Britt Johnsen and Kirsti Marohn of the St. Cloud Times used empty lots to illustrate how the recession stalled new housing developments in a three-part series. Through their reporting, they found their three-county area had 12,000 empty lots. In Avon, a city near St. Cloud, the recession thwarted plans for two developments. In part two, [...]
Britt Johnsen and Kirsti Marohn produced a great three-part series called “Gambling on Growth” for the St. Cloud Times using empty lots to show the recession’s impact on new housing developments. The series won a Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists last year. Through their reporting, they [...]
We may know by Friday if state attorneys general have reached a deal - reportedly worth up to $25 billion – with five major banks accused of deceptive practices that exacerbated foreclosure problems for struggling homeowners. The banks involved are Bank of America, Wells Fargo & Co, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Citigroup and Ally Financial Inc. The [...]
Susan Berfield of Bloomberg Businessweek produced a well-researched and -written piece covering a “tale of economic desperation” in Moberly, Mo. She details the town’s relationship with “a short, chubby, well-dressed executive from Beverly Hills named Bruce Cole.” His company, Mamtek, planned to build an artificial-sweetener plant that would employ 612. Excited city officials dove into the deal within three weeks of meeting him and approved $39 million in municipal bonds for the company.
Eric Lipton is a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter stationed in The New York Times’ Washington bureau . He wrote The Reckoning, a series on why the recession started, and Back to Business a series about players trying to profit off the recession. From Jan. 2-5, Lipton was a fellow in the Reynolds Center’s Strictly Financials Seminar. We caught [...]
Jodie Fleischer of WSB-TV in Atlanta won an Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Award for an investigative series showing a new twist on the foreclosure stories: so-called sovereign citizens who allege they are immune from prosecution under state laws. The duPont Awards recognize the best in broadcast journalism from the previous year.
This free workshop in Fort Worth on April 26 is designed to help community journalists cover local business better. Whether it’s finding stories in the municipal budget, the local economic-development agency or area small businesses, business and the economy are big news on Main Street, as well as Wall Street.
Geared to the needs of generalists on small staffs, this daylong training will arm you with resources, tips and ideas to bring more meaningful coverage of this important topic to your community.
Whether it’s finding stories in the municipal budget, the local economic-development agency or area small businesses, business and the economy are big news on Main Street, as well as Wall Street.
Geared to the needs of generalists on small staffs, this daylong training will arm you with resources, tips and ideas to bring more meaningful coverage of this important topic to your community.
Sears Holdings Inc., parent company of the Sears and Kmart retail stores, didn’t waste any time reacting to the lumps of coal it earned from consumers this Christmas season; as you’ve probably heard, the New Year hadn’t yet tolled when the commpany announced it would close up to 120 stores after same-store sales down an [...]
