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Magazine Watch: Fortune Magazine Spotlights Murdoch's Move into Financial News
Fortune writer Tom Arango examines the populist approach taken by Fox Business News and whether it will find its footing in a competitive duel with CNBC, reports Magazine Watch blogger Jennifer Hopfinger.
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Roush Rant: Creating a No-Spin Zone
Business reporters too often fall for corporate P.R. as legitimate news, especially if it is delivered as an exclusive, says BusinessJournalism.org blogger Chris Roush.
By Chris Roush

Reynolds Center News: FedEx sponsorship of Commercial Appeal Stories Raises a Storm
Sponsored sections and columns in newspapers continue to garner attention and money, but not the type of positive reaction that publishers and advertisers originally intended.
By Kanupriya Vashisht

Five Questions with...: Five Questions With...Patrick Scott
Patrick Scott, business editor of the The Charlotte Observer, discusses trends affecting the paper’s business section, which is noted for its public service and investigative stories.
By Kanupriya Vashisht

Magazine Watch: Is Real Estate Market Set to Recover?
A Business 2.0 cover story speculates on whether the real estate cycle has turned the corner and is ready to head north. It tests the theory by looking at cities where prices are inching up again. BusinessJournalism.org blogger Jennifer Hopfinger reports.
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Dick's Picks: Business Profiles with Passion and Personality
Reporters from The Sun of Baltimore, The Press of Atlantic City and The Charlotte Observer provide three great lessons on how to bring passion and personality to a business profile.
By Dick Weiss

Covering Business: Getting Your Brand Out
Once content to remain faceless behind their bylines, some print reporters are looking to brand themselves as a way to build readership, loyalty and value. Some call it taking a page out of the radio and television journalists' playbook. BusinessJournalism.org's Annalyn Censky explores.
By Annalyn Censky

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with...Doug Smith
Tampa's FOX 13 investigative reporter Doug Smith talks about uncovering corruption, fraud and government waste for local television.
By Kanupriya Vashisht

Roush Rant: Dear Rupert Murdoch....
BusinessJournalism.org blogger Chris Roush offers up his thoughts on coverage areas Rupert Murdoch’s new Fox Business Network could zero in on to distinguish itself from the pack. For that matter so could CNBC.
By Chris Roush

Reynolds Center News: Winning Barlett & Steele Entries
Here are the URL addresses to the full stories for the winning entries and honorable mention recipients of the inaugural Barlett & Steele Investigative Business Journalism awards.
By Reynolds Center Staff

Reynolds Center News: Barlett & Steele Judges
Here are the biographies for the three judges in the inaugural Barlett & Steele Investigative Business Journalism Awards.
By Reynolds Center Staff

Reynolds Center News: Winners Announced for Inaugural Barlett & Steele Awards
A reporting duo from The New York TImes captured the top honor in the inaugural Barlett & Steele Investigative Business Journalism awards with stories on China's role in exporting a counterfeit drug ingredient that resulted in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of consumer deaths in Latin America.
By Reynolds Center Staff

Reynolds Center News: Former Forbes Editor Shunned Boosterism
James W. Michaels served as Forbes magazine editor for 37 years.
By Reynolds Center Staff

Magazine Watch: White-Collar Workers Seek Overtime, Too
Federal wage-and-hour lawsuits have more than doubled since 2001 and many of the filers are white-collar workers who previously shunned tracking hours, finds a BusinessWeek article highlighted by BusinessJournalism.org blogger Jennifer Hopfinger.
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Covering Business: Small Staff, Grand Feats
Long-term projects prove daunting even for well-resourced newspapers. In the current environment, newspapers are juggling even more to produce quality journalism. Here's a few that found a way to get it done.
By Sara Murray

