Reuters seeking fuel market reporter

Reuters is looking for a full-time journalist to cover the U.S. fuel market in its Los Angeles bureau.

The selected applicant will report on fuel issues ranging from refinery fires to heating oil prices to regulation and investment. The journalist will also examine shifting trends in demand.
Applicants should have:

• A Bachelor of Arts
• Five years' experience at a major news organization
• At least two years' experience covering energy
• Experience in reporting breaking news
• Strong source cultivation skills
  

Learn more about the position and apply online, visit the job posting.

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Reuters and SABEW team up for discussion session

It comes as no surprise that our industry is changing.

To help prepare for the needs of the future, Reuters and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers are teaming up to host a discussion with some of the top producers in business journalism.

The dicussion, being held Tuesday, June 30, will include the following panelists: 

Chrystia Freeland, US managing editor, Financial Times
Larry Ingrassia, business editor, The New York Times
Sree Sreenivasan, dean of student affairs & new media professor, Columbia Journalism School
Laurel Touby, founder & CEO, Mediabistro.com

The discussion will be moderated by
Betty Wong, global managing editor, Reuters.

Get full details here.

Philly papers to charge for online content

By the end of this year, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News will charge for online content.
In a Reuters story, Brian Tierney, chief executive of the company that owns the papers, also said he has plans to take on Google over possibly getting money for Philadelphia Media Holdings from its content that resides on the search engine’s site.
From the story:

"In the case of the Philly papers, Tierney’s company is going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization proceedings. With the company’s life on the line and a $53 million newsroom to run, what’s the harm in trying?"

MarketWatch.com gets a makeover

Reuters reports that MarketWatch.com launched a redesigned Web site today, one that's aimed to attract sophisticated professionals and bring in a wider class of advertisers.
According to the report, the site's new design packs in more content, stock quotes on demand, customized data and charts. It will also offer breaking news, analysis and market data in automatic updates.
From the story:

"It also plans to refine its focus on markets coverage, increase its technology story coverage, step up its presence overseas in places such as Japan, Israel and Canada and emphasize commentary -- a growing trend among news outlets trying to branch out beyond offering "commodity" daily news."

How newsroom cuts may impact SEC

Reuters reports that Mary Schapiro, the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said she is concerned that job cuts in newsrooms may hinder the SEC's ability to crack down on illegal behavior.

"It's an absolute worry for me because I think financial journalists have in many cases been the sources of some really important enforcement cases and really important discovery of practices and products that regulators should be profoundly concerned about," the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission told Reuters Global Financial Regulation Summit in Washington on Tuesday. "But for journalists having been dogged and determined and really pursuing some of these things, they might not be known to the regulators or they might not be known for a long time," she said.

Schapiro then urged laid-off journalists to apply for jobs at the SEC. She said investigative journalism may be an "interesting skill set" that could be very useful to the agency. "[The SEC] has to really broaden its horizons and bring in people who think about things a little differently than it has historically," she said.

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Partners: International Herald Tribune and Reuters

The International Herald Tribune's financial section will have a updated feel next month, changes that stem from a new partnership with Reuters.
The daily business section of IHT.com and the print editions will be renamed Business with Reuters and will publish news from both organizations, according to reports from the International Herald Tribune.
The agreement replaced the papers' partnership with Bloomberg, which since 2002 has worked with the International Herald Tribune's financial sections.
Executive Editor Michael Oreskes said the project could spark even broader cooperation in the future.
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