Burn no bridges: That was the No. 1 lesson learned by Tom Musbach who just landed a job as Senior Editor of Yahoo! Small Business. | Now leaving the Jobless Zone Why? Because after a six-month search, he’s headed back to the company that laid him off in February. Musbach will be heading to a [...]
In an increasingly globalized world, there’s a greater need for business coverage on an international scale. As developed countries like China, Brazil and the U.S. compete for market share in emerging economies and grow their consumer classes, the time is ripe for more journalists to produce balanced, accurate and well informed reporting from beyond their borders. If [...]
My grocery cart screeched to a halt the other day when I spotted a shelf tag announcing that a can of generic store-brand wax beans at my local market is up to $1.07 cents. For one can! These bland little beans were 50 cents a tin in recent memory and it seems that only months ago they were [...]
Cynthia Burton of The Philadelphia Inquirer saw an increasing number of sheriff’s sales of houses in Willingboro, N.J.
Today’s Tip: Approach data companies to get detailed information about where foreclosures are happening in your area.
One of the best projects I did was looking at all the major sports non-profits, including the professional sports teams, in the Phoenix area to see how they were serving the community. I pulled the 990s and did a comparison by looking at the same time period to see how much was raised and how [...]
Whether you come to the business of sports beat as a sports reporter or from the business desk, you’ll need to be familiar with business terms. Here are some terms you would find in the financial records for non-profit organizations, which run sports-related businesses in small and large communities. Keeping this list of terms handy [...]
It’s been said many times, but again: Always double check what you believe are facts, especially when there isn’t a paper trail to confirm figures. The biggest error I made in covering sports business came a few years ago when I didn’t do enough homework on a Phoenix-area businessman who tried to buy the Minnesota [...]
The go-to source in sports business coverage is the Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal. There is also a print edition, which I highly recommend subscribing to. Other sources are: Forbes.com, which annually ranks the value of professional sports teams and estimates revenues and expenses. The sports section of USAtoday.com, which gathers all the salary information [...]
The business of sports is going beyond game coverage and box scores and delving into the financial operations of professional teams, universities and non-profit organizations, which operate amateur athletic events, college booster clubs and college football bowls. Covering sports business can be a significant beat in a sports Mecca like metro-Phoenix, where (so far) there [...]
