Sometime between your first assignment and your retirement party — or when your newspaper closes — you will have to become a master of the Difficult Conversation. It can take many forms and handling it well doesn’t come naturally. Young people are naturally defensive. And when I was coming up, journalism was a haven for [...]

Nineteen journalists have been chosen to receive scholarships to attend SABEW’s 50th anniversary conference in Washington, D.C., April 4-6. Funding came from four separate sources – SABEW’s Dave Morrow and Benita Newton funds, plus charitable contributions from the Goldschmidt Family Foundation and the SABEW Chair at the University of Missouri, said Warren Watson, SABEW executive [...]

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) has announced its 2013 Best in Business Awards, with a total of 134 winners. Jill Jorden Spits, SABEW president, said the contest attracted 1,120 entries this year. Bloomberg News and its related magazines, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Businessweek, received the highest number of awards with 14; [...]

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has awarded two journalists a $1,000 fellowship each to attend the 50th annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in Washington April 4-6.

Carlie Kollath Wells, a New Orleans-based freelance reporter, is attending the Key Executives Mega-Conference this week in New Orleans. She will be sharing what she’s hearing from news executives. Follow the conference attendees on Twitter at #2013megaconf. A newspaper’s competitive advantage over TV is the size of its newsroom, according to a Texas publisher. Jim Moroney [...]

Carlie Kollath Wells, a New Orleans-based freelance reporter, is attending the Key Executives Mega-Conference this week in New Orleans. She will be sharing what she’s hearing from news executives. Follow the conference attendees on Twitter at #2013megaconf. The new Times-Picayune newsroom is meant to encourage brainstorming and collaboration, the publisher said at a conference Tuesday. [...]

Carlie Kollath Wells, a New Orleans-based freelance reporter, is attending the Key Executives Mega-Conference this week in New Orleans. She will be sharing what she’s hearing from news executives. Media organizations will be better prepared for the future if they hire platform-agile employees, according to the opening speaker at an industry convention Monday. The Inland [...]

The Poynter Institute — which, as “a school dedicated to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders,” brings us the wisdom of such luminaries as Roy Peter Clark* and Al Tomkins,** — provides a textbook example of less-than-best practices in its recent report on NBC’s decision to close the hyperlocal-news project EveryBlock. MediaWire, Poynter’s comparatively lame [...]

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will award two $1,000 fellowships to attend the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in Washington April 4-6. This year marks SABEW’s historic 50-year anniversary. The Reynolds Center fellowship is open to full-time journalists who want to attend the center’s [...]