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Roush Rant: Committing to Coverage
By Chris Roush October 8, 2008 The Wichita Eagle’s business editor Dan Loving and the paper’s editor, Sherry Chisenhall, are countering what’s going on in the rest of business journalism. They’re either crazy, or brilliant. I’d lean toward the latter....
By Chris Roush

On the Beat: The Dow's Shaky Day
As the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped below 10,000 points, a first since 2004, media organizations around the globe scrambled to cover the wide range of breaking news. But as they worked to get every detail, reporters also kept the...
By Travis Grabow and Carol Legg

On the Beat: From the Bottom Up
As business reporters, we’re trained to go right to the top. Get an interview with the CEO. If a company is in crisis, see if outside board members (the CEO’s bosses) will talk. And for all stories, we want to...
By Jeff Bailey

Workshop Details: 2009 Strictly Financials Seminar, Schedule
Strictly Financials Seminar January 6-9, 2009 Tentative Schedule Tuesday 8:30am            Andrew Leckey Welcome/Video 9:00am            Diana Henriques, The New York Times, “Business Journalist as Investigator” 10:30am          Jimmy Gentry, “Understanding Markets” Noon                Box lunch & Chat Diana Henriques...
By Reynolds Center Staff

Workshop Details: 2009 Professors Seminar, Schedule
Business Journalism Professors Seminar January 6-9, 2009 Tentative Schedule Tuesday 8:30am            Director Andrew Leckey, Welcome/Video 9:00am            Diana Henriques, The New York Times, “Today’s Business Journalist as Investigator” 10:30am          Chris Roush, UNC “Deciding What to Teach” Noon                Box Lunch...
By Reynolds Center Staff

Magazine Watch: The Business Side of Sleep
We read about it all the time: most people don’t get enough sleep. But the September issue of Fortune Small Business makes an argument for proper rest that goes beyond the usual litany of health problems caused by sleep deprivation....
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Columnists: Fair Checking
By Alec Klein September 26, 2008 What does “fair” mean? According to Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary, the first definition is, “pleasing to the eye or mind especially because of fresh, charming, or flawless quality.” Not quite what I had in...
By Alec Klein

Dick's Picks: Economic Perspective
By Dick Weiss September 25, 2008 We live in tough economic times. But it’s always useful to provide balance by highlighting the constructive measures people are taking to cope. The stories presented here from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Sacramento Bee...
By Dick Weiss

Columnists: Putting Ideas in Order
By Kelly Carr September 23, 2008 The crisis on Wall Street has offered endless story possibilities, ideas that are as fast paced as the news itself. From major national and international news angles to important local stories detailing consumers’...
By Kelly Carr

Covering Business: Covering Values is Not Where Business Journalism Excels
Robert J. Samuelson on Newsweek.com says Wall Street is kaput.  He says it has been done in by greed.  Amen, Amen, Amen. The obituaries on the American economic system can be found all over the Web, but I thought Samuelson's...
By Tim McGuire

Roush Rant: A New Model
By Chris RoushSeptember 22, 2008 Business news should be the first to revolt against the traditional news business model. I’m talking about the hundreds of newspapers, magazines and other media that give away content for free on the Internet, even...
By Chris Roush

Reporter's Notebook: Preaching Financial Fitness
By Kelly Carr September 22, 2008 At a recent family gathering, Gregory Karp and his father-in-law wondered if using rechargeable batteries actually saves money. The pair wasn’t sure, but Karp was ready to investigate. He talked to experts and...
By Kelly Carr

Covering Business: Wall Street in Crisis: Coverage Highlights
As Sunday’s Wall Street developments rolled into Monday’s market missteps, online coverage of the demise of Lehman Brothers, the sale of Merrill Lynch and the desperation of AIG continued to showcase business bloggers and innovative uses of multimedia. Here, we...
By Anita Malik, Travis Grabow and Carol Legg

Business Design: WSJ.com's New Look
In the midst of some of the year’s biggest financial news, The Wall Street Journal is unveiling a new online look complete with today’s competitive standard: social networking. Launched today, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network redesign offers a more...
By Anita Malik, Travis Grabow and Carol Legg

Covering Business: Covering a Crisis on Wall Street
One headline painted Sunday as a "momentous" day for Wall Street; another called it "frantic." Either way, coverage of Sunday's striking developments in the U.S. financial system was fast-paced and breaking. By late Sunday The Wall Street Journal was reporting...
By Anita Malik

