NEW YORK – Bill McGowan is founder and CEO of Clarity Media Group, a firm here that trains TV journalists and corporate clients in how to look good on television.
He offered these tips today to prepare journalists for television interviews at the Society of Business Editors and Writers Fall Conference at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism:
Banking is a beat which demands you draw on sources locally, nationally and internationally. Here are some good ones to get you started: Good Sources on Failures KBW Inc., parent of investment banking firm Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc., puts out a weekly roundup-style research note with all of the M&A (mergers and acquisitions) [...]
We all know that social media is becoming a great place to follow sources. Here are some good Twitter accounts to follow. (And you can find more business writers and resources in the lists created by the Reynolds Center. @BizJournalism lists. ) Twitter Feeds: PhilAngelides Phil Angelides Phil Angelides was chairman of the Financial [...]
There are several challenges to bank reporting, some you can anticipate, some you cannot. This list of tips is designed to help prepare you in a way that will help limit the challenges and reduce the time you may take navigating them. Like any specialized coverage area, the beat has a vocabulary of its own. [...]
Here are several of the key resources, local and national, for the banking industry. FDIC The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) is the federal agency that insures deposits and acts as the receiver for most failed banks. Its website is a treasure trove of data and information, ranging from basic facts about the industry [...]
Banking surely is a beat with a language all its own. This is a list of some of the key terms you’ll need to know and will come across frequently. The three sites I consulted in the arrangement of this glossary, are named below. Asset—Anything on the balance sheet with value to the company. In [...]
Find the lawyers. Just about every major law firm in town will have banking and finance experts who work with institutions on recapitalizations, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory issues and the like. Lawyers have a direct line to the bankers in your community, and although it’s highly unlikely they’ll break client confidentiality to help you, they [...]
Banks are still failing at a fast clip, and though the bulk of the failures have been concentrated in a handful of states, like Georgia and Illinois, they can happen anywhere and at any time. Scott Trubey, a banking reporter with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, says he’s handled the large quantities of Georgia bank failures by [...]
Welcome to one of the most exciting beats in business—at least at the moment. Wall Street aside, the workaday job of traditional banks had long been seen as staid and un-newsworthy, until banks of all sizes and in practically every geographic market got swept up in the latest crisis and started failing by the hundreds. [...]