Dick's Picks: Tales Well Told Carry the Day
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Diane Mastrull chronicles an heir's effort to put apartment buildings on his storied 44-acre estate while The Kansas City Star takes a critical but entertaining look at Sprint Nextel's $5 billion dollar wireless gamble. And the Tribune's Richard Mullins takes you high in the sky with the people who perform one of the most lethal jobs in America.
By Dick Weiss

Roush Rant: New Ventures Need Depth to Gain This Reader's Time
Fox Business Network, Conde Nast Portfolio and WSJ's Pursuits magazine among the new entries. Just which one will have a leg up in gaining blogger Chris Roush's precious time and loyalty depends on which provides more in-depth, high-impact, quality journalism.
By Chris Roush

Magazine Watch: Activist Joins Forces with Wal-Mart to Push Environmental Change
Activist Adam Werbach teams up with Wal-Mart to change its environmental image.
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Business Design: Designing Business Pages in the Visual Age
Illustrations that lunge for the throat, white space used without guilt, and headlines on steroids are modus operandi for many of today's more attractive Business sections, says BusinessJournalism.org contributor Curt Hazlett.
By Curt Hazlett

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with...Chris Warden
Chris Warden, a professor at Troy University in Alabama and alum of the 2007 Reynolds Center Business Journalism Professors Seminar, speaks to Managing Editor Kevin Sweeney about the program.
By Kevin Sweeney

Covering Business: Covering Fashion: Tips From WSJ's Teri Agins
Teri Agins is a senior special writer at The Wall Street Journal’s New York bureau, where she covers the fashion and the retail industry. She is also the author of “The End of Fashion: The Mass Marketing of the...
By Annalyn Censky

Under the Magnifying Glass: Footnoted.org Turns Four, Making it a Blogosphere Dinosaur
As a freelancer who works from home, blogging has enabled me to be part of a larger community of smart like-minded people, many of whom have given me lots of excellent (and free) advice over the years, says blogger Michelle Leder.
By Michelle Leder

Covering Business: Following the runway -- and money
Catwalks and couture are just the tip of the iceberg for enterprising business reporters. The $172 billion a year apparel industry makes high fashion coverage a mainstay for the nation's top newspapers. Annalyn Censky reports.
By Annalyn Censky

Dick's Picks: The Orange County Register Scores with Subprime Piece
The Orange County Register scores with a compelling look at how subprime lending ruined a neighborhood and the financial future of the families within it.
By Dick Weiss

From our Editors: Making the Case for Enterprise
Creditability, a track record and well-thought and researched story pitches are key to getting your editors support to pursue in-depth enterprise projects.
By Jonathan Higuera

Covering Business: Quick Insurance Resources
Randy Diamond of the Palm Beach Post offers a quick guide to resources and contacts for business reporters covering the insurance industry.
By Randy Diamond

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with...Kathleen Johnston
CNN Producer Kathleen Johnston talks to Associate Editor Kanu Vashisht about her in-depth investigative story on auto insurance fraud and her approach to investigative reporting.
By Kanupriya Vashisht

Covering Business: Finding Riches on the Insurance Beat
Covering health insurance and its effects on consumers is a given for business reporters today, but the same can't be said for auto, home, life and other necessary lines of insurance.
By Randy Diamond

Technology: iPhone Price Cut Surprises Media
Top technology reporters give their expert opinions on Steve Jobs' sudden generosity.
By Reynolds Center Staff

Reynolds Center News: Rising Above the Average Blog
Blogging may have become the new tool of interaction for newspapers, but it can also have a backlash for journalists. Uninteresting or irresponsible blogs can create a negative halo effect, impacting readership in print. Todd Bishop, blogger and reporter for Seattle Post-Intelligencer, offers insider tips on how to successfully straddle Online and print.
By Todd Bishop

Roush Rant: Critical Lending Coverage Needed During Boom
Reader complaints notwithstanding, the real estate crisis could have used harder hitting reporting during the boom times, rather than the Monday morning quarterbacking going on now, says BusinessJournalism.org blogger Chris Roush.
By Chris Roush

