Angelina Jolie and the genetic testing industry
Angelina Jolie's decision to have preemptive surgery prompted a health care buzz. From the billions made from genetic testing to the impact of local biomed companies, jump on these local biz angles.
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0Spring housing market: Finding stories in the business of rentals
Beats, Economy, Featured, Investing | Banking, Melissa Preddy, Real estate | Econ development, Story ideas
At this point in springtime, articles about residential real estate sales are logical and appreciated by readers. But about one-third of Americans don’t own, they rent, and they need information about the market they are competing in. So why not buck seasonal tradition with a spring report for tenants and landlords about how your region [...]
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Eenie meenie chili beanie: No news was big news for Buffett
Best Practices, Featured, Investing | Banking, Phillip Blanchard
Even with the addition of a hedge fund manager meant to inject additional skepticism into Berkshire Hathaway‘s annual meeting, Warren E. Buffett managed to escape making big news here on Saturday. (New York Times) Before facing questions from a crowd of more than 30,000, billionaire investor Warren Buffett got a rock star’s treatment Saturday when he was mobbed [...]
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10 Supreme Court cases business journalists should know
Basics, Beats, Featured, Research, Tools
Supreme Court deliberations can seem opaque and perplexing to reporters who haven’t had constitutional history classes, or spent time covering courts. But a basic understanding of how the court operates is a vital tool in a business journalist’s toolbox. Throughout its history, the Supreme Court has decided numerous cases that deal with business matters. In [...]
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Getting the Goods — Interviews that Work: Self-guided training
Best Practices, Self-guided training, Writing/SEO
The free, two-day webinar, “Getting the Goods – Interviews that Work,” was held May 8-9, 2013. Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski explores the core purposes, techniques and ethics of the interview process. She reveals different interview approaches that work best in different situations and that apply to any genre of journalism. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN [...]
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Crafting the narrative of an oil spill: A Pulitzer winner’s process
Basics, Best Practices, Energy | Utilities | Mining, Featured, Investigation, Rosland Gammon
Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer won a Pulitzer Prize this year for their InsideClimate News series “The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of,” which looked the impact of a diluted bitumen or “dilbit” spill in Michigan. Elizabeth says she discovered the spill while looking at energy and environmental [...]
