Perfect Market, Inc., an Idealab marketing company for publishers, has launched its Vault Index, which ranks the 10 most valuable topics for news publishers. And by valuable they mean ad revenue per page. The results of the survey of summer 2010 news may be good news for serious journalists, especially business journalists. While coverage of [...]
If you’ve been scanning any journalism job listings lately, you’ve likely noticed a preference for multimedia knowledge. Photo, video and interactive skills are becoming a requirement as staffs shrink and newsrooms turn their attentions toward the web. If you’ve been dragging your feet, I asked two former print business reporters who made the leap into [...]
Ludwig Siegele, technology correspondent for the Economist magazine, won the 2010 Olin Corporate Strategy Prize from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis for an article about Cisco’s reinvention. He writes in the story: “In other words, the plumber is branching out. As well as making these unexpected forays away from selling [...]
We’ve talked here about using Slideshare.net as a tipsheet. Slideshare is a site where people who give presentations share their PowerPoints. It’s a place you can find a lot of good teaching tools. Lately, I’ve been keeping an eye on the Business/Law section of Scribd. Scribd calls itself the world’s largest social reading and publishing [...]
Ah, earnings season. CFOs reach for their lucky pen, belt, shoes or other good luck charm. Investor relations teams prepare to highlight the good and mitigate the bad. And if you listen closely, you can hear conference call lines being initiated all over the country. Reporting on corporate earnings leaves a journalist open to committing [...]
It’s no secret that tracking blogs is a great way to stay on top of news and mine for new story ideas, but choosing what to read can be daunting. I spoke with journalists around the country to get suggestions for some of the best blogs (other than the one you’re reading, of course) for [...]
The lack of financial reports from private companies didn’t keep James Drew, Steve McGonigle and Ryan McNeill at the Dallas Morning News from connecting the dots about a Texas fund that provides money to promising high-tech startups. Their story says: “Behind the scenes, some of the governor’s biggest political supporters have been making investments of [...]
The Street has an opening for a reporter to cover financial services. In their JournalismJobs.com posting for the job, The Street editors said the reporter will be part of a team covering Wall Street and the banking industry, with an emphasis on source-driven articles, breaking news and company analysis. Ideally, The Street would like the [...]
As journalists focus on developing online products, providing a high-quality user experience and producing it quickly are top priorities. Often, news organizations are relying on reporters and bloggers to provide multimedia as they cover stories. The good news is that developers have created plenty of free tools to help you meet these demands quickly and [...]
