If you’re passionate about business coverage and have a knack for narrative storytelling, this job at the Burlington Free Press might be the perfect fit. The paper is looking for a reporter to join its business team. They want a journalist who is comfortable with telling in-depth stories and reporting on topics outside the business [...]
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism invites AEJMC attendees to apply for an all-expenses-paid, four-day seminar on how to teach a college course in business journalism. The fourth annual Business Journalism Professors Seminar will be held Jan. 4-7, 2011, at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in [...]
This is an idea blog, and as you know, story ideas range from full-bodied and meaty to fleeting and fluffy. We try to serve up mostly meat, but some of the other fare is just too tasty to be ignored. So here’s a round-up of weighty and not-so-weighty summertime ideas, all worth a second look: [...]
David Streitfeld of The New York Times takes readers to Maywood, Calif., where the city fired all of its workers and rehired them as contractors to save money and deal with lawsuits against its police department. David writes: “At first, people in this poor, long-troubled and heavily Hispanic city southeast of Los Angeles braced for [...]
The Particulars Instructors: Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics for Moody’s Economy.com; Ezra Klein, Washington Post Wonkbook blogger; Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica computer-assisted reporting director; Matt Apuzzo, AP investigative reporter; and Russ Choma, reporter for Investigative Reporting Workshop Location: Mary Graydon Center, Butler Boardroom (Third Floor) American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20016 Hotels: Holiday [...]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the largest newspaper in the Lee Enterprises chain , is searching for an editor to lead its coverage of business and the economy. The ideal candidate is an innovator, collaborative leader and a person who understands the business community. Here are a few more details about the type of applicants the paper [...]
Events that sometimes seem far removed – in geography or in time – may have more of a local economic impact than you realize. So even if you’re nowhere near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, it may be worth checking around for area companies that have generated business from one facet or another of [...]
Freelancer Jan Greene won a second-place award from the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) for a story looking at options for small hospitals to survive. The article ran in Trustee magazine, a trade publication targeted at boards of directors for hospitals. The story relays how solutions such as partnerships and mergers worked for other [...]
When tackling a personal finance story, there’s a lot more to consider than being frugal or shopping smart. At least that’s the consensus of a panel of veteran personal finance reporters who talked with the Reynolds Center recently. The world of personal finance contains a wide spectrum of topics and is of interest to a [...]
