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Dick's Picks: The Power of Details
By Dick Weiss May 20, 2009 Powerful personalities dominate our business culture and their stories make for compelling reading. Here are three examples from the Voice of San Diego, The Denver Post and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The common thread...
By Dick Weiss

Roush Rant: The New Skill Set
By Chris RoushMay 20, 2009 As we all know, the world of journalism – and business journalism – is changing before our eyes. What made money and attracted readers in the past no longer works. That means the people working...
By Chris Roush

Reynolds Center News: Looking for Freelance Work?
The Reynolds Center is expanding its network of freelance reporters for www.businessjournalism.org. Our freelancers should offer insightful tips for business coverage and ways business reporters can stay ahead of breaking news. We’re open to all forms of storytelling, from 800-word...
By Reynolds Center Staff

Reynolds Center News: Reynolds Center Seeks Web Managing Editor
Job description: Web Managing Editor   Scope of Search: Open to Public   Compensation: Competitive   Duties and responsibilities: The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is seeking a Managing Web Editor. The Managing Editor will be responsible...
By Reynolds Center Staff

Covering Business: The Business Treatment
My favorite government reporter in Chicago is a model for how business reporters could add value to the coverage of the public sector. Ben Joravsky, who works for the Chicago Reader, has carved out fabulous beat writing about Mayor Richard...
By Jeff Bailey

Covering Business: Uncovering Local Corruption
Fraud, it seems, is breaking out all over. While the mega-fraud of Bernard L. Madoff captures the headlines, smaller, but similar Ponzi schemes – mini-Madoffs – are now being uncovered by regulators across the country. Warren Buffett famously said that...
By Leslie Wayne

Covering Business: Writing for Radio
Each morning, when I come into work at 5 a.m., my eyes sting as I sip my coffee and aggressively prowl the Internet for that day's torrent of business stories. Often historic in tone, I usually think, “"I can't make...
By David Moskowitz

Roush Rant: A Fresh Approach
By Chris RoushMay 12, 2009 In the past two weeks, the world of business journalism saw magazine Conde Nast Portfolio close and lay off 80 reporters and editors. In the heart of Silicon Valley, two tech reporters from the San...
By Chris Roush

Columnists: Viability in a Web World
By Henry Dubroff May 7, 2009 In the Web 2.0 world, weekly business journals are still viable. A focus on local news helps make business journals resistant to the commoditization of national business and economic news. Journals rely on...
By Henry Dubroff

Columnists: Falling Short
By Alec Klein May 11, 2009 Their absence was all too noticeable. In the recently announced Pulitzer Prizes, not one went to a journalist who covered the still unfolding financial crisis, which just happened to be the biggest news...
By Alec Klein

Dick's Picks: Essential Reporting
By Dick Weiss May 5, 2009 At a time when media companies are laying off journalists in droves, we highlight three business stories that demonstrate why reporters are so essential to their communities. Well-trained, experienced reporters dig up stories that...
By Dick Weiss

Magazine Watch: Affluent Survival
Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying. And who better to poke fun at than the gazillionaires who contributed to the mess we’re in? The May 11th Forbes magazine cover story, “Survivor’s Guide for the Affluent,” isn’t entirely...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Columnists: Interpreting Indicators
By Andre Jackson May 1, 2009 Helping readers and viewers accurately take the economy’s temperature is a vital role for journalists as millions of people in the U.S. and around the world search for trustworthy signs that we’ve hit...
By Andre Jackson

Covering Business: Beyond the CEO
Most of us aren’t in a position to actually tout stocks or cheer on the market, so we don’t have to worry about being pilloried by John Stewart on The Daily Show, like Jim Kramer was. Yet still, aren’t business...
By Jeff Bailey

Roush Rant: The Pulitzer Lesson
By Chris RoushApril 24, 2009 There’s been a lot of hand wringing and grinding of teeth in the world of business journalism this past week in the wake of no stories or columns winning a Pulitzer Prize for writing about...
By Chris Roush

Magazine Watch: Fresh Financial Rules
Money magazine flips conventional wisdom on its head in the April issue cover story, “The 7 New Rules of Financial Security,” an enlightening article for investors and also for business journalists. It’s clear that reporters, too, need to question the...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Covering Business: When Cash is King
As more companies have fallen into dire financial straits in recent months, the old cliché, “cash is king,” seems to appear ever more frequently. And if cash is indeed king, that raises a series of questions. What is it? When...
By James Gentry

Dick's Picks: Independent Insight
By Dick Weiss April 13, 2009 Conventional wisdom can be the bane of business reporting just as much as in political reporting. But good reporters challenge the accepted wisdom. Here are three examples of deeper reporting from the MinnPost, the...
By Dick Weiss

Covering Business: A Dream Realized
Sara Murray had her sights set on The Wall Street Journal, so in her freshman year at the University of Maryland she drove to a job fair hoping to score an interview with a recruiter. Murray got her chance....
By Kelly Carr

Roush Rant: Journalists and Financial Advice
By Chris RoushApril 9, 2009 The whole Jim Cramer brouhaha has had me thinking about what business journalists should be telling their readers and viewers. If you haven’t been paying attention, “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer – and CNBC –...
By Chris Roush

Columnists: The Elements of Business Journal Style
By Henry Dubroff April 8, 2009 During the past 20 years, business journals have evolved from narrowly- focused legal or real estate publications to the mainstream of community-based financial news. That’s meant a constant evolution in the business journal’s...
By Henry Dubroff

Magazine Watch: The Housing Revival
“Signs of Life.” That’s what the latest cover of BusinessWeek says. Let’s hope it’s right. According the April 13th issue, housing sales are starting to stir again in some of the worst-hit areas in the country - the Gulf Coast...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Covering Business: Visualizing Economic Complexities
When The Washington Post folded its business section into the front of the newspaper last week, the very same day it unveiled an expansion of its online business page. That’s not a coincidence. It’s a sign of the times. News...
By W.J. Hennigan

Columnists: Making Sense of the Economy
By Andre Jackson April 1, 2009 You hear the question in news meetings, at the mall and even during Sunday sermons: When will the economy turn around? More importantly, when will we know that the economic ship of state...
By Andre Jackson

Dick's Picks: Focused Characters
By Dick Weiss March 30, 2009 Filmmakers, playwrights and operatic composers may present their storylines through an ensemble cast or by zeroing in on one main character. As business writers, we face a similar choice. A good case can be...
By Dick Weiss

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