With the Dow Jones industrial average bobbing above and below 12,000 for weeks, we’ve thankfully seen fewer references to the “psychologically important” number. They have popped up here and there lately, but the business press, at least for now, seems largely to have backed away from that red herring. Apparently the absurdity of almost-daily challenges [...]
Felix Gillette of Bloomberg Businessweek encapsulates Las Vegas’ real estate drama in a recently story on how hastily built homes opened a new market in construction-defect lawsuits. The story says the environment allowed a “shadowy outfit” to cook up a “brazen scheme.” The story starts: “Before the market crashed and home prices tumbled, before federal [...]
It’s an historic event many despaired would ever come: the end to Operation New Dawn, the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Now, with final troops just about pulled out, as Reuters reports, another facet of relations with Iraq is dawning: an economic one. As the Reuters article points out, Iraq needs overseas investment to continue rebuilding [...]
According to 2,583 people who follow ProPublica.org, print newspapers continue to decline as a primary source for news.
Diana Henriques has accepted a buyout after more than 20 years working as an investigative financial reporter for The New York Times. But Henriques, best known recently for her extensive coverage of the Bernie Madoff scandal and subsequent book ‘The Wizard of Lies,” will continue working with the paper as a contributing writer effective today. In an e-mail [...]
The free workshop, “Covering the Green Economy,” was originally held at the InterContinental Miami Hotel on Oct. 19, 2011. This training was hosted by the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) and held during their annual conference.
It’s nearly post time and the reindeer are nearing the starting gate! One more full week of pre-holiday coverage and Christmas 2011 will be a wrap. You know about the last-minute shopping stories, the gift-card policy round-ups and other old favorites (and there’s a reason they are; they’re useful to our audience) – but if [...]
Inadequate nursing home care has created headlines across the country as cases of neglect increase. Robin Erb and Kristi Tanner of the Detroit Free Press found that inspectors in Michigan handed out serious citations nearly twice as often as the national average.
Mark Lagerkvist of the New Jersey Watchdog says “double-dipping” pensions are legendary in New Jersey, but proving they exist is the challenge. But he was up for it.
