News about the debt ceiling was replaced by news about the economy last week as the top story of the week, Aug. 8-14, 2011, according to Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. The economy replaced the debt ceiling as the most covered topic. And the Republican debate in Iowa propelled the 2012 presidential [...]
When I saw the Reuters headline, “Goldman’s new money machine: warehouses,” I knew I had to read the story. After all, isn’t Goldman an investment banking firm?
U.S. business journalists reported a median salary of $56,220 for 2010-11, according to research for the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.
Other findings: 14 percent of those business journalists surveyed in mid-July said their newsroom was currently hiring full-time journalists, and one in five said their newsroom had shrunk in the past six months.
While much of the online news world was discussing the fact that Google agreed to buy Motorola Mobility in a $12.5 billion cash, this story caught my eye: MediaNews Group Adds Paywalls To 23 More Newspapers The Google deal, which some say may have more to do with TV than mobile phones, if approved, puts [...]
The “that can’t really be happening” video of the tragic Saturday-night stage collapse in Indiana — which killed five people and sent dozens more to hospital — still is prominent on the airwaves today as officials investigate the deadly combination of weather and possible defects in the rigging of the temporary stage.
It’s going to be a high-visibility story for some time to come, and one you might want to localize with a look at the inspection and regulation of public entertainment venues in your region.
Mentioning a company’s rank in its industry is pretty much automatic in news stories. But you cannot name the No. 2 or No. 3 company without saying which is No. 1. Failing to do so will get people guessing – especially if there’s ambiguity. Perhaps it’s time to reconsider how we rank these companies
Or, perhaps it’s time to stop ranking altogether.
Last week’s appeals court smackdown of the individual health insurance requirement that was a key part of 2009 health care reform is a new milestone in the ongoing health coverage saga. Combined with the need for back-to-school physicals, looming open-enrollment season in some health care plans and other news pegs, it makes now a good [...]
Doug Hanks of The Miami Herald emailed me with a great tip for covering Bureau of Economic Analysis data: compare income from work versus income from the government.
In my own personal experience as a reporter when a local business or manufacturing plant shuts its doors, it’s either feast or famine when it comes to getting the story.