The Business Weekly: The Editorial Calendar
By Henry Dubroff September 17, 2008 The editorial calendar drives every successful business journal. At its best, the calendar represents a unique way to deliver richer content about local business, build networks of business professionals and have plenty of space...
By Henry Dubroff

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with Greg Ip
September 12, 2008 By Amy Eagleburger For Greg Ip, economics has always been a part of his life. His mother was an economist and as soon as he left college, Ip began to carve out his own career as a...
By Amy Eagleburger

Roush Rant: A Destructive Trend
By Chris RoushSeptember 10, 2008 Technology is conspiring to maim the reputation of business journalism. First, Bloomberg News accidentally posted the obituary of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The story had been updated by the staff and not intended for publication,...
By Chris Roush

Covering Business: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac: What's Next?
After a major story breaks and media outlets have logged long hours to capture every bit of available information for readers, reporters can take a moment to breathe. It’s in that period, as the dust settles in the weeks and...
By Kelly Carr and Carol Legg

Magazine Watch: Most Powerful Women
Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” in the September 15th issue couldn’t be a more fitting feature this year. And its appearance couldn’t come at a more fitting time -- given the recent breakthroughs of...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Covering Business: Intern Spotlight: Sonia Narang
Sonia Narang just graduated from the master’s program at University of California Berkeley in May and already she’s built herself an impressive journalism resume. She worked at Forbes and PBS’s Frontline while in college and this summer Narang was one...
By Kelly Carr

Covering Business: Covering the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Takeover
The coverage by most media on the government bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is massive, as it should be. This takeover is one of the biggest business stories of the decade. From analyzing the stock market’s response to...
By Kelly Carr, Travis Grabow and Carol Legg

Columnists: To Inform the Voters
By Andre Jackson September 2, 2008 Blah, blah, blah! To much of the American public, that’s what presidential campaigns usually sound like.  But this year, what’s livened things up is something that’s not very lively at all right now...
By Andre Jackson

Magazine Watch: Behind a Wireless Magnate
Forbes magazine features a fascinating profile in its August 11th cover story, “A Tyrant’s Worst Nightmare.” Writer Bernard Condon tells the interesting tale of Denis O’Brien--“a wireless magnate who brings capitalism to the world’s poorest and most violent countries.”...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Covering Business: Intern Spotlight: Steven Overly
This summer Steven Overly, a journalism student from the University of Maryland, spent his days as an intern inside the newsroom at Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer. From his first day on the job, he was up for the challenge, tackling...
By Kelly Carr

Dick's Picks: Complete Coverage
By Dick Weiss August 29, 2008 Good newspapers provide their readers with perspective like no other media. They take a look back and they look to the future. We provide three stories that do one, the other or both from...
By Dick Weiss

Covering Business: Business Journalists at the Convention
A stroll through five — count them five — media tents around Denver’s Pepsi Center at the Democratic National Convention offers an interesting look at business journalism. The largest portion of one air-conditioned tent is occupied by The Wall Street...
By Henry Dubroff

Covering Business: Editor Spotlight: Kathy Tulumello

By Ashley Macha

Columnists: Off the Record and On Background
By Alec Klein August 26, 2008 In the middle of a major business investigation for The Washington Post, I sought an interview with a once-powerful world leader who shall remain anonymous for reasons that will become immediately evident. One...
By Alec Klein

From our Editors: Show & Tell
Volatile gas prices, which were at one period recently severely elevated, have had a direct impact on paper prices. The connection makes sense. But as a reader, don’t you want more information? As a former magazine publisher, I still...
By Anita Malik

Under the Magnifying Glass: Super-Charged 13Fs
By Michelle Leder August 22, 2008When it comes to SEC filings, it’s pretty easy to get overwhelmed with just the basics: 10Ks, 10Qs and proxy statements. Even if you cover 10 companies (and when I was at one daily, I...
By Michelle Leder

Roush Rant: Coveted Skills
By Chris RoushAugust 22, 2008Stephen Pounds, a longtime business journalist who left The Palm Beach Post business desk last week via a buyout offer, told me he had an interview recently with a recruiter for a large, national bank. “Think...
By Chris Roush

Columns: Embracing a Web World
It's been an interesting time to start a journalism career. Members of the old guard and young reporters like myself watch with bewilderment as good writers are offered buyouts and papers shrink smaller and smaller to save money on printing...
By Amy Eagleburger

