Several key health care reform provisions go into effect Thursday, putting the complex issue back in the news. STORY IDEAS, TIPS BusinessJournalism.org’ Melissa Preddy: Ideas, resources to cover how health-care as reform kicks in NEWS COVERAGE NPR: 7 ways Federal law changes health care CNN: New health care changes are only the beginning Bloomberg: Obama [...]
Occasionally pop culture hands even business writers a viable news peg and a way to make those sometimes eye-glazing topics a little more palatable. I remember enduring “Boiler Room” about 10 years ago in order to trot out a cautionary column about stock-pushing sales reps for readers of my personal finance column. More power to [...]
Ben Botkin of the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho, checked the dates on a local college’s bidding process and found some discrepancies. His story starts: “On June 15, College of Southern Idaho trustees approved a recommendation from the school’s administration to hire builder Starr Corp. and architect/engineer CTA to oversee design and construction of a [...]
We continue to hear a lot about people struggling to find good jobs. And then we get a message like the note from a former colleague today saying that Patch.com wants to hire 230 local editors by the end of the year: “If you know of anyone anywhere looking for a job, interested in community [...]
There’s Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day, Buttermilk Biscuit Day and School Nurse Day. So why not International Freelancers Day? That August holiday – which actually spans two days – will be celebrated Thursday, Sept. 24 and Friday, Sept. 25 with the first-of-its kind online conference featuring a variety of marketing, writing and branding experts. As a [...]
Freelance writer Emily Badger profiles U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) for Milwaukee Magazine using great anecdotes to show how he bucks the stereotypical politician traits to focus instead on customer service. Her lede anecdote is about his tradition of inviting any constituents visiting Washington to his office for a continental breakfast each Wednesday. She writes: [...]
The University of South Carolina announced that the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) has established the David J. Morrow Business Journalism Scholarship Fund at USC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Morrow, who died Feb. 1 of pancreatic cancer at age 49, graduated from the university in 1983. He was a SABEW [...]
Media consumption is going up: No surprise. That’s the conclusion of a widely quoted study earlier this month. Here’s a closer look at that Ipsos OTX study of 7,000 online consumers ages 13 to 74: People Spend More Than Half Their Day Consuming Media More than half the day? Yikes. That’s a significant increase, for [...]
Gold hit $1,000 an ounce to much fanfare just about a year ago – and it turns out that was just for openers. The glitzy metal has been striking records again this month as investors weary of the global economic malaise seek that most basic of financial havents. Gold closed at $1,280.80 an ounce after [...]
