The Particulars Time: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 31 Location: The Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News 1st-floor conference room 400 N. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19130 Click here to download the Parking Map (PDF). Instructors: Steve Doig, Knight Chair in Journalism at Arizona State University, Paul Overberg, database editor for USA Today and John Duchneskie, graphics editor at [...]
The Particulars Time: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. April 7 Location: Southern Methodist University James M. Collins Executive Education Center, Classroom 120 3150 Binkley Ave Dallas, Texas 75205 Access campus map here. (Collins Center is No. 49.) Instructors: Steve Doig, Knight Chair in Journalism at Arizona State University, and Paul Overberg, database editor for USA Today Hotel: [...]
One of the biggest trends in social media right now is the growth of location-based platforms. For the past year, journalists across the country have been trying to figure out how to harness these services both for reporting and to serve users content. We’ve had some mixed successes so far, but a basic blueprint for using [...]
Twitter and Facebook postings alerted Ronnie Crocker, who covers beer for the Houston Chronicle, that some new craft breweries were about to join the scene. He checked the data on Texas breweries and took a look at how it stacked up against growth among mass-produced brands. Crocker writes: “The growth spurt is likely to continue. [...]
Google provides some great free tools for business reporting that can help you keep track of what’s happening on your beat, research companies faster and mine search data for news.
Students participating in the university-based newsroom incubator called News21 broke news and got some national attention recently with a series of transportation safety stories that looked at problems caused by delays in implementing National Transportation Safety Board recommendations. News21 is a national initiative led by 12 of America’s leading research universities. The transportation safety project [...]
Looking for great websites for data-driven business stories? Jaimi Dowdell, training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), offered up a bounty of sites for business journalists to find local business stories at a Reynolds Center workshop in Atlanta on Oct. 11. “Any time a private business interacts with the government, those are the places [...]
Freelance investigative reporter Murray Waas won the Barlett & Steele Gold award for investigative business reporting last week for a Reuters piece looking at how insurers routinely cut patients diagnosed with certain conditions. (PDF) Waas writes: “The women paid their premiums on time. Before they fell ill, neither had any problems with their insurance. Initially, [...]
If hunting season isn’t under way in your neck of the woods, it probably will be soon. In fact, if you include fishing, chances are some critter or another is being stalked on any given day. Here’s a good example from the Flagstaff Business News of an economic-impact story. From a financial-news standpoint, gear sales [...]