Dick's Picks: Unique Economics Stories
By Dick Weiss August 15, 2008 We head southeast and southwest for some interesting pieces that take on our preconceptions about the nation's economy. In the spotlight are stories from Tucson's Arizona Daily Star, Phoenix's The Arizona Republic and over...
By Dick Weiss

Covering Business: Video: Readers Talk Business Coverage
Across the county, newspaper business sections are rapidly transforming in an effort to please readers and keep up with new media demands. Our Amy Eagleburger set out to ask readers what they think about the changes, the type of business...
By Amy Eagleburger

The Business Weekly: A Week in the Life...
By Henry Dubroff August 13, 2008 For reporters and editors alike, working at a weekly business journal offers regular hours and a steady rhythm for producing a comprehensive news report. There are none of the long Fridays that are the...
By Henry Dubroff

Under the Magnifying Glass: Versatile Skills Needed
By Michelle Leder August 11, 2008On Aug. 18, footnoted.org will mark its fifth anniversary, which seems as good a time as any to take stock. A lot has changed since I first launched the site in August 2003 to mark...
By Michelle Leder

On the Beat: Covering Food Safety Scares
High-profile food safety stories, from tomatoes to jalapenos, have consistently grabbed headlines in both newspapers and online. Much of the coverage focuses on poisoning dangers, highlighting individuals who have died from diseases like salmonella or E. coli. But food poisonings...
By Ashley Macha

Columnists: Sourcing from Scratch
By Kelly Carr August 8, 2008 Beginning a new assignment, a fresh beat filled with endless story possibilities, can be exhilarating. But it also means facing an empty rolodex. Gone is the public relations officer who would grab an...
By Kelly Carr

Roush Rant: Quoting Message Boards
By Chris RoushAugust 6, 2008 Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran a story that questioned whether presidential candidate Barack Obama was losing votes because he’s perceived as being too skinny. This week, the Journal ran an “amplification” to the...
By Chris Roush

Health Care: Covering Dollars and Doctors
By Ashley Macha Health care in the United States is a broad and often complicated topic that holds a high-interest for the public and makes for an interesting and necessary business story. With the amount of money spent on...
By Ashley Macha

Columnists: Know Your Customer
By Andre Jackson August 4, 2008 Hello. Thanks for stopping by and reading this, my debut column on BusinessJournalism.org. A J-school professor in my past enthusiastically supported the use of anecdotal tops to draw in readers, so here goes....
By Andre Jackson

Columnists: Open Secrets and No Surprises
By Alec Klein July 31, 2008 Here's an open secret about investigative reporting, and investigative business reporting in particular: Some reporters read their stories—verbatim—to their subjects before publication. Some even show sources printouts of their drafts. I know this...
By Alec Klein

Dick's Picks: Agriculture Coverage
By Dick Weiss July 31, 2008 For this edition, we focus on agriculture --from wheat to cherries to chickens. Three reporters from newspapers in the West and Midwest have taken very different approaches to their stories. But what they have...
By Dick Weiss

Reynolds Center News: 2008 Barlett & Steele Judges
LAURIE HAYS Laurie Hays joins Bloomberg LP as Executive Editor for company news starting Aug. 4, 2008, focusing on developing in depth reporting for dozens of industries covered by beat reporters in 135 bureaus at the news service. Prior to...
By Reynolds Center Staff

Reynolds Center News: Minority and Private Businesses Rate Media Coverage
Eighty-eight percent of minority and independent business owners who have been interviewed by the media say the story that resulted was fair and accurate. However, 83 percent of respondents said reporters must improve their understanding of business. These findings are...
By Reynolds Center Staff

Magazine Watch: Inflation Survival
Ah, summer. Weekend getaways. Backyard barbeques. Time to relax and enjoy. But that's harder to do this summer, as the cost of such simple pleasures take a much bigger bite out of your wallet. According to Money Magazine's July...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

How They Did It: The Economy in Pictures

By Amy Eagleburger

On the Beat: Second-Day Leads
A tried, if not true, vehicle for freshening up the news, the second-day lead -- topping the news with reaction, analysis or anything that can shed light on the original development -- is spreading across business pages even though readers...
By Jeff Bailey

Roush Rant: Disclosure is Best
By Chris RoushJuly 22, 2008 Two recent issues about the sources used by business journalists require a refresher for those who don't know proper etiquette in dealing with interviews. First, CNBC and other media were criticized for using a consultant...
By Chris Roush

