What is it about coffee? The bitter liquid brew of the mountain bean – reportedly discovered by an Ethiopian goat herder – seems to stirs up more drama, emotion and passion than all the crude oil, Type O blood and holy water on the planet. And with more industry gyrations brewing – like the Starbucks [...]
Kat Aaron, project editor at the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, sat in Detroit courtrooms for a few days to see how many defendants were representing themselves and found that many couldn’t afford attorneys. While accurate data about the number of people with lawyers weren’t available, she did find a decreasing pool of funding to help people in similar situations.
Social Q&A platform Quora is one of the hottest stories in tech and social media from the past six months. The site’s base is expanding at such an astonishing clip that the big news now is how the site can accommodate its own booming popularity. As with a lot of new media, no one has [...]
The Internal Revenue Service began accepting e-filed returns earlier this week; a bit later than usual and none too soon for millions of filers who look forward to plump refunds this time of year. (Those who owe tend to file later in the season, sensibly enough, so early tax-time stories tend to focus more on [...]
The National Press Foundation is holding a Why Journalism Matters contest using the Twitter hashtag #JournalismMatters. The winner … not sure if that is the person who writes the best reason journalism matters or a Twitter that is selected randomly … will receive a 16 GB WiFi iPad. The National Press Foundation wants to know [...]
American Business Media (ABM) has named the editorial staff of Health Data Management as finalists in two categories of the 57th Annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards Competition. The winners will be announced at the Neal Awards Luncheon on March 10 at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. The full finalists list: [...]
For more than 16 years, I wrote a weekly column on taxes for The Wall Street Journal. It was my favorite assignment in more than 40 years at the paper. Initially, I was terrified. As Winston Churchill once said about Russia, taxes struck me as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Most [...]
Consumer Price Index data just out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows core inflation up 0.2 percentage points in January compared to December; a low number but continuing a trend that TV market pundits dubbed “the end of the deflation scare.” “The index for food at home posted its largest increase in over two [...]
By Randall Smith During my summer camp years of long ago, I remember a chant that always went up in the mess hall. “The worst is yet to come. The worst is yet to come. The worst is yet to come.” In those days, the focus was on the next course of food. In reality, [...]
