“A review of published corrections for the past three months shows that few days passed without a numbers error. I regularly hear complaints that numbers in Post stories don’t add up.” Those are the words of Andrew Alexander, ombudsman for The Washington Post in Friday’s column, Post stories that just don’t add up. Alexander pointed [...]
Toluse Olorunnipa of The Miami Herald tells a compelling story about a woman whose story of possible eviction illustrates the fraud that led to so many foreclosures. He starts the story: “All she wanted was $50,000 from the equity in her house to help pay the bills while looking for a job in nursing. What [...]
Jobs and employment are ripe for another story this week, between the heating-up debate about extending unemployment benefits and a plethora of new data to be released starting Wednesday, capped off by the national unemployment figure on Friday. (Analysts don’t expect it to drop from the current 9.6 percent.) No matter what your beat, you [...]
THE PARTICULARS When: 1-5 p.m. Feb. 23 Where: Chancellor Room, Marriott City Center 500 Fayetteville Street Raleigh, N.C. 27601 Hosts: Investigative Reporters and Editors; N.C. Press Association. Instructors: Ronald Campbell, reporter for The Orange County Register; and Chris Roush, director of the Carolina Business News Initiative Workshop is the afternoon before IRE’s Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) [...]
Tami Luhby is a senior writer at CNNMoney.com, where she covers the economy. Before joining CNN Money, she covered personal finance for Newsday. Luhby graduated from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she now teaches. She is also a graduate of Columbia College and has worked at Crain’s New York Business and American Banker. Luhby [...]
More effects of health care reform are rolling into the marketplace – the latest in the form of new spending guidelines for health care insurers. As this Washington Post article: Health insurers face new federal rules on medical spending, explains, insurers starting next year must toe to new standards for the percentage of [...]
Automotive News won a Digital Azbee Award, recognizing business-to-business media, from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for a January video segment about Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally, called “Detroit’s Superstar CEO.” Leslie J. Allen, my dear friend and former Inky colleague, produced and wrote the segment, which she calls “a real stroke [...]
The free workshop, “Investigating the Business of College Athletics,” was originally held March 10 in Indianapolis, Ind. Hosted by Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI), the multi-session training offers tips on how to dig into the finances of your local colleges’ athletic programs. YOUR INSTRUCTORS Steve Berkowitz, projects editor for sports at USAToday, and Jodi Upton, [...]
The free workshop, “Investigative Business Journalism on a Beat,” was originally held May 7 in Portland, Ore. Hosted by University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, the multi-session training offers tips on refining and pitching an idea, developing and interviewing sources, plumbing public documents, and organizing and presenting the story effectively in multimedia. YOUR [...]
