Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) is offering a database of disaster loans made by the Small Business Administration (SBA) from fiscal 1980 to 2010. Journalists can use this database of 1.1 million records to find where SBA disaster loans went in their market or determine who is not paying back SBA disaster loans, according to IRE Training Director Jaimi Dowdell.
Having been interviewed on Chinese television more than a dozen times in recent years, Reynolds Center President Andrew Leckey offers these tips, among others, on dealing with China in a commentary today for MarketWatch: • Many Chinese take personally the criticism of government policy. While we are often loudly critical of our government, they consider China one [...]
Business journalists in the United States have a median salary of between $65,000 and $70,ooo, according to an informal survey in July and August by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). That compares to a median salary of just over $60,000 in a survey of 473 randomly selected business journalists conducted by [...]
In what may be every media entrepreneur’s dream, just 11 months after launch, an aggregator of Minnesota news has attracted $1 million from The Dolan Co., which owns weekly business newspapers nationwide, and a Minneapolis public relations firm, Padilla Speer Beardsley. The site is BringMeTheNews.com, which Rick Kupchella founded in September 2009. He is a [...]
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The SABEW Fall Conference Oct. 1-2 in New York includes a daylong video-production workshop presented by the Reynolds Center, plus two of the most outspoken business journalists on Wall Street: Bloomberg News’ Jonathan Weil and the Fox News Channel’s Charlie Gasparino. Other speakers at the “Economy in Recovery Conference” at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism include [...]
The just announced 2010-2011 class of Donald W. Reynolds Fellows includes “entrepreneurs, digital game and Smartphone developers, and leaders in civic and print journalism,” according to the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri. The fellows spend an academic year at the institute developing “new ways to gather, process and deliver news, information and advertising.” [...]
Business stories at The Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, PBS’ Frontline and Bloomberg BusinessWeek won awards from the National Press Club. Wall Street Journal reporters Andy Pasztor and Susan Carey won the Dornheim Award for aviation coverage for their reporting on the crash of a Colgan Air turboprop near Buffalo, N.Y. “They revealed the minimal training of [...]
The New York Times is looking for an experienced show producer/video journalist to join its video department in New York, according to a job posting on Poynter.org. It states: “The candidate will be responsible for producing regular business programming, including daily news and interview segments — in close collaboration with the Times business desk. The [...]
