Patrick Barth juxtaposed South Africa’s wealthy and poor for a New York Times video looking behind the World Cup games. In the 4-minute-10-second video, he shows his sources in their everyday lives to illustrate the economic differences. One rides in a minivan taxi to work as a cleaner; the other is a businessman who drives [...]
Susanne Rust and her colleagues exposed the presence of chemicals, including bisphenol A, in a wide range of everyday household products for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the series “Chemical Fallout.” It was a piece of journalism that stunned consumers, prompted regulatory change and earned the team a slew of honors. The series garnered a [...]
With more than a week left before the long Independence Day weekend, you still have plenty of time to seek out business and financial angles to the Fourth of July holiday. Recreation, tourism and entertainment sectors abound with possibilities. This year, it’ll be interesting to see the effect of a Sunday Fourth of July. When [...]
Photo by Flickr.com user ztephen Steve Miller and Lynn Walsh of TexasWatchdog.org perused Houston Independent School District procurement cards last year for a story about employees with bankruptcy records getting the cards, Lynn says in a blog. As they searched the data, they became interested in how the cards were used for travel. “We noticed [...]
The New York Times is looking for an experienced show producer/video journalist to join its video department in New York, according to a job posting on Poynter.org. It states: “The candidate will be responsible for producing regular business programming, including daily news and interview segments — in close collaboration with the Times business desk. The [...]
The Particulars Instructor: Brian Snyder, TV-production specialist, Cronkite School of Journalism Location: CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Room 436 219 W. 40th St. New York, NY 10018 Map and Directions When: 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. This free workshop is part of SABEW’s fall conference. However, you don’t have to attend the conference to participate [...]
Not a good week for PR in the upper echelons. First BP’s Tony Hayward jets away from the sullied Gulf Coast to attend a posh yacht race in the relatively pristine waters off the English coast. In a move so far up on the irony meter that it sounds like a headline from The Onion, [...]
Ohio’s eight largest newspapers started a partnership in 2008 to share content and work together on projects. The second project from that teamwork came out this week: a look at double-dipping school superintendents who retire briefly to trigger their state pension payments and then return to work. Patrick O’Donnell, who wrote the story for The [...]
Almost two-thirds of business journalists report that the amount of business coverage at their organization has stayed the same or increased in the past five years, according to a new survey commissioned by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. | Business Journalists Study 2010 (PDF) The Business Journalists Study 2010 is a [...]
