We’ve posted two training videos that may be helpful if you’re investigating the stimulus or tracking mortgage lenders. They are graciously provided to us by Investigative Reporters and Editors from sessions at its Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR) Conference in Phoenix in March. In the video on the federal economic stimulus, reporters Tom Grabell of ProPublica.org and Ben Poston of [...]
The Wall Street Journal has named Deborah Needleman, founding editor of Condé Nast’s domino magazine, to a newly created role in which she will serve as editor in chief of WSJ., the Journal’s glossy lifestyle magazine, and editor of a new weekly Saturday lifestyle section in development for the Journal for the fall. Effective Sept. [...]
With little more than a month to go before Labor Day, back-to-school business topics are hot. For business writers, financial aid is a rich field to mine, from how-to personal finance articles (see FinAid.org for a wealth of resources) to scams. This Federal Trade Commission report released earlier this month says fraudulent “financial aid consulting services” [...]
Just like KISS (keep it simple, stupid), this reporting tip never gets old: Follow up. That doesn’t always mean an update. Following up can also mean checking up on new characters or following a component of a story, as the Los Angeles Times did in this story about salaries for city officials who earn two to three [...]
As the summer heats up in Arizona the debate over the controversial immigration bill, SB 1070, has kept pace. Federal district court judge Susan Bolton has until July 29 to make the decision on whether or not the bill is constitutional. If the bill holds up it will take affect at 12:01 a.m. on July [...]
The extreme heat rolled into New York City last week and with it came the reminder that the remaining weeks of my internship are running thin. Before the extreme heat made it almost impossible to lug my camera and tripod around the New York City subway system, I covered a story that got me thinking [...]
The free, weeklong “Understanding Financial Statements” online seminar originally was held July 19-23, 2010. It covers income statements, balance sheets, cash flows and writing about numbers. This Webinar was also held July 2011. As one past participant said, “This course really revolutionized my reporting. I felt much more confident writing my last earnings story.” YOUR [...]
How the government says Goldman Sachs defrauded investors USA Today proves that business videos are hard to do… to do well. This ambitious video combines graphics and animation to try to explain what happened with Goldman Sachs. Did they succeed? You be the judge. This really is a big project and no doubt took several [...]
Bloomberg News is searching for an Global Markets Editor to lead coverage on credit markets from Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America. The editor will be part of the Emerging Markets, Bonds, Stocks and Currencies team based in New York and will be responsible for “helping shepherd interviews with prominent money managers [...]
