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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Prior to joining FBN, Rothman served as a dayside anchor at Bloomberg Television covering markets, corporate earnings, and the global economic recession. While there, Rothman interviewed major financial newsmakers including: BlackRock Vice Chairman Bob Doll; Rochdale Securities analyst Dick Bove; billionaire investor Wilbur Ross and former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Christina Romer. [...]
St. Petersburg Times business reporter Jeff Harrington has watched the already-quirky state of Florida ride through a wild economic decade, ending as one of the country’s biggest casualties of the housing bubble. He has been with the Times since 1998 after stints in Chicago, Toledo and Cincinnati. In 2003, he won a Gerald Loeb award [...]
Rick Barrett is a business writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, whose home state of Wisconsin has struggled with a manufacturing slump and, more recently, a labor battle that has made national headlines. He has been a reporter at the Journal Sentinel for 10 years and previously worked for the Wisconsin State Journal, Gannett newspapers [...]
