At the end of last night’s Academy Awards show, the one memorable statement (well, two… Melissa Leo dropped the F-bomb) had to do with the financial crisis. Charles Ferguson, director of “Inside Job” which won for best documentary, began his acceptance speech saying that three years after the worst financial meltdown in our history, “not [...]
Bloomberg News’ San Francisco team is launching a new one-hour show. Called “Bloomberg West,” the show will focus on technology news with a Silicon Valley angle on business information. It will air weekdays at 3 p.m. Pacific time and then again at 8 p.m. It’ll will be available to 250 million people worldwide who have [...]
Ann Zimmerman of the Wall Street Journal first heard from her daughter about a person using fake service animal papers to travel with her dog. A year and a half later, she says she heard a similar story while at a wedding. “And then I just started doing research, talking to disability experts, the DOJ, [...]
The avalanche of employment data expected this week suggests that it might be a good idea to kick off the month with a jobs or hiring story. The week will be capped off with Friday’s early-morning release of the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s employment situation report (the source of the national unemployment rate.) Meanwhile, you [...]
Steve Everly, a business reporter for The Kansas City Star who has covered the energy beat for 15 years, was a fellow during our “Covering the Green Economy” seminar in June. One of the sessions he attended – a conversation with veteran reporter Russ Choma on diving into stimulus funds earmarked for renewable energy projects – [...]
Colin Tetreault holds a Master of Arts from Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability and is a sustainability consultant and expert to numerous organizations. Journalists are well aware of the ongoing debates surrounding health care reform. I want to step back from that discussion, provide more context to the greater issues, and share some story [...]
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RALEIGH, N.C. – Look for the next round of stories out of the financial crisis in the areas of municipal finance, pension funds and bank failures, a Wall Street Journal editor told a group of investigative reporters Thursday. Rick Brooks, deputy editor of Money & Investing for The Wall Street Journal, said municipal finance is [...]
Every few weeks we try to catch up by offering worthwhile story nuggets that just didn’t make the cut for their own blog posts. Here’s what I’ve been stockpiling lately for you – note that most are leads on how to translate national reports into local economic indicators: The GAO high-risk report (PDF). This annual [...]
