives in showrooms nationwide now that auto dealers have managed to get themselves exempted from tighter scrutiny under federal financial reform, which cleared another legislative hurdle early Friday morning. The Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 was finalized by House and Senate negotiators, who had been reconciling two earlier versions of [...]
With more money targeted for green jobs and an increase in the market for environmentally friendly products, the economy is greatly affected by the movement to “go green.” The auto industry is no exception as big names like General Motors and Ford search for cutting-edge solutions to make their products more sustainable and attractive to [...]
You know how it is – those ephemeral story ideas flit through your brain like early summer fireflies, aglow one minute and gone the next. I like to pin them down every couple of weeks in what the Reynolds Center staff and I call “potpourri.” It’s a smorgasbord of story ideas that are timely, easily [...]
