Journalism programs at Colorado State University, Grambling State University, Texas Christian University and the University of South Carolina will be the first schools to receive visiting business journalism professors next spring under a $1.67 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.
The five-year program will ultimately create 11 visiting professorships at 11 different schools.
A blue billboard in New Orleans bearing only @NakedPizza – no phone number or anything else – caught Emily Glazer’s eye while on vacation. When she got back to New York, she called Naked Pizza to check it out. Her WSJ.com story found that the pizzeria’s Twitter-based marketing strategy has resulted in investments in the business.
Education is a big business. And it’s not just because tuition at some private universities costs more than several cars. It’s actually a real big business, with for-profit colleges developing into a major force of their own in the educational world. The degree to which a number of very large high-profile for-profit universities are actually [...]
We keep hearing stories about young people dying after using synthetic drugs. We also hear about state lawmakers pushing to ban the drugs, which are mostly sold online.
Larry Oakes of the StarTribune in Minneapolis got behind those headlines to delve into the shadowy world of synthetic-drug sellers, who are often difficult to track.
We’re in Seattle this week at the University of Washington with Jaimi Dowdell, training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors for Be a Better Business Watchdog: CAR for Business Journalists. We will be doing the same free workshop with Jaimi in Cleveland on Nov. 8.
Tuesday morning the Census Bureau released new data on the poorest Americans – and there are more of them than ever. The report (which you can read about here, Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010,) finds that the poverty rate increased for the third-straight year and now stands at 15.1 [...]
“Spencer Bachus, the House Republican chairman who wants to derail Dodd-Frank [financial] reforms, gets more than 80 percent of his campaign funds from the financial services industry.”
That’s one of the key findings of a report by John Wasik for the Center for Public Integrity on the millions in campaign contributions that the financial services industry has made to members of Congress.
In 2008, when the financial crisis just about hit its peak, the term “too big to fail” started getting tossed around. It was the idea that certain banks had grown so big and so powerful that if the government didn’t prop them up, there would be an economic disaster. Fast-forward three years through much more [...]
The Association of Health Care Journalists is offering a workshop on covering the business of health care Oct. 27-28 in San Francisco.
