Business journalists in the United States have a median salary of between $65,000 and $70,ooo, according to an informal survey in July and August by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). That compares to a median salary of just over $60,000 in a survey of 473 randomly selected business journalists conducted by [...]
Farewell to the $40 cup of coffee. That’s how personal finance pundits are framing the new credit-card rules that take effect Aug. 22 as part of the continuing roll-out of reform mandated by the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009. This third stage of the roll-out includes a $25 limit on late [...]
Tim Logan, who covers economic development for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, said rumors were flying about a pending federal indictment against local real estate developer John Steffen, so the press release announcing it wasn’t a big surprise. However, a closer look at the filing did provide something he wasn’t expecting. His story says the city [...]
Bloomberg plans to hire more than 100 journalists and analysts in Washington for a new product called Bloomberg Government (BGOV) that “will intensely cover the business implications of government actions — namely legislation, regulation and government spending,” a Bloomberg spokeswoman said. “We are looking for journalists interested in pioneering a different form of journalism – [...]
We at the Reynolds Center get queries from journalists seeking help with business stories, and we try to offer ideas and sources. We got one yesterday from a journalist in Wisconsin, who wrote: “Folks starting up businesses say it’s impossible to get a commercial construction loan from any bank in the State of Wisconsin right [...]
Advertising Age has an interesting piece today on how Bloomberg, which has spent a lot of time, effort and attention on BusinessWeek magazine, is turning back to Bloomberg magazine. Bloomberg Hunts New Advertisers for Its Other Magazine Bloomberg bought BusinessWeek last fall and redesigned it in the spring. It is now looking for ways to [...]
In what may be every media entrepreneur’s dream, just 11 months after launch, an aggregator of Minnesota news has attracted $1 million from The Dolan Co., which owns weekly business newspapers nationwide, and a Minneapolis public relations firm, Padilla Speer Beardsley. The site is BringMeTheNews.com, which Rick Kupchella founded in September 2009. He is a [...]
From controversial mosques to Ramadan – the annual month of fasting which began Aug. 10 – followers of Islam have been making headlines these days. Not many of the issues fall under the purview of financial and econ writers, but for writers in markets with a significant Muslim population, there are some interesting possibilities for [...]
Readers of the Dallas Morning News forward copies of apologies they’ve received from Southwest Airlines to aviation reporter Terry Maxon, who files them in his “mental ticker file.” He took those nuggets this week to write a story about what some airline employees are doing to make customers happier. He writes: “Their job: to [...]
