As if being at the center of the biggest story in recent years isn’t enough, business journalists also tend to earn more than the average reporter. The hours may not always be better, but the jobs are there. And there are lots of ways to get them. Wall Street Journal reporter Simon Constable, host of the [...]
By Lacey Mayo, Grambling State University Numbers, math and business are three words mass communication majors probably never imagine they’d hear when talking about their future, but they are important parts of business and financial journalism. During her first visit to Grambling State University, Kim Quillen, the business editor at The Times-Picayune and a board [...]
Matt Apuzzo, a Reynolds Center presenter, and Michael J. Berens, a 2011 winner of the Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Reporting, have each won the Pulitzer Prize for their investigative work. Apuzzo and his Associated Press’ colleagues, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley, grabbed an Investigative Reporting Pulitzer Prize for their probe into the New [...]
A conversation sparked on the heels of this year’s Society of Business Editors and Writers annual conference about the visible void of diversity in business journalism. And now, just two weeks after the topic took center stage, the chatter has turned to action. Christopher Nelson, a freelance journalist and graduate student at Georgetown University Law Center, [...]
Since graduating from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Mass Communication in 2008, Annalyn Censky has logged more than 800 bylines covering the economy for CNNMoney.com Censky covers economic indicators like the Consumer Price Index, gross domestic product and also the Fed. She took a quick break from her dogged reporting on Monday [...]
She’s been called “the best financial news tweeter extant” and a human aggregator who “always has relevant stories about Wall Street.” Marketplace New York Bureau Chief Heidi N. Moore’s byline should already be familiar to regular readers of this site. Her Twitter handle should be too. For anyone interested in following Wall Street news online, [...]
BY WILL SUTTON Reynolds Visiting Professor, Grambling State University DIVERSITY. There, I said it. For far too many, it’s the equivalent of a four-letter word. It shouldn’t be that way. Diversity is the right way to go, and, yes, it is good business. Add to this conversation: DIVERSITY IN BUSINESS JOURNALISM COMMENTS: We’re collecting COMMENTS [...]
BY WILL SUTTON Will Sutton is the Reynolds Visiting Professor of Business Journalism in the Department of Mass Communication at Grambling State University in Grambling, La. The lack of diversity in business journalism doesn’t have to be a problem if we work together to define, agree on and implement specific initiatives. We can do this [...]
Ham will be the centerpiece of many Easter dinners this weekend, but the cost of that traditional main dish may make it harder for families to live high on the hog. (AP) Burger King is dusting off its crown and going public again. (AP) Occasionally you will come across something awful that you know everyone [...]
