I became Web managing editor at the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism in mid-2009. Before that I was Online Community Manager for azcentral, the online site for The Arizona Republic. Before arriving in Arizona, I worked at Newsday where I was Deputy Business Editor. I was the small business editor at BusinessWeek Online. I teach journalists to use Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools to expand and manage their networks.
The Wall Street Journal has named Deborah Needleman, founding editor of Condé Nast’s domino magazine, to a newly created role in which she will serve as editor in chief of WSJ., the Journal’s glossy lifestyle magazine, and editor of a new weekly Saturday lifestyle section in development for the Journal for the fall.
Effective Sept. 1, [...]
The free, weeklong “Understanding Financial Statements” online seminar originally was held July 19-23. It covers income statements, balance sheets, cash flows and writing about numbers.
As one past participant said, “This course really revolutionized my reporting. I felt much more confident writing my last earnings story.”
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This seminar was led by James Gentry, a professor and [...]
How the government says Goldman Sachs defrauded investors
USA Today proves that business videos are hard to do… to do well.
This ambitious video combines graphics and animation to try to explain what happened with Goldman Sachs. Did they succeed? You be the judge.
This really is a big project and no doubt took several writers, [...]
James Gentry, a professor and former dean at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas.
Gentry is nationally known for his ability to turn complicated financial and accounting information into understandable language for corporate communicators and journalists.
Over the past 25 years, he has taught thousands of communicators and journalists how to [...]
William Baldwin told his editorial colleagues this morning that he was stepping down as Editor of Forbes magazine, a post that he has held since 1999.
Business Insider’s The Wire: Longtime Top Forbes Editor William Baldwin Is Changing Roles To Become A Writer
Poynter: Statement from Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes: Bill Baldwin’s move to writer
Beginning Sept. 1, Forbes [...]
Top list story of the day: Top 5 Business News Websites
CompanyAGE.com is a brand new Web site created by a British entrepreneur who says he wants to share business experiences while delivering “short, snappy and interesting articles that are business focused.”
The website covers a range of company issues with regular daily updates. Bowen’s site [...]
U.S. retailers are gearing up for back to school season and business journalists are gearing up to cover it.
A new forecast says parents will spend more than $600 on average on K-12 students, according to the National Retail Federation.
This CNBC report is a nicely fleshed-out piece about back-to-school season, the second biggest shopping [...]
One British company reaches way outside the box to publish its annual financial results.
Home Retail Group, a major U.K. retailer, took what anyone who covers the corporate world realizes was a bold step to create this annual report video. | Full report.
Here’s how they did it: SAS Design | 3 days, 2,128 [...]
A deal between CNBC and Cisco Systems may be blurring the lines of journalism ethics, says Brian Steinberg of AdAge.com.
Steinberg writes that Cisco Systems is getting prominent on-screen time during CNBC’s news programs. The business cable news channel is using Cisco’s TelePresence videoconferencing technology to help them reach a wider number of talking heads as [...]
