John Christie, founder and publisher of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, has helped fill public policy story gaps uncovered by mainstream media. A recent series in his publication examined a green energy program that had received millions of dollars in public funding, but had done little work. While participating in the Society of American Business [...]
Shauntel Lowe, a local editor for AOL’s Patch.com who covers the Rancho Bernardo community in San Diego, works with her beat without the benefits of a bustling newsroom. As an editor, Lowe handles many facets of the site, including prioritizing and editing Patch.com’s coverage with her team of freelancers. Lowe said working remotely is not as [...]
Michael Lawson, a reporter at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, has covered a variety of topics. Since business is not exclusively his beat, he shared a few techniques he uses to keep informed on top trends. • Keep clicking: “When I’m in the course of my research I just let myself go into it so that [...]
In an era when many people are desperately clinging to their primary residence, the notion of owning a vacation home, cottage, time share or lot at an RV park likely has slipped off many a family’s radar screen. With the Fourth of July looming, it’s a good idea to take a look at the second-home [...]
When Toluse Olorunnipa of The Miami Herald wrote about a boom in affordable housing, readers called to tell him some “affordable” housing really wasn’t.
“I got a lot of calls from residents of a particular housing development complaining about rent increases,” he says. “So I started to look into the issue.”
The markets believe Greece needs a restructuring.
No, they don’t.
NYSE Euronext chief executive Duncan Niederauer can say something. The New York Stock Exchange, in a written statement or through an official, can say something. The market it enables cannot. The “market” is cold and lifeless. It couldn’t order a sandwich, let alone think about the “global economy.”
How we write and edit affects how people think. I can’t say it’s purposeful, but it’s safe to say that anthropomorphism (attributing human characteristics to things) can actually affect how real live people think about the markets.
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) has created a scholarship fund in memory of David Dietz, a Bloomberg Markets reporter and former president of the organization.
Dietz, 70, died of cancer in early June. The David Dietz Fund will provide up to $1,000 each year to a promising business journalist or student to attend the national IRE Conference. IRE announced in an email that Bloomberg has donated $10,000 to the fund. That and other donations mean the fund is more than half way to a permanently endowed program.
Jim Gold , a senior writer and editor at MSNBC.com, recently wrote a story about the increased involvement of corporations in U.S. foreign aid and volunteerism abroad. Gold’s “US foreign aid efforts get a corporate boost” details how the U.S. government is turning to more to private entities as it continues to deal with the [...]
Some interesting developments are raising questions about restaurant-business struggles as halfway through 2011 — a year that insiders had hoped would mark a rebound for the dining business hard hit by the tightening of consumer purse-strings. Wendy’s sold off the Arby’s roast-beef sandwich chain — currently billing itself as “the good-mood food” this week, for [...]
