The free Webinar, “15 Red Flags When Editing Business Stories,” was originally held March 29, 2011. At the bottom of this page, you’ll find self-guided training links. This session aims to bring business copy into your comfort zone — or at least closer to it — by exposing the biggest pitfalls editors and reporters face [...]
Gorkana, a site that links journalists and PR people through it’s daily email news alerts and other media services, has added Twitter to how you can follow or reach them. I know, I know. Joining Twitter doesn’t sound like a newsworthy event any more, but being able to follow Gorkana on social media is worth [...]
Bloomberg’s Justin Blum and Alison Fitzgerald write that federal prosecutors are considering manslaughter charges against BP managers for decisions they made before the Gulf of Mexico oil-well explosion last year.
Today’s First Tip: “When an idea or notion doesn’t pan out, don’t forget about it,” Alison says.
The Abercrombie & Fitch push-up pre-tween bikini flap over the past week did more than highlight the issue of sexy attire for little girls – it reminded a lot of grown-ups that bathing-suit season is fast approaching. With two months to go between now and the unofficial launch of summer on Memorial Day weekend (and [...]
A new website, The FOIA Project, is dedicated to improve the process of asking for information from government sources. The FOIA project is being developed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) with support from Syracuse University and a grant from the CS Fund/Warsh-Mott Legacy. The site’s explainer says: “The ultimate goal of these FOIA [...]
New York Magazine contributor Mark Levine won an award from the Association of Health Care Journalists for his piece examining the financial crisis facing the New York City hospital system. Mark describes St. Vincent’s Hospital as “the Lehman Brothers of the local hospital industry: an institution whose dramatic disappearance, once unthinkable, raises dire questions about the viability of the entire system.”
Rare earth. It’s the kind of phrase you hear once and suddenly notice it popping up all over the place. But what’s it all about, and is there a business story in it for you? It’s about a certain set of minerals that are difficult to harvest but needed in a wide variety of industries [...]
I saw a website headline Monday offering “10 ham recipes you haven’t tried” and laughed at the ironic timing. With hog futures recently hitting the highest point since 1986, according to Bloomberg News, and retail pork prices hoofing it higher, it’s unlikely that consumers will be casting about for solutions to an excess-ham problem any [...]
Darren Barbee of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram used internal SEC emails, a transcript of a Senate banking committee hearing, confidential documents, inspector general reports, and interviews with numerous current and former SEC staff members to write a Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) award-winning piece showing how cases involving scams were often dismissed
