Like every reporter, I tend to squirrel away little idea nuggets that may not merit a full-length blog post but are worthy seeds of story ideas. Here’s a few that seem ripe for harvest: Tainted celery: In a year already blighted by fatal food recalls, celery is the latest apparent culprit; as this Associated Press story [...]
The slug on one of today’s Associated Press stories is “Foreclosure Mess,” which is an apt and pithy description of the documentation and paperwork foul-up that is making a dire residential real estate market even worse for buyers, sellers, investors, creditors and virtually anyone else with a stake in the housing situation. Figuring out [...]
In this Chicago Tribune photo, Dr. Merle Diamond (right) was one of the Illinois doctors getting the most money from drug companies, receiving $148,300 this year and last, mostly from speaking on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline. “To me, it’s always been about helping physicians understand the treatments that are available for migraine,” she tells the Trib. [...]
The following MarketWatch commentary by Andrew Leckey was translated into Chinese in The Asian Wall Street Journal and Oriental Outlook magazine, the national news magazine of China. Speaking Chinese without an American accent Commentary: To know China, see the world through its eyes By Andrew Leckey Will the heavy national debt load of the U.S. [...]
As readers check out stories about French workers’ retirement protests, they may be pondering their own golden years. And it’s a likely peg for a localized retirement story, from myriad personal finance angles or through taking a look at programs and benefits offered by employers in your area, and how they may be shifting with [...]
Double-check the math in SEC documents. Photo by Flickr.com user alancleaver_2000. As Todd Wallack of The Boston Globe worked to compile a list of the area’s highest paid chief executives, he started noticing some errors. Since he’d used a tool called 10K Wizard (now Morningstar Document Research) and gathered some data from Capital IQ, he thought maybe he’d [...]
Elizabeth Shell, producer and reporter for PBS’s Making Sense with Paul Solman, creates a fictitious couple, Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed, to help the audience grasp what the latest mortgage loan issue – robo-signing. She writes: “What does this mean for our jobless and health problem-ridden couple? They don’t know who owns their mortgage, which means [...]
The buzz in some historically immune-to-crime neighborhoods near me has been a rash of residential break-ins and other property crimes that have frightened homeowners ordering up security systems, purchasing special locks and taking other preventative measures. It got me to wondering how the personal and residential security industry is faring these days. A number of [...]
The Portland Business Journal, part of the American City Business Journals network, is looking for an experience business editor to be its managing editor. In its JournalismJobs.com listing for the job, Rob Smith editor of the Portland Business Journal said he is looking for someone “who gets energized by working in a team environment that [...]
