Author Archive for Linda Austin

Linda Austin is the executive director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. A former business editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, she spent the past decade as a top newsroom leader, serving as the editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky; executive editor of The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind.; and managing editor of the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

New, nonprofit news site offers $2,500 grants to investigate Fla. stories

By Linda Austin on Sep 08, 2010 in Basics, Career tips, Entrepreneurs, Investigation, Job listings

The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR) – a new, nonprofit news organization — will pay up to $2,500 to finance investigative projects that affect Florida.
Deadline to apply is Sept. 30.
The center “is particularly interested in funding projects dealing with government corruption, waste and inefficiency; immigration; education; and social justice,” according to its website. “Projects will be distributed on [...]

New $5,000 Gomory Prizes recognize work on a company’s impact on national economy

By Linda Austin on Sep 07, 2010 in Basics, Career tips

The Business History Conference is offering two $5,000 prizes for historical work recognizing “the effect business enterprises have on the economic conditions of a country in which they operate.”
The awards, one for a book and one for an article published in either 2009 or 2010, honor Ralph Gomory, who is an American businessman, author, mathematician, executive and research [...]

Live chat with personal branding expert Dan Schawbel on Sept. 21

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Instructor:Personal branding expert Dan Schawbel
Location: Online
Date and Time: 1:30-2:15 p.m. EDT Sept. 21
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Get your questions answered about how best to build your brand as a business journalist during a live chat with personal branding expert Dan Schawbel on Sept. 21.
The author of the book, “Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to [...]

SmartCEO magazine expands to Philly, hiring freelancers

By Linda Austin on Sep 03, 2010 in Basics, Career tips, Entrepreneurs, Job listings

SmartCEO monthly magazine, which started in 2001 in Baltimore and expanded to Washington, is adding an edition in Philadelphia next week. Associate Editor Rachel Cieri and Editor Jeanine Clingenpeel answer questions about the publication and the company:
Q: Are you hiring any business journalists either full-time or as freelancers for the publication? If so, how should people [...]

Last day is Sept. 3 to apply for NPF, SAJA aid to attend Wharton Seminar for Business Journalists

By Linda Austin on Sep 02, 2010 in Basics, Career tips, Networking

The deadline is Sept. 3 to apply for a National Press Foundation or SAJA fellowship to attend the annual Wharton Seminar for Business Journalists in Philadelphia. The seminar will be Oct. 10-13 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Attendees learn about business from Wharton faculty and business leaders, as well as compete in a computer-simulated, strategic-management exercise.
Several other aid opportunities for [...]

$600,000 news anchor, $350,000 weathercaster not the norm for local broadcast journalists

By Linda Austin on Sep 01, 2010 in Basics, Career tips

Somewhere out there in a local TV station, there’s a $600,000 news anchor and a $350,000 weathercaster, but that’s certainly not the norm in the recently released RTNDA/Hofstra University Annual Survey of local broadcast-news salaries.
The median (half make more, half make less) for TV news anchors is $59,000 and for weathercasters is $50,000, and there [...]

D.C.-area newsletter seeks banking reporter

By Linda Austin on Aug 31, 2010 in Basics, Investing | Banking, Job listings, Jobs

Lisa Getter, co-publisher of Bank Safety & Soundness Advisor, is looking for a banking reporter who understands the following terms: CAMELS ratings, Call Reports and consent orders.
The newsletter, based in Gaithersburg, Md., is directed at bank executives, she says, and its mission is “helping financial institutions thrive in the shifting regulatory environment,” according to its website. [...]

IRE offers database of SBA disaster loans

By Linda Austin on Aug 30, 2010 in Basics, IRE, Investigation, Latest, Real estate | Econ development, Small | Private | Non-profit, Story ideas

Investigative Reporters and Editors is offering a database of disaster loans made by the Small Business Administration from fiscal 1980 to 2009. Journalists can use this database of 1,088,565 records to find where SBA disaster loans went in their market or determine who is not paying back SBA disaster loans, according to IRE Training Director [...]

U.S. business journalists’ median salary is $65,000-70,000, SABEW reports

By Linda Austin on Aug 19, 2010 in Basics, Career tips, Featured, Jobs, Latest, Media | Advertising

Business journalists in the United States have a median salary of between $65,000 and $70,ooo, according to an informal survey in July and August by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW).
That compares to a median salary of just over $60,000 in a survey of 473 randomly selected business journalists conducted by a [...]