Sheldon Jacobs knew he wouldn’t make it as a traditional business reporter, so he built a career providing expert investment advice to the general public. In 1974, he launched a monthly mutual-fund newsletter, The No-Load Fund Investor, and wrote his way to the top. Jacobs said there were several other publications specializing in no-loads when he started [...]
Whether he’s covering energy, oil prices, commodities or hurricanes, Russell Gold finds a way to connect with his readers. It was love that brought Gold to his current job as an energy beat reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Austin. He was a reporter first for the San Antonio Express-News before joining the Journal’s energy [...]
Angela Greiling Keane’s reporting has taken her to the crowded intersection where autos, technology and government merge. As a Bloomberg News reporter in Washington D.C., her beat includes transportation, auto-industry regulation and the U.S. Postal Service. Her dogged reporting earned her a Loeb finalist spot this year in the explanatory category for the story “End [...]
Luke Baker’s career has taken him all over the globe to report on everything from film festivals and football tournaments to the conflict in Congo and the Angolan Civil War. Now Baker has landed in Brussels where he covers finance and politics and serves as bureau chief. He is also a co-author of “Untold Stories [...]
Felix Salmon has blogged since the beginning of the blogosphere. Now he has 110 categories of articles, ranging from credit ratings to climate change, and has established himself as a fresh, authoritative voice on the business beat. Salmon launched his journalism career in 1995 as a graduate trainee for EuroMoney, a UK-based monthly magazine covering [...]
UNC’s Chris Roush on finding untapped financial stories and building a business journalism career
For Tim Logan, being a successful economics reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch means taking important national economic issues and making them relevant at the local level. Logan spent most of 2010 working on a series called “Can St. Louis Compete?” with his colleague, business columnist David Nicklaus. As St. Louis began emerging from the recession, Logan knew [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
