President Obama will deliver the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, and it’s a sure bet that economic issues – especially jobs creation – will be front and center in the chief executive’s speech. The broad policy speech comes right after the president’s directive earlier in the week [...]
Max Chafkin and the editorial staff of Inc. magazine spent a month telecommuting to give readers the pros and cons of working without an office. That piece is a finalist for an Eddie Award, presented by Folio: magazine to recognize editorial excellence in magazines and online. The winners will be announced tomorrow in New York.
We chatted with Brian Storm, president of MediaStorm, a multimedia-production studio based in New York City. Take a look at the chat below: Just hit Replay. Brian Storm‘s principal aim is to usher in the next generation of multimedia storytelling. MediaStorm is an award-winning multimedia production studio, where visual storytellers “create cinematic narratives that speak [...]
While doing some reporting on a timely news story this week, I shot a few quick video interviews. My plan was to cut them together, add a couple of credits and upload a video for our web producers before our peak traffic hit. Simple, right? Wrong. I made a rookie mistake — I didn’t have [...]
Quite a bit of news from corporate “C suites” this week brings up the topic of localizing the succession-planning story – which is a timely and unique way to line up some executive interviews in your region, and perhaps get a closer glimpse at area family-owned businesses or other companies that tend to get overlooked [...]
As we head into the spring selling season, we’ll chat with veteran real-estate reporter John Gittelsohn on March 16 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. EDT (10:30-11:30 a.m. PDT) about key housing trends to track locally. Gittelsohn, who covers real estate for Bloomberg News, will offer tips for reporting on home sales, prices, foreclosures, mortgages, new construction, fraud schemes [...]
With Groundhog Day looming, consumers, Realtors, home builders and others in your audience are starting to think about spring home selling season. It’s a good time for business reporters to plot out a few months’ worth of residential housing coverage, since this market and industry is so important to any local economy. And if you [...]
Brad Branan of The Sacramento Bee wanted to know what was holding up Sacramento County’s new computer system. “I had been frustrated trying to figure out why this project was continually funded despite cost overruns, and a weak argument for going with it in the first place,” he says. His reporting led to a story [...]
The Society of American Editors and Writers (SABEW) has given the reporting duo of Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele its 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award. The award, which has been given in most years since 1993, “singles out individuals who have made a significant impact on the field of business journalism and who have [...]