Magazine Watch: "King of Bling" Makes Forbes Cover
There aren't too many occupations more glamorous than diamond merchant -- especially when you're a billionaire purveyor of the gems. Forbes magazine profiles one such man.
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Covering Business: Guide to Gas Prices Leads to Smooth Business Reporting Path
Nearly every business reporter has to write a gas price story at least once. Here's a guide to sources that can help increase the depth of the story and spice it up a little too.
By Sara Murray

Covering Business: Another Business Section Shrinks
The Winston-Salem Journal joins a growing list of daily newspapers seeking to save newsprint costs by reducing the size of its freestanding Business section and moving it inside another section.
By Jonathan Higuera

Dick's Picks: Reporter Lays Publication to Rest in Effective Prose
The World News' final edition hits the newsstands Aug. 27, but not without a proper business obituary -- a delightful piece by Peter Carlson of The Washington Post.
By Dick Weiss

From our Editors: Cover Local Aspects of the Housing Crisis
The mortgage lending meltdown and housing crisis certainly amped up real estate coverage this summer whether you file for print or electronic media.
By Jonathan Higuera

Stock Market: Reporters Add Perspective to Stock Market Fluctuations
Just as quickly as the champagne corks popped to celebrate the Dow Jones Industrial Average close above the 14,000 mark, the buzz quickly fizzled out with one-day plunges and considerable economic concerns.
By Kevin Sweeney

Reynolds Center News: Tribune Sale Gets Shareholder OK
The deal still must overcome financing obstacles before proposed new owners can execute their plan to take it private. Deteriorating company performance and debt obligations have created some Wall Street skepticism that the buyout will occur.
By Reynolds Center Staff

Roush Rant: Finding Ways to Beat Summer Doldrums
Getting out of the office is one strategy to make your stories go from good to great.
By Chris Roush

Awards & Scholarships: Immigration Series Articles Earn Recognition
A pair of articles written for the Reynolds Center's Immigration series have received accolades from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
By Reynolds Center Staff

Under the Magnifying Glass: Sarbanes-Oxley Disclosures Serve as a Boon for Business Journalists
All of the new disclosures related to Sarbanes-Oxley have not only led to better business reporting, they've also helped create more efficient capital markets.
By Michelle Leder

Magazine Watch: The Economy Goes to the Dogs
Americans now spend $41 billion a year on their pets -- double the amount spent a decade ago, according to BusinessWeek's August 6th cover story.
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Roush Rant: News Corp. Deal with Dow Jones Got Too Much Ink
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion agreement to acquire Dow Jones & Co. signals a glaring problem with business journalism today.
By Chris Roush

Reynolds Center News: Bancrofts Approve Bid for Dow Jones
Dow Jones & Co., along with its flagship publication The Wall Street Journal, will become the property of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., several major newspapers reported Tuesday. The papers, including the Journal and The New York Times, said more than...
By Reynolds Center Staff

Dick's Picks: Without Question, These Business Stories Hit the Mark
Good stories don't have to start with a question. But they should raise questions that propel readers into your piece.
By Dick Weiss

Research: Most Newspapers Now Devote Less Than a Page to Stock Tables, Study Finds
Two-thirds of the nation's 1,400 daily newspapers still print stock market tables in some form, but virtually none offers a complete listing of stock market results, according to a study released today by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University.
By Reynolds Center Staff

Reynolds Center News: Covering Stock Decline Requires Cool Head
The stock market plunge on Wall Street and in world markets last week made investors panicky, but journalists must keep a cool head in reporting the story, say two veteran journalists who follow the market.
By Kanupriya Vashisht

Roush Rant: Time Has Arrived to Step Up Non-Profit Coverage
Now is the time for all business desks to think about improving their non-profit coverage. Non-profits have six months after the end of their fiscal year to file the Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service.
By Chris Roush

