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_
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 [...]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The saying goes that all politics is local. The same can be said about economics.
From her vantage point as editor for tax policy at Bloomberg News in Washington, Jodi Schneider offered 15 national business stories that you can localize right now.
If your training budget’s been squeezed, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism can help with free training in business journalism. Check out our fall training schedule. We have free workshops on computer-assisted reporting in Seattle and Cleveland, on covering business on tribal lands in Fort Lauderdale, and on taming info overload in [...]
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) is offering a database of disaster loans made by the Small Business Administration (SBA) from fiscal 1980 to 2010. Journalists can use this database of 1.1 million 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 Jaimi Dowdell.
ORLANDO — From college athletics to art museums to foreclosure and economic incentives, the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Conference provides a story-idea palooza. Here are some that you can try at home:
ORLANDO — The word given to Dustin Hoffman’s character in “The Graduate” may have been “plastics,” but two Pulitzer Prize winners say “insurance.”
In separate sessions at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference, both Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times indicated that insurance is a good area of coverage in which to make a name for yourself as a journalist.
ORLANDO — Hospitals are among the largest businesses in some communities, but they often get a pass when it comes to how well they are serving their customers — the patients in your area who use them.
