When the Weather Channel’s home page banner says “Colossal winter storm takes aim: Coverage from Denver to NYC,” you know you’ve got a talker. The winter storms expected nearly nationwide over the next couple of days (I’m looking down the barrel of 14 inches of snow, here in Detroit, for example) are leading newscasts and [...]
Mark Mueller of the Star-Ledger in New Jersey tracked statistics about fatalities in the railroad industry and produced a story with an attention-grabbing lede.
We’ll chat live from 1:30 to 12:30 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 with Marcia Parker, West Coast editorial director for Patch.com, the hyperlocal-news venture in which AOL has invested tens of millions of dollars.
California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, has launched the California Watch Media Network and announced its first members, which include some of the state’s largest and most reputable news organizations. Joining the network are the San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, San Diego Union Tribune, Orange County Register, Bakersfield Californian, and the [...]
The escalating strife in Egypt – with developments changing at a near-hourly pace – has rippled beyond the social, political and military spheres to business and finance realms. From global stock-market selldowns to travel warnings for U.S. citizens, the effects of the ongoing protests and unrest in the North African country are spreading to every [...]
With major stock indices again tapping at some big round numbers – Dow 12,000 and S&P 1,300 are within striking distance today – it’s a good opportunity to take a look at some local angles to national stock markets stories. While analysts and pundits tend to pooh-pooh the round numbers as irrelevant – and I [...]
Andrew Zajac of the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau noticed a Florida pharmacy had received about $150 million in whistle-blower awards from the U.S. Justice Department in less than a month. He had spoken with someone from the company 10 years ago about an unrelated whistle-blower suit and knew how small the company was.
If you haven’t checked up on the local motor-vehicle sales scene recently, a few developments on the new and used car fronts can help you craft a timely update. Sales of cars, trucks and fleet vehicles likely are among the biggest-ticket consumer and small-business transactions in your market, and with a bit of an uptick [...]
Luke O’Brien, contributor at Fortune magazine, was doing a Google search when he came across a story in the Nigerian press about a criminal mastermind who is wanted for stealing money from home-equity lines of credit. Then he saw an episode of “America’s Most Wanted” focusing on the same guy, a Nigerian native living in America. He started checking U.S. court cases, which led to his story about “one of the world’s most successful cyberscammers, a criminal genius who used his talents to filet a poorly regulated banking and credit system.”