On the Beat: Covering Small Businesses
The companies grabbing headlines in daily newspapers have a familiar ring to them – US Airways, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase. While noteworthy, they aren’t the only companies out there. About 99 percent of businesses in the United States are classified as...
By Amy Eagleburger

Dick's Picks: Writing for the Masses
By Dick Weiss July 16, 2008 Who says business news tends to be dry or aimed at a narrow audience? Three recent examples debunk that myth. Each takes a different approach to people’s lives in the workplace both as employers...
By Dick Weiss

The Business Weekly: Business Journals Rising
By Henry Dubroff When America’s steel industry collapsed in the 1980s, thousands of workers lost their jobs and landmark names faded into the sunset. But in the giants’ shadow, a new market opportunity was created. Mini-mills, smaller, energy-efficient niche producers...
By Henry Dubroff

Investigative: A Retrospective on Business Investigations
Flashback: The Internet hasn’t been invented yet. Google doesn’t exist. Reporters, looking to do research, refer to dog-eared newspaper clips in frayed yellow envelopes in a filing place called a morgue. Yes, this sounds antediluvian. No, this wasn’t before the...
By Alec Klein

Under the Magnifying Glass: Don't Blame the Bloggers
By Michelle Leder July 14, 2008Last week, just before everyone headed off for the July 4th holiday weekend, a young woman named Jessica DaSilva shook up the journalism community. She got lots of folks thinking about the future of journalism,...
By Michelle Leder

Minority Business: Lessons from Spanish-Language Media
In the early 1990s, daily newspapers in cities with significant Latino populations rolled out bilingual sections and inserts to appeal to Spanish-speaking readers.  The publications floundered and most bilingual sections are now a thing of the past. But in their...
By Amy Eagleburger

From our Editors: A Must Read
Sorting through piles of stories, books and presentations, my goal last week was to develop a sizeable amount of material on business journalism for our two summer interns. They needed information.  They needed the basics of business journalism: how to...
By Kelly Carr

Roush Rant: The Business of Bankruptcy
By Chris RoushJuly 8, 2008 Workers getting laid off. Homes being repossessed. Consumers struggling to pay higher gas and food prices. These are the headlines that dominate business sections of late. And it all adds up to one thing: Business...
By Chris Roush

Dick's Picks: Strength in Storytelling
By Dick Weiss July 2, 2008 I once had an editor who asked me if I could take a story and “write it onto page one.” I was flattered that he thought I could do such a thing. But frequently...
By Dick Weiss

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with Brian O'Connor
Brian O’Connor, personal finance editor and columnist at The Detroit News, talks with Ashley Macha about the challenges of mixing business and fun in his column, Money & Life. For his column, O’Connor incorporates the use of characters, based on...
By Ashley Macha

Roush Rant: Warning: Don't Slash Business Coverage
By Chris RoushJune 27, 2008 I’ve been feeling a bit like Alfred E. Newman lately, flashing my Cheshire cat smile and saying, “What, me worry?” while the rest of business journalism collapses around me. Let’s be honest. The situation in...
By Chris Roush

On the Beat: Playing into a Career Niche
When listeners tuned into Darren Rovell’s radio show, “the Sports Business Beat,” most had no idea he was still a junior at Northwestern University. He landed interviews with high-ranking sports business executives and covered the industry with the ease of...
By Kelly Carr

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with Rich Greifner
Rich Greifner is a senior analyst with The Motley Fool and writes about investing for the company’s Web site, motleyfool.com. One of his recent articles raised questions about whether or not a recession is always negative for the stock market....
By Amy Eagleburger

From our Editors: Web Views: Gasoline Graphics
I’ve spent the last few days tuning in to a local radio station at 9 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., hoping to hear my name. I listen not to win concert tickets, but instead, my hopes are pinned on...
By Anita Malik

Magazine Watch: Is Water the New Oil?
The cover of the June 23 issue of BusinessWeek asks a frightening question: “Is Water the New Oil?” As someone who grew up on the Michigan side of Lake Michigan and currently lives on the Illinois side and who...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

From our Editors: Symbolic Indictments?
It’s unlikely the indictments of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers represent a final saga in the ongoing subprime lending crisis. The pain is sure to continue for besieged homeowners, neighborhoods and local economies for quite some time. The...
By Jonathan Higuera

