Journalists on every beat are looking back at the trends and stories that defined the past 12 months. I engage in my own annual retrospective on Regret the Error by offering the Year in Media Errors and Corrections and a round-up of incidents of journalistic plagiarism. Business journalism was represented in both. For example, this [...]
Laurie Segall of CNNMoney.com has a good piece looking at what’s happening in the latest wave of tech start-ups. She pulls in readers by starting at The Grey Dog’s Coffee, a New York restaurant popular among the tech crowd, noting, “the high ratio of techies to tables isn’t surprising.” She continues: “Within a few densely [...]
Strange as it may seem, many of the gifts on Santa’s sleigh, hidden under beds and yet-to-be-wrapped will be slapped on the slush pile before dawn has broken on Dec. 26. U.S. News & World Reports says $50 billion — with a B — worth of merchandise is returned to stores each holiday season. There’s [...]
Fernanda Santos of The New York Times says she was reading the Queens Economic Development Corp.’s biweekly newsletter and came across an item bearing the headline “Do you know where whoopee pies come from?” The piece was about a communal kitchen where commercial cooks could rent space.
Welcome to the final edition of Festive Friday, your BusinessJournalism.org guide to holiday financial coverage. With one week to go before Christmas, it’s time to round up your final pre-holiday story ideas and look beyond Christmas Day for financial stories you can start setting up now. First, a flurry of last-minute ideas: Merchants’ big push. [...]
Should journalists also be developers? It’s a healthy debate that’s been swirling in the minds of some of the industry’s brightest multimedia thinkers. When I was in j-school, a professor once told me that a good journalist should have an ocean of knowledge, but it only needed to be an inch or two deep. I think [...]
It’s not even winter yet but the jet stream has taken a steep plunge, freezing many upper regions of the country and sending cold temps to some areas that might otherwise still be enjoying shorts weather. Growers in Florida’s agriculture-dependent economy are on tenterhooks this week, fearing that a hard freeze could cause hundreds of [...]
Business reporter Carolyn Said of the San Francisco Chronicle needed a brite for the holiday season. The prevalence of lots and farms to purchase Christmas trees led to a story about tree sellers. The story ends with this quote from longtime seller Karen Fishback about how the recession has been good for business: “’In 42 [...]
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