Dick's Picks: Home and Business Ownership Stories Offer Compelling Tales
My picks feature two stories that play into the interest in we have in our homes as an investment and a repository for our dreams. My top pick is the story of an independent pharmacy struggling to make it in a world dominated by chains and mail-order prescription drug firms.
By Dick Weiss

Reynolds Center News: Reynolds Center Accepts Applications for Business Journalism Professors Seminar
A nationwide training initiative designed to improve and encourage the quality of business journalism training at the university level enters its second year at the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University.
By Reynolds Center Staff

Reynolds Center News: New channel launch set for Oct. 15
By Annalyn Censky July 12, 2007 News Corporation, which is currently locked in negotiations to acquire Dow Jones & Co., will launch its new business cable channel, the FOX Business Network, on Oct. 15, the company announced July 11. The...
By Annalyn Censky

Reynolds Center News: 2007 Reynolds Center Internship Testimonials and Highlighted Stories
RACHEL HATZIPANAGOS -- THE OREGONIAN Gizmos make iPhone 'my phone' Shoppers' desire to be different propels a thriving market for cell phone accessories By Rachel Hatzipanagos The Oregonian Staff Featured Article "The internship has been helpful in allowing me to...
By Reynolds Center Staff

Dick's Picks: Business Reporters Hit the Right Keys
Good newspapers and their staffs know how to play all the keys. Dick Weiss cues up three business stories that hit the right notes in coverage and narration.
By Dick Weiss

Roush Rant: Newsroom Reorganizations Provide Business Education Opportunity
I hope that the business reporters and editors take reorganization as an opportunity to educate their brethren who have never written about finance.
By Chris Roush

Awards & Scholarships: Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced
WSJ's piece on the corporate practice of backdating stock options takes top prize among large newspapers.
By Sara Murray

Covering Business: Product Launch Stories Test Skills
With the media hype surrounding Apple's launch of the iPhone growing, reporters offer tips on keeping coverage from spinning out of control.
By Sara Murray

The Economy: It's the Economy, Readers
Figuring out how to cover the economy in a way that connects with readers can take reporters in many directions. Here's how a few have drilled down to make sense of a broad topic.
By Jonathan Higuera

Covering Business: Wise Beyond Their Years
Some young business reporters prove age is not a factor when it comes to accurate and insightful reporting. Major business sections are taking notice and hiring from a more talented pool of applicants than in years past.
By Annalyn Censky

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with...Lisa Gibbs
Lisa Gibbs, business editor of The Miami Herald talks to Associate Editor Kanu Vashisht about how the small business coverage has become a major focus for The Herald's business section.
By Kanupriya Vashisht

Covering Business: Blue Sky Thinking on WSJ's Possible Owners
If The Wall Street Journal is a national journalistic treasure, who should be charged with safeguarding it? Some media experts and analysts share their thoughts with Sara Murray of BusinessJournalism.org.
By Sara Murray

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with...Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks, deputy managing editor of the Money section for USA Today tells Kanu Vashisht about the unique challenges and opportunities associated with reporting business news to a national audience.
By Kanupriya Vashisht

Covering Business: Several Papers Lose Business Section Fronts
Management decisions to combine the business section with others have been made at several newspapers. Business editors across the nation are taking notice and defending the importance of their section fronts.
By Kevin Sweeney

Roush Rant: Some Aspects of Business Journalism Need Improvement
I like a lot of what I see in business journalism. But there are many things that I don't like as well. Here are some of the things that bother me in the world of business journalism.
By Chris Roush

Covering Business: Keys to Unlock Success in PR Relationships
As long as reporters need to go through corporate public relations or media relations staff to get information or set up interviews, they should know how to get the most out of the exchange.
By Sara Murray

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with...Kim Quillen
Kim Quillen, business editor of The Times-Picayune, tells Associate Editor Kanupriya Vashisht where her business section stands nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.
By Kanupriya Vashisht

