The economy is one of the most important beats for any journalist. It covers prices, interest rates, trade, unemployment, wages, government spending, taxes, etc. Grant Hannis, who spent 14 years as a senior financial journalist at Consumer magazine, breaks down the basics.
A local independent pet store that’s been around for years recently started advertising a courtesy home-delivery service. When I inquired about it, I got the sense that it was an effort to combat competition from online shopping services. That was a light-bulb moment, and indeed in checking Amazon, I found my dogs’ preferred brand for [...]
Remember that scene in “The Firm” where a giddy Tom Cruise, awed by the largesse his new job affords, is told that his employer will take care of his student loans, too? These days, legal and other grads are lucky to get a paycheck let alone plump perks.
You may have seen some of the “Too broke to go bankrupt” stories that ran last week, based on this report by the National Bureau of Economic Research. (The report is available free of charge to journalists, upon request.) The gist is that, according to the report, as many as one million American households may be [...]
The free workshop, “Uncovering the Best Local Business Stories,” was first held at the University of Kentucky’s Institute for Rural Journalism on April 13, 2012.
Below are Kentucky-specific materials and resources provided during the free training.
The free workshop, “Uncovering the Best Local Business Stories,” was originally held at the University of Kentucky’s Institute for Rural Journalism on April 13, 2012, and at Texas Christian University’s Texas Center for Community Journalism on April 26, 2012.
One intriguing financial story that may not have made your radar screen, though it’s ripe for localizing, is the drop in Herbalife’s stock price after an investor asked some pointed questions during a conference call. Here’s a Dow Jones piece on the matter; basically investor David Einhorn grilled Herbalife’s CEO about its distributor network, sales [...]
Many people kick themselves for failing to implement that one great “woulda, coulda, shoulda,” idea — and I’m one of them. Back when the Internet was first becoming mainstream, I wanted to create an online directory of yard sales and garage sales, complete with a mapping function and e-mail alerts. Floating the idea among friends and [...]
Nomophobia — fear of being without one’s cell phone — is on the rise, according to a survey released earlier this year by the U.K. firm SecurEnvoy. Two-thirds of the people it polled said they have the phobia, with many owning a back-up phone just in case. Mobile technology has come a long way from [...]
People sometimes ask me why I listen to the truckers’ network on satellite radio. Mainly, I do it because tuning in to those news segments and call-in programs — with participants with names like Stormchaser in Oregon or Road Warrior from North Carolina chiming in from their rigs — distracts me from the same-old, same-old Michigan highways [...]