Under the Magnifying Glass: Don't Forget Director Pay
By Michelle Leder June 19, 2008When it comes to reviewing proxy statements for details on executive compensation, most business journalists tend to hone in with a laser-like focus on the CEO, often examining various aspects of the executive’s total compensation...
By Michelle Leder

On the Beat: Complete Gasoline Coverage
For business journalists, rising gasoline prices is now a daily story. But how often do the stories express more than just consumer ire? To really educate readers on the issues surrounding changing gasoline prices, reporters need to go beyond typical...
By Amy Eagleburger

On the Beat: Green on the Business Beat
Hot-topic issues such as climate change, high gas prices and greenhouse gas emissions have prompted many businesses to buy locally-sourced and organic products or recycle a bit more, consume a bit less. The way these green habits transcend into business...
By Ashley Macha

Roush Rant: Hooked on Kindle
By Chris RoushJune 17, 2008 I have seen the future of business journalism, and I can hold it in the palm of my hand. OK, maybe it’s a little big bigger than the palm of my hand, but it has...
By Chris Roush

From our Editors: Tracking the Business Behind the Tomato
E. Scott Reckard, a business writer for the Los Angeles Times, had already put in a full day of work on a recent Sunday when he got a call from an editor at the paper. The editor told him about...
By Jonathan Higuera

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with Bill Choyke
Bill Choyke has been the business editor of The Virginian-Pilot for more than five years. He recently spoke with Jonathan Higuera of BusinessJournalism.org about his approach to maintaining a vibrant business section during a time of industry change. 1. What...
By Jonathan Higuera

Dick's Picks: Finding the Economy's Silver Lining
By Dick Weiss June 13, 2008 The state of the economy may be bad news for many people but others are finding a silver lining. One business story cited here informs us that while we can expect higher bacon prices...
By Dick Weiss

Magazine Watch: Double Whammy: Oil and Housing
BusinessWeek magazine’s June 9th cover story, “Oil and the Economy,” offers a dire prediction to readers this month: “the double whammy of rising oil prices and plunging home prices could turn a mild recession into something more threatening.” Writer...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Roush Rant: Naming Business Sections
By Chris RoushJune 2, 2008 The Sacramento Bee’s decision to merge its business news section and its metro news section into a new section called “Our Region” got me to thinking about what business sections are called around the country....
By Chris Roush

Dick's Picks: Intelligent Perspectives
By Dick Weiss June 2, 2008 Explanatory journalism is one of the most valuable tasks those writing business news can practice. The public wants and needs to know how things came to such a state with a particular business or...
By Dick Weiss

From our Editors: Building the Business Curriculum
One lament I’ve had in my business writing career is that I never prepared for covering business news in college. I took all the newsgathering classes I could, but aside from one advertising class in the b-school, there were no...
By Jonathan Higuera

From our Editors: Learning the Lingo
The lingo, which seems like a complex encrypted code, hits your brain from all sides. Your head is spinning, suddenly your stomach is rumbling and before you know it, panic ensues. “Read the 10-K, the 10-Q, pay attention to...
By Kelly Carr

Magazine Watch: Recession Jumpstart
A recession is bad for business, right? Not necessarily, according to Inc. magazine’s May cover story. It may sound counterintuitive, but the magazine says a recession can be a good time to start a business. “Nobody loves a recession,”...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Roush Rant: The Changing Journal
By Chris Roush May 21, 2008 I’ve been willing to give the new owners of The Wall Street Journal the benefit of the doubt that they wouldn’t do anything to damage the best business journalism in the country, and arguably...
By Chris Roush

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with Rick Christie
Rick Christie, assistant managing editor for Business at The Palm Beach Post, talked with Jonathan Higuera about recent changes to the Business section and how the department spearheaded a major project last year on diabetes. That project recently won an...
By Jonathan Higuera

From our Editors: Driving the Issues
Much attention has been given to whether the business press is stoking the ambers of our economy’s meltdown. As a journalist, it’s easy to disregard those critics by citing the “blame the messenger” mentality. But before we quickly dismiss them,...
By Jonathan Higuera

From our Editors: Shoot the Story
Looking back I’m sure the e-mail said a lot of things, but I couldn’t seem to move past the first line, “Congratulations! You have been selected for video training.” Video training? This was confusing. I was a municipal government reporter...
By Kelly Carr