Under the Magnifying Glass: Details on Executive Comp Lead to Confusion
Now that proxy season is essentially over and the deadline associated with crunching executive pay numbers with it, it's time to go back and assess just how well reporters did with getting the numbers right.
By Michelle Leder

Stock Market: Place Stock in Company Trading Policies
The mergers and acquisition mania affecting media companies left me wondering how journalists who own company stock can benefit or avoid losses in a way that doesn't violate ethical standards.
By Jonathan Higuera

Dick's Picks: Abuse of Trust Stories Connect with Readers
This edition of Dick's Picks highlights two stories out of Florida and one from New York that have a single element in common -- abuse of trust.
By Dick Weiss

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with....Charles Crumpley
Charles Crumpley, editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal and former business editor of The Times-Picayune, relays some lessons and advice from his distinguished career to Kanupriya Vashisht.
By Charles Crumpley

Immigration Series: Debate Rages over Employment Visa Program
As major high-tech employers urge Congress to allow them to hire more highly skilled foreign workers, others question why.
By Debjani Chakravarty

Immigration Series: Anti-Immigration Policies Could Affect Labor Force, Consumer Prices
If hardcore anti-immigrant proponents have their way, the U.S. labor force could look very different – and so could consumer prices and services.
By Kelley Emeneker

Immigration Series: Financial Pitfalls Trap Undocumented Immigrants
A guardian angel helps others avoid credit card debt and high-interest mortgages -- and file tax returns.
By Kenny Quihuis

Immigration Series: Small Businesses Argue for Federal Guest-Worker Program
Small business owners who rely on immigrant labor see the need for a federal guest-worker program, but their support hinges on the details
By Keridwen Cornelius

Immigration Series: Immigrant Self-Employment Outpaces U.S.-born Rate
Immigrants are more likely to start their own businesses than U.S.-born residents. For many, it's a matter of survival.
By Ashley McCausland Biggers

Immigration Series: Human Capital Equation Doesn't Add up for Some Immigrants
Foreign professionals often end up in jobs other than what they have been trained for in their home countries.
By Lorena Salido Alvarez

Immigration Series: A Visa Overstayer's Journey Illustrates Migration Saga
Visa overstayers represent nearly half of all undocumented immigrants. The journey to the U.S. for one was a modern saga of global migration.
By Sally Filler

Immigration Series: Many Undocumented Immigrants Pay High Price for Freedom
Undocumented immigrants pay taxes with hopes of gaining citizenship.
By Jake Geller

Covering Business: Become an Inventor of Fresh Language: Avoid Cliches
These days, cliches seem to be creeping in everywhere -- including the business sections of otherwise excellent newspapers.
By Curt Hazlett

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with...Josh Mills
Josh Mills of Baruch College discusses business of sports coverage and training at the university level to Associate Web Editor Kanupriya Vashisht.
By Kanupriya Vashisht

From our Editors: Strength in Numbers: Business Sections Gain More Female Readers
Although some business editors say they are not targeting women readers in particular, research suggests that the playing field for gender demographics among business readers is leveling out, Reynolds Center intern Annalyn Censky reports.
By Annalyn Censky

Roush Rant: Magazine Should Stick to Business Journalism Basics
The debut of the new business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio means many good things for the business journalism field. But I have a problem with what I read from the first issue.
By Chris Roush

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with...Alec Klein
Associate Web Editor Kanupriya Vashisht speaks to Alec Klein of The Washington Post about realizing success in investigative business journalism.
By Kanupriya Vashisht

Reynolds Center News: Future of Business Sections Discussed at Anaheim Workshop
Business journalists address blogs, 'round-the-clock coverage and delivery platforms at Reynolds Center workshop in Anaheim.
By Reynolds Center Staff

Reynolds Center News: Sloan to Leave Newsweek
Newsweek's Sloan Set to Join FORTUNE
By Reynolds Center Staff

