The Reynolds Center is abuzz. Tote bags must be stuffed with schedules and books. There are stick drives to load with presentations, and a Barlett & Steele Award video of this year’s winners is in the works. We are gearing up, as we do every year, for Reynolds Business Journalism Week. From Jan. 4-7, the [...]
Journalism industry news, unemployment benefits, and reporting on green issues were the most popular topics on BusinessJournalism.org in 2010. By Flickr user Aaron M Bogdanich Top links continue to be information about Reynolds Center training for business journalists, but we also received a lot of traffic from readers this year to stories. Our Free Training [...]
Not too many will shed a tear for the expiration of 2010, from those whose unemployment checks expired to groups who oppose the landmark health care and financial reforms to those who already are tired of shoveling snow. But the banking community in particular likely is happy to write “Finis” to one of its worst [...]
Jeff Tomich of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch traveled to Wyoming to see local companies’ coal operations. His story looks at the industry’s strategy for survival amidst environmental-law changes.
As part of a Bloomberg series looking at the rising price of gold, Gigi Stone focuses on the impact higher prices have had on jewelry demand and jewelry makers. The segment offers a global perspective, looking at cultural connections to gold that keep some customers shopping and decreased profits that push jewelry stores to other [...]
Retail elves may be hanging up their caps in the next few weeks (once the Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day merchandise is out on shelves, which was started as early as Dec. 24 by many chains!) but that doesn’t spell the end to biz stories about the temporary jobs market. Indeed, as readers gird [...]
Still looking for places to make end-of-year donations? Or perhaps a journalism project to either get behind or use as a model for your own beat? (Not that we’re endorsing.. just sharing info about a new investigative reporting site.) BetterBio is an investigative project founded by Khadijah Britton, a journalist, lawyer and public health masters [...]
Katherine Rosman of The Wall Street Journal produced an interesting “day in the life” of piece about a personal shopper at FAO Schwarz. The story offers vivid details inside the job of guiding big spenders in their search for holiday gifts. Rosman writes: “If the store’s staff is on the front line of customer service, [...]
Welcome to the new era. History will record that electric cars became viable again in 2011. In 1900, there were an equal number of gas, electric and steam cars on the road, and the auto industry could have gone down any of those paths. The invention of the self-starter by Charles Kettering for the 1912 [...]