Under the Magnifying Glass: Disclosure Discovery is Difficult
By Michelle Leder May 13, 2008Whenever I do a presentation, I usually stress one key thing: companies are required to disclose all sorts of things in their routine SEC filings. But there’s nothing that requires them to make that information...
By Michelle Leder

Magazine Watch: A Focus on Fraud
Technology makes everyone’s life easier--even crooks. We all know individuals are at risk of identify theft, and as Fortune Small Business magazine reports in its May issue, businesses are also at risk of getting ripped off. The cover story “Who’s...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

From our Editors: Where's Workplace Coverage?
The commitment to covering workplace and labor issues has waned at many dailies. Only the largest national and regional papers have kept their workplace and labor reporters in place. And even then, most are asked to cover other beats as...
By Jonathan Higuera

Dick's Picks: Local Interest in a World Economy
By Dick Weiss May 8, 2008 Chances are most of your bylines come from the town where you work or occasionally from a neighboring state. Overseas trips are rare at all but the largest of our newspapers even as U.S....
By Dick Weiss

Roush Rant: Looking on the Bright Side
By Chris Roush May 5, 2008 There was a lot of discussion and hand wringing at the recent Society of American Business Editors and Writers annual conference about the future of business journalism. No less than Floyd Norris of The...
By Chris Roush

Book Reviews: Taking on the Trust
Famous muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell never considered herself a business reporter, and no one ever called her that. But her reporting and writing about the Standard Oil Co. more than 100 years ago provided the template for how thousands of...
By Chris Roush

Covering Business: Investing in an Internship
Like many young journalists, I was worried I might not find a job after graduation. Maybe I had absorbed some of the pessimism hanging over the industry. But I decided to stay positive, work hard and keep networking. That determination...
By Joseph Galante

Investigative: Business Investigations: When There Isn't Time
It’s a perennial question: How do reporters conduct an in-depth business investigation when they’re pressed for time? The question has invariably come up over the past several years when I’ve given talks at newspapers and universities around the country about...
By Alec Klein

Reporter's Notebook: Covering Autos in Audio
By Kelly Carr Dustin Dwyer knew it was going to be a long day. General Motors Corp. was scheduled to release their first-quarter earnings by 7 a.m. on Wednesday, and as an automotive reporter for Michigan Public Radio, this was...
By Kelly Carr

From our Editors: Widening the Focus on Foreclosures
Two years after the business press feasted on the escalating home prices storyline, the hottest housing story now is tracking foreclosure rates. It’s a testimony to the enduring principle that what goes up must come down, and for reporters, the...
By Jonathan Higuera

Investigative: Inspiring Investigative Projects
With the cutbacks and struggles in the newspaper industry, many reporters have watched investigative reporting decline in their newsrooms. They want to do in-depth work, but they are not sure how to in the current newspaper climate. But Walt Bogdanich,...
By Kelly Carr

Magazine Watch: Fortune's Buffett Compilation
In troubled economic times like these, who couldn’t use some sage advice from the Oracle of Omaha? In its April 28th issue, Fortune magazine delivers the comforting musings of Warren Buffett, the head of Berkshire Hathaway and the richest person...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Dick's Picks: Write Like an Insider
By Dick Weiss April 24, 2008 Normally, I like to feature stories from mid-size papers because I sense that’s where most of my readers work. But every so often, it’s hard to resist enterprisers from the big boys. This week...
By Dick Weiss

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with Scott Nishimura
Fort Worth Star-Telegram business editor Scott Nishimura talks to BusinessJournalism.org about his section’s latest initiatives and what resonates with readers. 1. What are the major coverage areas for business news at your publication? Airlines, energy, real estate, defense, tourism and...
By Jonathan Higuera

From our Editors: Web Views: Let them Comment
They’re knowledgeable and resourceful. They break news and stimulate dialogue. And according to the BIGresearch Simultaneous Media Survey, they make less than the general population but on average are better educated. No, I’m not describing reporters, though I very well...
By Anita Malik

Investigative: Investigations via the Internet
Before the Internet, Jim Steele and his partner Don Barlett traveled the country to track down documents for their investigative stories. Steele would board an airplane to grab bankruptcy records from courts in Kansas City or New York. If faxing...
By Kelly Carr

Covering Business: Shifting Targets
Newspapers stopped printing stock market tables, for the most part, a couple of years ago. But a heavy bias toward business news written for investors continues on many business pages, an approach that could be limiting, rather than expanding, reader...
By Jeff Bailey

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