In simple language, AP business writers Anne D’Innocenzio and Rachel Beck track the toll that competition has begun to take on retail’s longtime king, Wal-Mart. They found data in 10Ks and reports from research firms. They also headed to the stores for shoppers’ perspectives.
Now that Borders Group Inc. officially has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization, you might want to address the bookselling scene in your market ASAP. Here’s the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based retailer’s official statement on its website, stressing business as usual, and here’s the Borders’ investor relations page with quick links to recent SEC filings and financial [...]
Around 1 p.m. EST on Sunday afternoon, some 30,000 horsepower will rumble to life at the starting line of the Daytona International Speedway, and the 43 racers in the Daytona 500 will kick off the 2011 NASCAR season. And you don’t have to be in Florida to feel the economic ripple effect of those 200 [...]
Maximillian Potter, executive editor of 5280 magazine in Denver, was named a finalist this week in the National City and Regional Magazine Association’s awards competition for a profile of local lawyer Willie Shepherd.
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will award two $1,000 fellowships to attend the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in Dallas April 7-9. The competition is open to full-time journalists who want to attend the center’s free training before and during the conference, as well [...]
President Obama anted up with his 2012 budget proposal Monday, the opening hand in a poker game with Congress that hopefully will result in a viable fiscal plan come October 1. Clearly, any budget which aims to save the nation $1.1 trillion over 10 years is going to create economic losers as well as winners. [...]
New Yorker writer Atul Gawande, a doctor himself, chronicles efforts in several places to lower health-care costs. In Camden, N.J., he writes about “a strange new approach to health care: to look for the most expensive patients in the system and then direct resources and brainpower toward helping them.”
It’s been a busy few days for those of us older than 22 at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School. We’ve been giving a lot of history lessons in the past 72 hours. You see, there’s a lot of teenagers around here who have no idea what this “AOL” company is, nor how it had enough [...]
These three sessions deal with a social media basic introduction, tips for journalists to use social media as a research tool, and strategies for cutting the clutter of social media.
