No wonder the casual reader is confused about “systemically important financial institutions.” Is being one a good thing or a bad thing?
We can’t answer the question, but we can do a better job of demystifying the matter. Let’s start by ditching the “too big to fail” tag.
When it comes to creating infographics, annotating the data can give you the most bang for your buck, says Catherine Mulbrandon, creator of VisualizingEconomics.com, a website that transforms economic data into infographics. She recently won a grant from the McCormick Foundation to grow her site.
Yikes. It’s not even the Fourth of July yet and there’s barely been time for books and backpacks to gather any dust – yet what should our wondering eyes behold but … back-to-school promotions! Yes, indeed. If you cover retail business, consumer spending, technology or other beats that can possibly relate to furnishing dorm rooms [...]
A Twitter exchange between two online friends this morning reminded me of an important tool for business journalists. The Wall Street Journal publishes its notes about style so we all can share. Style & Substance: A Wall Street Journal Bulletin is a regular blog about the newspaper’s use of language. Style & Substance is easy [...]
As the only business and technology reporter at WBUR-FM, NPR’s station in Boston, Curt Nickisch casts his net wide, covering stories from green energy to personal finance and entrepreneurship. Despite his chemistry degree, Curt Nickisch veered into the field of journalism and has found himself a home in public radio. Even without the benefit of visuals [...]
Joe Cogliano of the Dayton Business Journal heard rumors that local companies were starting to hire and saw some job announcements in the midst of all the unemployment news. He decided to pull all the “Help Wanted” pieces together for a Jobs Report, which recently won a Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists award.
A few weeks ago, I found the bio of a Tier One auto supplier CEO on LinkedIn and used the background information there to beef up a Google search; much to my glee, the augmented search led me right to a phone number, and the CEO himself answered the call. I think he was almost [...]
The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and The New York Times took home multiple awards among the 13 categories in the 2011 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism announced June 28 in New York City.
Manufacturing is the end result of many other decisions, from the first sketch of a new product to the initial marketing study by those tasked with selling it. Then come hours of engineering, and finally, the development of the factory processes required to make the concept a reality.
The blessing for anyone who understands manufacturing is that the basic way that things are made has not changed since the beginning of the industrial age.
