Angel Gonzalez helps lead the coverage of the energy industry for one of the world's top financial information services. In this basics package, he shares his insider secretes and tips for covering the beat.
Recent news that carbon dioxide levels in the air have reached milestone levels (or near-milestone; some numbers were revised) got me to pondering some possible business stories related to the gas itself rather than to the larger and more amorphous topic of climate change. If you need to brush up on your science, here’s the entry [...]
Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer won a Pulitzer Prize this year for their InsideClimate News series “The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of,” which looked the impact of a diluted bitumen or “dilbit” spill in Michigan. Elizabeth says she discovered the spill while looking at energy and environmental [...]
Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer won a Pulitzer Prize this year for their InsideClimate News series “The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of,” which looked the impact of a diluted bitumen, or “dilbit,” spill in Michigan. I talked with Lisa, whose science background helped research the series, and [...]
With vivid images of the Texas fertilizer plant explosion still making headlines, you may be thinking about a workplace safety angle to the companies you cover. It’s a natural story to localize, as audiences ponder the relative perils they face on the job. From inspection records to prevalence of workers compensation claims to fatalities to [...]
Nothing like the topic of travel hassles to get people talking. Or weight. Or personal finances. Roll them all together and you’ve got a business news peg of epic proportions, especially just before the start of the summer travel season. Samoa Airlines has served up just such a morsel with its announcement that it will [...]
With a number of cable providers kicking off the new year by raising rates on subscribers, now might be a good moment for a look at cable television costs in your area, and alternatives for consumers — who are cutting the cable cord by the hundreds of thousands per year, according to recent reports. That [...]
Jobs and the economy will be center stage when President Obama delivers the 2013 State of the Union address this evening. Immigration, the across-the-board budget cuts of sequestions (a.k.a. the fiscal cliff), energy and other issues relevant to business also are likely to be mentioned by the president and in the two Republican rebuttals that [...]
Susan Phillips and Scott Detrow of StateImpact Pennsylvania were among the 14 winners of the 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for their series looking how Pennsylvania residents are affected by natural gas fracking. The awards recognize broadcast and digital journalism. Susan and Scott have been covering, as noted on the website, “Pennsylvania’s booming energy [...]
Silver and gold, silver and gold…It’s quite the refrain this season and not just in the venerable folk song about Christmas tree ornaments. And with consumers, small business and industry jittery over the “fiscal cliff” drumbeat and other fears for 2013, a look at how the metals market affects all of the above in your region might [...]
