Graduates (including spring 2011 graduates) of Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism are eligible for the newly created Kearny Alliance China Fellowship in Global Business Journalism at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The two-year program, which is designed in part to strengthen US-China relations, allows the fellow to earn an MA in International Business [...]
If your plan is to kick off the new year with new skills, check out the Reynolds Center’s full lineup of free training for spring and summer 2011. “We looked at what business journalists have told us in surveys they wanted in developing the center’s online and regional workshops,” said Executive Director Linda Austin in announcing [...]
‘Tis the season. For the next three months or so, income-tax filing will be top of mind for much of our audience, providing you with plenty of fodder for financial stories. It’s a personal finance issue, but if you’re on the careers, workplace, consumer, banking, technology and other beats, you can find timely and interesting [...]
If you’ve got a tough business concept to explain, check out Graham Bowley’s New York Times article about quantitative easing for some pointers. Quantitative easing is the large-scale purchase of debt by a central bank, such as the U.S. Federal Reserve, to stimulate the economy. “The effect is the same as printing money in vast [...]
Many of the biggest business stories of 2010—from unemployment and foreclosures to health care and financial reform—are poised to carry over into the New Year. And perennial favorites the deficit and the Census undoubtedly will break news throughout 2011. But there’s also an argument to be made for greater exploration of some undercovered business topics [...]
John Corrigan is the Business Editor of the Los Angeles Times, leading an ambitious staff of about 40 reporters and editors with correspondents in New York, Washington DC, Beijing and the Silicon Valley. As Business Editor, Corrigan oversaw the newspaper’s investigative coverage of Toyota’s sudden acceleration crisis, which earned it a Loeb Award for beat [...]
As part of a look at the Recession’s impact on retirement, James Pilcher of the Cincinnati Enquirer wanted to know how area 401k plans had fared. He’d learned about a site called FreeERISA.com that provides free employee benefits data. The data comes from form 5500, which the U.S. Department of Labor requires employee benefit plans [...]
Whether it’s two banquet rooms at the Holiday Inn out by the freeway or a million-square-foot convention center, your region’s conference and meeting space is a chunk of the local economy that deserves a look as we kick off 2011. You get a double bang for your buck by making an effort to be aware [...]
Testy copy editor newest blogger for BusinessJournalism.org Phillip Blanchard, longtime copy editor on the Washington Post Financial desk and founder of an online forum called Testy Copy Editors, will be writing every other week for BusinessJournalism.org. Check out our collection of Phillip Blanchard: Testy Business Copy Editor posts. His great tips are timeless.
