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UNC’s Chris Roush points to untapped business stories and offers simple tips to improve coverage
By Brenda Yanez on Apr 23, 2012UNC’s Chris Roush on finding untapped financial stories and building a business journalism career
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Marketplace’s Heidi N. Moore on covering banks and the switch to radio
From breaking the news about Barclays buying Lehman Brothers’ investment bank to being a commentator in The End of Wall Street, Heidi N. Moore has been in the thick of it during the highs and lows of the world financial crisis. And while Moore has spent over a decade covering mergers, acquisitions, and banks for [...]
Investigative reporter David Heath on the coolness factor of business journalism
After being assigned to write about the bankruptcy of a life insurance company early on in his career, David Heath found himself far from excited. Thinking it would be the dullest story he’d ever have to do, Heath wasn’t expecting such a relatively straightforward, uninteresting topic to become his first of many investigative stories. Turned out there [...]
The New York Times’ Charles Duhigg discusses his book ‘The Power of Habit’
Charles Duhigg, an investigative reporter with the New York Times, recently released his book “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business.” The book balances the science of habits with examples of business and personal applications. Looking at the scientific aspect of habits, Charles covers areas such as the [...]
Award-winning journalist Mei Fong offers tips for reporting on Asia
While reporting in Asia for more than a decade, Mei Fong investigated the controversial backstage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, visited the site of debris after the Sichuan earthquake, and disclosed the hidden link between a small town’s brand-new factory and its climbing cancer rate. Fong’s commitment to finding the human story behind major economic [...]
The Arizona Republic’s Ken Alltucker on tackling the business of health care
Ken Alltucker has covered the different faces of healthcare, especially focusing on business and technology trends. He believes healthcare is an intriguing issue not just because of the drama involved, but also because it’s big business. As a health and biotechnology reporter with the business desk at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, his stories range from healthcare [...]
Bloomberg’s Jonathan Kaufman: On building a prize-winning team
While the rest of the world was making merry or hanging over from the late-night binges last winter holidays, Bloomberg News education editor Jonathan Kaufman and his team of reporters, Daniel Golden, John Hechinger and John Lauerman were frantically punching away at their keyboards to put together the last stories of their investigative series, Education [...]
Public radio reporter Curt Nickisch: Thoughts on covering technology and the green economy
As the only business and technology reporter at WBUR-FM, NPR’s station in Boston, Curt Nickisch casts his net wide, covering stories from green energy to personal finance and entrepreneurship. Despite his chemistry degree, Curt Nickisch veered into the field of journalism and has found himself a home in public radio. Even without the benefit of visuals [...]
Blogger Francine McKenna: On auditing, the Loeb award and mining Google alerts
Francine McKenna has been blogging since late 2006 when she started her site, re: The Auditors, where she tracks the big four firms, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and KPMG. McKenna worked in the auditing industry for more than 25 years and was employed at two of the four firms in her career. [...]
