Prior to joining FBN, Rothman served as a dayside anchor at Bloomberg Television covering markets, corporate earnings, and the global economic recession. While there, Rothman interviewed major financial newsmakers including: BlackRock Vice Chairman Bob Doll; Rochdale Securities analyst Dick Bove; billionaire investor Wilbur Ross and former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Christina Romer. [...]
I focused yesterday on using Census data to find stories about trends, such as msnbc.com’s piece on how more people now live near American nuclear plants than 10 years ago. Today, I’m focusing on the interactive graphic that shows the plants’ locations, chances of earthquake damage and nearby populations. Creating this graphic was truly a [...]
Several stories that won Pulitzer Prizes today had business themes, and during the past year, BusinessJournalism.org blogger Rosland Gammon talked to some of their authors, seeking tips to share with you, as she does most weekdays, from the creators of stellar business journalism.
Did you miss it? Here’s a transcript of our LIVE chat with Diana Henriques which she put on her website. Or check out the Replay below. Diana Henriques has worked at The New York Times for more than two decades. In her tenure as a financial investigative reporter, she led the paper’s coverage of the [...]
Is the dismal jobs market, combined with rising inflation, leading to more thefts from businesses?
This eye-catching New York Times article on April 15, “In Florida, truckloads of tomatoes are stolen,” offers a behind-the-scenes look at a $300,000 produce heist apparently prompted by the high price of tomatoes.
msnbc.com has given an international story national legs and tackled Census data in one great package showing how more people now live near American nuclear plants than 10 years ago.
Earth Day 2011 is a week from today, and it’s not just for environmental writers any more. Increasingly, corporate marketing, PR, charitable and image-building events are built around the annual commemoration, now in its fifth decade. In conjunctions with alternative fuel searches, the growing green-collar jobs sector, quests for energy savings and other issues, businesses [...]
Three-time Pulitzer winner Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times and John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will tell how they won a Barlett & Steele Award for Investigative Business Journalism at the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Conference in Orlando. Named for the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team of Don Barlett and Jim [...]
Two recent graduates of Columbia University’s Master’s in Business Journalism program have launched Public Business, a nonprofit journalism foundation that will offer fellowships for business reporting in the public interest. They are Maha Rafi Atal, who will serve as executive director in New York, and Damian Kahya, its president and a freelancer based in London. [...]
