Archive for November, 2010

IRE offers database of workplace injuries, fatalities and OSHA inspections, penalties since 1972

Investigative Reporter and Editors is offering a database of workplace injuries and fatalities, plus inspections and penalties by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The more than 3.8 million records span from 1972 through Sept 2010. “OSHA classifies businesses by their location, name and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), making it possible to analyze inspections/accidents [...]

Journalists and corrections: Getting over the sense of shame

David Cohn, aka @DigiDave on Twitter, a Reynolds Journalism and founder of Spot.Us, interviewed online journalism entrepreneurs and others at ONA 2010. He just posted Interviews from #ONA10 with Smart People. I’ll let you watch most of them yourselves, but I want to share this one with BusinessJournalism.org blogger Craig Silverman. Silverman writes Regret the [...]

Aspiring business journalists: Get the basics down pat

By Salvador Rodriguez Reuters’ West Coast bureau chief told students should invest in their business education because it can lead to a great career filled with exciting challenges and other journalistic opportunities. Mary Milliken, 47, a bureau chief for Reuters for the last four years, spoke to two business journalism classes at the Cronkite School [...]

Reuters’ bureau chief sees direct link between wires, multi-media

Mary Milliken is West Coast bureau chief for Reuters News, responsible for multimedia news coverage from Alaska, down to California and over to Texas. The 45-member news team specializes in coverage of technology, energy, clean-tech and alternative energy, California finances and politics, immigration, entertainment, retail and leisure sectors. Prior to her current post in Los [...]

Reuters shifts housing story from problems to possible solutions

Matthew Goldstein of Reuters set out to move the mortgage debate beyond anecdotes about problems in the industry to potential solutions to fix the U.S. housing market. He writes: “Reuters found that after talking to nearly two-dozen housing experts, mortgage traders, lawyers, securities experts and others, there is broad agreement about what a solution to [...]

As holiday spending gears up, people on unemployment face big cut

It’s ironic: Even as the conspicuous consumption season revs up to a screaming pitch over the next few weeks, in the same period millions of Americans are at risk of losing the ability to buy so much as a gum ball. To extend or not extend unemployment benefits past Nov. 30 – that [...]

Add diversity to your holiday reporting story ideas

As we’ve been offering every Friday, here’s a fresh cornucopia of kernels aimed at keeping your seasonal coverage interesting and original. Christmas mania tends to get top billing this time of year, but in the 43 days between now and then, there are some festivals and holy days of other faiths. Add some diversity to [...]

CQ Roll Call seeks an economics editor, database editor

CQ Roll Call has several listings on its jobs page that would be of interest to business journalists and Web and database journalists, including an Economics Editor and a CQ MoneyLine Database Editor. ECONOMICS EDITOR: An experienced news editor to manage coverage of a broad range of economic and fiscal policy issues for CQ’s print [...]