These online tutorials are additional resources from the self-guided tutorial, “Using EMMA to Find Great Stories in Municipal Bonds.” Find out how to increase your local business coverage with municipal bonds data that’s free and accessible online at emma.msrb.org.
Robin J. Phillips, @RobinJP, from the Reynolds Center will host #ConnectChat today – Tuesday, March 13, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. EDT Phillips, digital director at the center, will field questions about social media for business journalists. Upcoming #ConnectChat: Social Media for Business Journalists | → → Here’s the RECAP of that #ConnectChat Among the topics Robin [...]
Pinterest is worth paying attention to even for business reporters outside of the tech beat, but scarce specifics can make localizing the hot social media trend a challenge. Over the past year, Pinterest has grown from a relatively unknown Palo Alto startup into one of the world’s top social media networks. More than 10 million [...]
Use this checklist when you’ve completed your story, but still have it on your computer screen. After completing checks 1-3, you’ll print out your story and use the printout to complete the rest of the checks. Here’s more on how this checklist was created. For a printable copy of this checklist with check boxes, click [...]
Only one-quarter of Americans say news outlets get the facts right, according to a survey last year by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. That’s a new low since 1985, when Pew first asked the question. Two-thirds say stories are often inaccurate, a new high. This gap is a troublesome one [...]
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 one-hour webinar, “Getting LinkedIn — Sourcing through Social Networking,” took place Feb. 28, 2012. | At the bottom of this page, you’ll find links to complete the self-guided training. Led by the Reynolds Center’s digital director, Robin J. Phillips, this free training gives you tips for getting started with LinkedIn and utilizing its large [...]
The two-day webinar, “How Not to be Bamboozled by Local Economic Studies,” took place Feb. 8-9, 2012. | At the bottom of this page, you’ll find links to complete the self-guided training. This free training gives you the tools and techniques to read economic studies with a critical eye. You’ll learn the sources used by [...]
On the eve of Valentine’s Day, a group of economists and others who heart the language of central banking are busy Tweeting love notes. The New York Times’ Binyamin Applebaum writes in a recent blog post that the hash tag #FedValentines is currently booming on Twitter. The buzz appears to have started with a tweet [...]
