Tami Luhby is a senior writer at CNNMoney.com, where she covers the economy. Before joining CNN Money, she covered personal finance for Newsday. Luhby graduated
Looking for great websites for data-driven business stories? Jaimi Dowdell, training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), offered up a bounty of sites for
What do you do when you need to research a topic and you don’t have access to the proprietary LexisNexis news-articles database? That question came
Like people who can’t help asking for health advice from any doctor they meet, journalists who recognize me as the Regret the Error guy usually
Angel Gonzalez, who in recent weeks of his coverage for Dow Jones News Wires has flown over the BP oil spill by helicopter and ridden
Business journalists often become experts in their particular field of study with their years of work and research. Eventually, many become authors, sharing that knowledge
When Mark Tatge began teaching business journalism students three years ago at Ohio University, he realized that the book he wanted to teach from wasn’t
By Pam Luecke So you’ve been assigned to the business beat. Congratulations! Many a fine financial journalist has started on this path accidentally. They are
Gary Cohn is an investigative reporter based in Santa Monica, California. He is a 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner and the recipient of the 2009 Barlett
Journalists can’t avoid hearing about the benefits of using Twitter and other social media tools … whether they believe them or not. Well, the advanced
Jaimi Dowdell, training director for IRE, recommended that you have a strategy when it comes to using the Web as an investigative tool. “Know what
Mark MaremontSenior editor for the Wall Street Journal. His team won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its stories on the back-dating of
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