Colin Tetreault is a consultant to companies looking to make their businesses more sustainable and environmentally responsible. He writes occasional blogs for BusinessJournalism.org. Earth Day. What started as the brainchild of a Wisconsin Senator, has grown and evolved into an international movement dedicated to the advancement and protection the world we call home. Before we [...]
I was lucky enough to attend an excellent video class last week from my friend, Ihosvani “Geo” Rodriguez. Geo was a print reporter who made a leap to multimedia reporter a couple of years ago, so he has a great grasp on how to transition. If you’re new to video, there are a few basic [...]
Kenny Malone and Doug Hanks found a way to take us back in time: They created an Economic Time Machine for The Miami Herald. The ETM, as they call it, is an Excel-based database that compares current economic data to past levels put them into perspective. (They’ve heard all the “Back to the Future” jokes already.) Matching about 8,000 bits of economic data to pre-recession levels allowed them to put the state of the current South Florida economy as being about the same as in April 2002.
With the purported “wedding of the century” on tap in London next week and a dating service controversy underway here in the United States, there’s no shortage of news pegs for business-of-romance features. As you may have heard, the online dating service Match.com has recently agreed to screen members against the national sex offender registry [...]
The free Webinar, “Covering the Green Economy — Follow the Green Money,” was held April 19, 2011. This Webinar is part of a “Covering the Green Economy” training series that began June 2010.
In 2006, Los Angeles Times reporters Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino were Pulitzer finalists in investigative reporting for exposing the role of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and other American museums in the black market for looted antiquities.
Corporate earnings season is in full swing and it’s sort of overshadowed another kind of earnings information that likely will be of far greater interest to readers: Government data on personal income and wages. In addition to recent reports, a huge release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis is due out Thursday (April 21) [...]
I know people sometimes look down their nose at PowerPoint presentations. Yes, they can be deadly. But I’ve got in the habit of checking out presentations featured on Slideshare, a site where people can store and share presentations of all types. Hayley V. Fuller, a Slideshare user from Kingston, Ontario, Canada, posted this slideshow about [...]
I’ve featured many of the Pulitzer-winning, business-related stories in this blog during the past year. The one I hadn’t read — detailing what happened to a fishing boat that sank off Cape May by Amy Ellis Nutt at The Star-Ledger in Newark — kept me on the edge of my seat with its details, fast pace and storytelling techniques, such as foreshadowing. It won the 2011 Pulitzer for feature writing.
