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Photos from SABEW 2010
By Robin J Phillips on Mar 19, 2010 in Featured, SABEW 2010, SABEW 2010 blog, Technology, Tools, TrendingTopic
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NPR wins award for look at Merck’s marketing of Fosamax
NPR’s Alix Spiegel won the Jack R. Howard Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation for a segment that explained how Merck & Co. Inc. increased profitability by helping to recast normal, mild bone loss as an ailment and then marketed an unnecessary prescription for it. She says:
“This is the story of how pills for osteopenia ended [...]
Find stories in the business of gardening
After a few months of freak snowstorms, floods and southern chills, your readers may be eyeing those colorful gardening catalogues with even more optimism than usual. Hoeing a row or two of beans will seem like a snap compared to slogging through slush and ice.
From houseplants to turf, from the odd rosebush to entire yards’ [...]
Boston Globe questions tax incentives for companies promising jobs
Todd Wallack
Todd Wallack of the Boston Globe writes about the lack of followup on tax breaks that cities and states use to lure companies. In Massachusetts, he found that no one checks back to ensure that the companies keep their hiring promises. He writes:
“A Fall River rubber parts maker pledged to create 20 jobs, but cut 36 instead. A manufacturer [...]
Quirky local indicators and other fun biz angles
By Melissa Preddy on Mar 18, 2010 in Beats, Economy, Featured, Personal finance, Private companies, Story ideas
Miscellaneous is probably my favorite among the 600,000-plus words in our English language. Like potpourri, salmagundi, hodgepodge, pastiche and its others sisters, it conjures up pleasant notions of variety, spontaneity and surprise.
That’s what you’re getting today: A veritable gallimaufry and mélange of topics that don’t quite merit their own posts but nevertheless will make for [...]
With ’so what,’ Milwaukee paper makes you care about patents backlog
By Rosland Gammon on Mar 17, 2010 in Best Practices, Economy, Featured, Investigation, Private companies
John Schmid and Ben Poston of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel were finalists in the business/economics reporting category for the National Journalism Awards sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation for their articles about how the backlog in patent applications affects the economy.
Their stories, and a nifty interactive timeline, are based on a plethora of numbers, and the topic on [...]
Humanizing health care reform in your region
By Melissa Preddy on Mar 17, 2010 in Beats, Economy, Featured, Health care, Non-profits, Personal finance, Story ideas
Health care reform limped back to center stage this week. And though the final outcome is as yet uncertain, one thing is for sure: Your readers will be wondering about how various scenarios will affect them.
That includes small businesspersons and corporate chiefs as well as individuals, so you have plenty of story angles from which [...]
Philly Inquirer maps data, finds higher unemployment in affluent areas
Business writer Jane M. Von Bergen of The Philadelphia Inquirer writes about unemployment among those in the area’s wealthier ZIP codes. The story started with counts of continuing-unemployment claims in July 2007 and July 2009 by ZIP code in the Philadelphia area, gathered from the Pennsylvania and New Jersey departments of labor.
Today’s Tip: Map data first to see [...]
Parse those proxies and attend annual meetings
Your readers are starting to find their mailboxes stuffed with bulky envelopes bearing annual reports and proxy statements.
Odds are fairly good that both items will head straight to the residential recycling bin. But there are several good reasons for business readers to take time to peruse the materials and to attend, if possible, annual shareholders [...]