Dick's Picks: Business Stories Highlight "What's in it" for Their Readers
This edition of Dick's Picks highlights stories to which readers can readily relate -- but in different ways.
By Dick Weiss

Personal Finance: Become an Expert in Personal Finance Coverage
The problem with personal finance is that it's everything. So the big challenge is to either zero in on a handful of topics that you can learn well enough to become a true expert -- or find a way to be a jack-of-all-trades, and still be an expert.
By Kathy Kristof

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with...Jessi Hempel
Associate Web Editor Kanupriya Vashisht speaks to Jessi Hempel of BusinessWeek about the innovation in business journalism.
By Kanupriya Vashisht

Reynolds Center News: Reynolds Provides Training for Journalists of Color
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will offer business journalism training sessions this summer at the conventions of Native American, Hispanic, Asian and South Asian journalists.
By Reynolds Center Staff

From our Editors: Thomson-Reuters Deal Would Create Financial News Juggernaut
As news of Thomson Corporation's $17.6 billion offer for Reuters broke, reporters from the United States to Canada to Great Britain found themselves at the center of yet another potential mega media merger.
By Kevin Sweeney

Roush Rant: "Brought to you by..."
The Philadelphia Inquirer's decision to couple space paid for by advertisers with independently gathered news threatens the integrity of newspapers, laments Chris Roush.
By Chris Roush

Investigative: Get a Firm Grip on Campaign Finance Coverage
There's an excitement to covering political campaigns and, for me, the most interesting part of the campaigning is what goes on behind the scenes: The raising and spending of billions of dollars in ways that have a tremendous impact on the outcome of an election.
By Leslie Wayne

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with... Paul O'Donnell
Associate Web Editor Kanupriya Vashisht speaks to Paul O'Donnell, business editor of The Plain Dealer, about some of the emerging trends and growing challenges in business reporting.
By Kanupriya Vashisht

Reynolds Center News: Fear and Loathing at the WSJ
The $5 billion Rupert Murdoch bid to acquire Dow Jones has dailies quoting lots of unnamed Journal sources.
By Jonathan Higuera

Five Questions with...: Five Questions with....
Kanupriya Vashisht, associate Web editor for BusinessJournalism.org, puts a prominent business journalist or editor on the spot each week with five pressing questions. Vashisht recently received her master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Cronkite School at...
By ksweeney

Ethics: Inquirer's Ad-sponsored Column Debuts to Mixed Reviews
Is it a serious breach of the traditional firewall between editorial and advertising or a legitimate new era strategy to pursue ad revenue and keep the paper functioning?
By Jonathan Higuera

Minority Business: Minority Coverage Reflects Changing World
The minority business beat is ready to be harvested for stories that shed light on the top demographic, globalization, marketing, and political trends in the U.S.
By Dianne Solis

Research: Research Study on Business Journalism Blogging Released by Reynolds Center
Three-fourths of the nation's largest newspapers now offer blogs on business-related topics, according to a study released today by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University
By Reynolds Center Staff

Research: Business News Web Logs: Content Analysis and Survey
BUSINESS NEWS WEB LOGS: CONTENT ANALYSIS AND SURVEY January-February 2007 Research Summary Commissioned by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism www.BusinessJournalism.org CONTENT ANALYSIS SAMPLE SIZE: Researchers analyzed a random sample from the nation's 1,400 daily newspapers in...
By Reynolds Center Staff

Dick's Picks: Business Sections Repeat Past Success
With this edition, Dick's Picks marks its first anniversary spotlighting the best business stories around the nation. Having scanned the nation's newspapers and Web sites for many months, you begin to notice that some just seem to do it better week in and week out than others.
By Dick Weiss

Magazine Watch: Radical Transparency: A New Corporate Strategy
In growing numbers, CEOs are telling the whole story about the success and failures of their businesses in a "radical transparency" trend sweeping through boardrooms, contributing writer Jennifer Hopfinger reports.
By Jennifer Hopfinger

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