REYNOLDS BUSINESS JOURNALISM WEEK AGENDA “Business Journalism Professors Seminar” Jan. 2-5, 2012, Phoenix, Ariz. MONDAY — Jan. 2 8 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Combined groups) - First Amendment Forum 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductions (Combined groups) - Forum, Andrew Leckey 9 a.m. “Today’s Business Journalists as Investigators” (Combined groups) - Forum, Diana B. Henriques 10:15-10:30 a.m. Break – Computer [...]
REYNOLDS BUSINESS JOURNALISM WEEK AGENDA “Business Journalism Professors Seminar” Jan. 2-5, 2012, Phoenix, Ariz. MONDAY — Jan. 2 8 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Combined groups) - First Amendment Forum 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductions (Combined groups) - Forum, Andrew Leckey 9 a.m. “Today’s Business Journalists as Investigators” (Combined groups) - Forum, Diana B. Henriques 10:15-10:30 a.m. Break – Computer [...]
As a blogger on best practices for BusinessJournalism.org, I’ve read scores of amazing business stories, talked with more than 200 reporters and passed along lots of useful tips to you this year. So when my editor asked me to whittle that down to the five best tips, I knew I had a challenge. What follows are tips from reporters on some of the hottest, or most topical, stories of the year. It’s not an exhaustive list, but deadline calls.
At the Chicago Tribune, Ellen Gabler looked into the number of deaths caused by crib bumpers, which wrap around the inside of a crib to make it look cozy and “help prevent babies from bumping their heads or getting their limbs caught in crib slats.”
She found that there could be more deaths associated with the bumpers than the more than two dozen reports in the past two decades that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission acknowledged.
After the indulgences of the last quarter — be they financial, food-related or just an accumulation of more stuff — many people are overtaken with a self-improvement bug as they open crisp new calendars to January. And that’s good news for businesses that perhaps were idle during the hedonistic holidays but now are in demand [...]
The year 2011 has been an exciting for how we practice journalism. In fact, I think this year finally marked the tipping point in which every journalist became a multimedia journalist. The old silos have crumbled across even the most venerable and well-funded newsrooms, and written reports, videos, graphics and photos are now expected from [...]
Laurie Segall of CNNMoney article gets right to the point with its headline: “What’s really behind Twitter’s staff exodus?” She reports:
“The speed and depth of Twitter’s staff purge caught many by surprise — including some of the company’s own employees.”
Sometimes the germs of interesting business features pop up during the most mundane transactions. I had to purchase a new car battery some weeks ago and was shocked that the “core fee,” as it’s called here, had more than doubled in a year. The core fee is a charge you pay until you bring the old battery back. And it has to do with scrap metal costs.
Andrew Leckey, president of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, starting in January will no longer be writing his twice-weekly syndicated investment column for Tribune Media Services, which it has carried for more than 26 years.
