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 a 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. She offers business-story ideas and notes good #bizreads @LindaAustin_
Jump-start your business coverage and career with free training in business journalism this spring from the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. Journalists can learn at their desks with the center’s free, live Webinars on topics such as investigating private companies and nonprofits and using LinkedIn to find sources, plus understanding local economic [...]
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:
NEW YORK – Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff says to expect slower growth for some time because of the “overhang of debt” weighing on the economy.
Rogoff, former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund, also said he expected some countries in Europe to default on their debt.
NEW YORK – Top news executives from the three major financial news organizations expressed pessimism about the future of metro newspapers in particular and print publications in general.
Stephen J. Adler of Reuters, Norman Pearlstine of Bloomberg and Robert Thomson of Dow Jones spoke today in a rare public appearance together at the Fall Conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW).
NEW YORK- More than 40 journalists attended one of two sessions today of the Reynolds Center workshop, “Digital Efficiency for Business Journalists” at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
CUNY Professor Jeremy Caplan offered 50 tips to help cope with information overload (PDF).
I got a request recently from an editor looking to reinvent his major metro’s business desk: “Do you have any online materials that can help? Anyone write about the modern biz page and how to make it relevant? Anyone you suggest I talk to? Are there any business sections out there that you think are [...]
U.S. business journalists reported a median salary of $56,220 for 2010-11, according to research for the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.
Other findings: 14 percent of those business journalists surveyed in mid-July said their newsroom was currently hiring full-time journalists, and one in five said their newsroom had shrunk in the past six months.
U.S. business journalists – who keep their fingers on the economic pulse of their communities – said they expected business conditions in their local areas to improve in the next six months, according to a new survey commissioned by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. | Business Journalists Study 2011 (PDF) In [...]
Call it a cross between the old Al’s Morning Meeting on Poynter and #muckreads on ProPublica – but only for business stories. That’s what I hope to create – with your help – using my Twitter feed: @LindaAustin_ I’ve been contributing business-story ideas and recognizing well-done business stories as part of the Reynolds Center’s Twitter [...]
