A story by Raquel Rutledge and Rick Barrett that won the Barlett & Steele Silver Award for 2011 has been selected to be part of the “Best Business Writing 2012,” a book to be published in June by Columbia University Press. Rutledge and Barrett, reporters at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, received the silver award in [...]
Arizona’s 100 years in business Arizona turns 100 on Feb. 14 and a team of print and web journalists have been scurrying for months to pull together fun and educational ways to celebrate the event. This crowd-sourced package of photos will interest business journalists … or anyone interested in business or the Southwest. The Arizona [...]
We’ll chat live with David Brancaccio, a special correspondent for Marketplace’s Economy 4.0 and host of the Marketplace Index, on Tuesday, Jan. 31, from 11:30 a.m-12:15 p.m. ET. Brancaccio, a broadcaster for 33 years, was previously the anchor of public television’s NOW, an award-winning newsmagazine of investigative reporting and in-depth interviews. He also hosted California Connected. Before [...]
Zoe Chace of NPR’s Planet Money breaks down the finances of the music industry in such a smart and accessible way. This is how Chace’s online text story begins: “If you listen to commercial radio, this is not news: Katy Perry had a huge year. She went No.1 five times. She was the most played [...]
Well, this has to be some kind of a record: An Italian site is selling T-shirts emblazoned with the terse command “Vada a bordo, cazzo!” issued by the Italian Coast Guard official fast earning fame for his fire-and-brimstone rebukes to Costa Concordia Captain Francesco Schettino. By some web accounts, that command translates roughly to “Get [...]
According to 2,583 people who follow ProPublica.org, print newspapers continue to decline as a primary source for news.
It’s nearly post time and the reindeer are nearing the starting gate! One more full week of pre-holiday coverage and Christmas 2011 will be a wrap. You know about the last-minute shopping stories, the gift-card policy round-ups and other old favorites (and there’s a reason they are; they’re useful to our audience) – but if [...]
The Indianapolis Business Journal won an Editor & Publisher EPPY award, which honors the best media-affiliated websites, for Best Business/Finance Website with under 250,000 unique monthly visitors.
Online editor Andrea Davis says there are no secrets on how the paper produces its online news. It’s all about experience.
Bloomberg Blog tells us today that Bloomberg.com is going to focus on reporting on sustainability from the business executives’ point of view.
