As David Carr of The New York Times said early in November, the business of business may be back, but the business of covering it is not. And probably will never be again.
Business magazines are slashing staffs and cutting pages. Business desks have trimmed the ranks. But there is still an appetite for reading [...]
Rosland Gammon is a former business journalist turned college instructor. Her newsroom experience includes reporting for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and reporting and editing at Bloomberg News. Gammon currently teaches communications at Alverno College in Milwaukee.
She writes daily for BusinessJournalism.org specializing on best practices from business journalists around the United States. I recently asked her about [...]
Veteran financial writer Melissa Preddy served as a business writer, editor and columnist for The Detroit News from 1995 to 2008, is a Michigan-based freelance journalist. She writes daily for BusinessJournalism.org and specializes in helping reporters come up with good, unique stories ideas. I recently asked her to elaborate on how she finds good story [...]
Andi Esposito, former business editor of the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass., talks about making the most of your resources, changes in the digital age and crafting coverage that speaks to readers in Central Massachusetts. Esposito told us about how essential it is to use every piece of the carcass even before the [...]
Alec Klein, a Medill faculty member at Northwestern University, is an award-winning investigative business journalist and bestselling author.
He is a senior presenter at Reynolds Center workshops. For two decades, Klein worked as a newspaper reporter, most recently as an investigative business reporter at The Washington Post for the past eight years. He previously worked at The [...]
Dealing with disaster is an understatement for the staff of The Times-Picayune. Business editor Kim Quillen, who spends much of her time answering readers’ post-Katrina questions, fielding five questions from us a couple of years after the floods.
1. Two years after Hurricane Katrina, does that calamity have a lingering effect?
Katrina continues to shape our [...]
5 Questions with Laura Goldberg, business editor of the Houston Chronicle.
Goldberg talks about her target audience, the challenges of keeping up with technology and key topics her reporters are covering.
1. When you became business editor, did anything surprise you about the job?
There weren’t many big surprises. If anything, just the volume of e-mail pitches [...]
