The Particulars Instructors: John A. Byrne, chairman and CEO of C-Change Media Inc.; Dave Cohn, founder of Spot.Us; and Robin J. Phillips, managing editor of BusinessJournalism.org Location: MarketWatch 201 California St., 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 When: 1-5 p.m. on Sept. 1 Registration is now closed. Hotels: Hilton San Francisco Financial District Hotel des [...]
The winner of the $75,000 Grantham Prize for reporting on the environment is Alanna Mitchell for her book, “Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis.” “The book, published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada and by The University of Chicago Press in the U.S., is a stirring account of the threats facing the ocean,” according [...]
The U.S. Senate last week failed to pass another extension to supplemental, federally funded unemployment benefits, as this CNN Money article summarizes. With the federal extension passed late last year, some former workers could get up to 99 weeks of jobless pay, but barring any further bailout – which Congress seems reluctant to do as [...]
GQ’s BP story, “Boom,” was a hot topic among tweeters and bloggers this past week. For good reason: Writer Sean Flynn created a narrative that leads up to the Gulf explosion based on actual people involved. He retells their stories through survivors, MySpace pages and recovery records. He intertwines the story with a widow’s mission to pursue [...]
Health-care reform was the No. 1 story in the mainstream media from June 2009 to March 2010, when Congress passed legislation. So, how well did the press cover health-care reform? The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism examined more than 5,500 stories on health care during that period, trying to find out. At least in [...]
This is a somewhat odd combinaton: Atlanta Business Chronicle is looking for an outstanding reporter to cover banking and finance and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. In the JournalismJobs.com listing for the job, editors pointed out that “Atlanta has been the epicenter of the banking crisis nationally, with a record number of bank failures. The airport [...]
Chris Welles, an award-winning business journalist who also served as a role model and teacher of business journalists, passed away Saturday at the age of 72 after an extended illness. Welles for a number of years ran what is now the Knight-Bagehot fellowship program at Columbia University, which trains mid-career business journalists. His own business [...]
Overshadowed by the BP spill, the market downturn and other big biz news, financial reform regulation continues to creep along in Congress. As lawmakers try to reconcile differences between the House and Senate bills, they’ll meet this week to discuss a number of issues with direct impact on your audience, including predatory lending, debit-card fees [...]
P.J. Huffstutter P.J. Huffstutter of the Los Angeles Times profiles Scott Salyer, the head of SK Foods who is accused of selling substandard tomato products at inflated prices. But unlike a typical bio piece, she tells his story as part of a family rooted in legal battles. She writes: “For three generations, the Salyers fought [...]
