The free Webinar, “Beyond Google – Mining the Web for Company Intelligence,” was held May 17-18, 2011. At the bottom of this page, you’ll find links to complete the self-guided training.
In two hours, learn the tools and techniques that competitive intelligence experts use every day — and that you can use to keep tabs on the companies on your beat.
Yikes. Leading economic indicators slump, factory production sags, home sales disappoint and Sears chalks up a $170 million first-quarter loss. What a way to end the week. How about some good news for a change? The industry market research firm IBISWorld has just released a new report on the “Top 10 Fastest Growing Industries,” based [...]
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas released a free e-book that details the inner world of journalists covering the drug trade in Latin America and the Caribbean. Based on conversations among journalists from several different countries during the 8th Austin Forum on Journalism in the Americas, the book examines the dangers and issues [...]
Feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the digital data coming at you from email, voicemail, social media, RSS feeds, Web surfing and more?
Our instinct as business journalists is to gather more and more information and to reach out further and further in our reporting. But we don’t often have the opportunity to stop to think about how we organize all the information we gather or how best to capitalize on the digital tools at our fingertips.
In response, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is sponsoring a free workshop called, Digital Efficiency for Business Journalists — 36 Tips to Tame Info Overload, on Oct. 13 in New York.
We traveled to the International School of Business in Beijing early this morning and met with the students majoring in mass media. Over the last year, Professor Andrew Leckey has been meeting and talking with students and the dean of the school in hopes of setting up an international exchange program for international business journalism. [...]
The vast expanse of Tiananmen Square inspires equally in depth and complex feelings. The protests of 1989 have ripped a hole in the fabric of the Chinese isolationist culture and suppression through which the entire world can see. On our first day in China, we experienced how sensitive the government is about Tiananmen Square. While [...]
With shares of the newly public LinkedIn expected to start trading today, the business world will be buzzing about the social media site’s massive $4 billion IPO. We don’t all have a social networking site headquartered in our backyard, but still, the stock debut offers a couple of ways for financial writers to ride the [...]
Kristina Cooke, Pedro da Costa and Emily Flitter of Thomson Reuters won a Deadline Club Award, honoring New York area journalism, for their look at the competitive edge some investors get from consultants with close ties to the Federal Reserve. They focus the story on former Fed governor Larry Meyer, who now runs a consulting firm, and his detailed report to clients after a recent Fed meeting.
The issues surrounding China’s economic growth — inflation, population, urbanization, media censorship — are the main topic of conversation as we converse with people living and working in the country. In a series of lectures, Phil Smith of Thomson Reuters‘ North Asia bureau and Andrew Broome from The Wall Street Journal Asia Edition shed additional [...]
