The following is an excerpt from a Beat Basics Update by Rob Wells on investigative business reporting. You can read the entire update to the ebook here. There are vast
In any undertaking, once you’ve done it long enough, you’ll have developed working habits. That is important, because if must consciously think through every action
You have a business selling used bottle caps at 5 cents a piece to collectors (because there’s a customer born every minute). Last year the
“Fake news” has become a thorn in the side of reporting. Yes, there are always stories that have failings in bias, bad research, or other
You’d think this would be a given, but too many business stories incorporate information that, while popularly believed, is simply wrong. If you don’t check
You know the drill. You receive a response to an outstanding query, or maybe it’s something tepid coming in over the transom. The email lauds
October means witches, goblins, and all things spooky. To freelancers, few things are scarier than getting ghosted by an editor or other key person in their project.
There’s a sucker born every minute. As a reporter, particularly a business journalist, you don’t want the next one to be you. There have been
I’ve come across some new (at least to me) tools that are great for reporters doing data work as part of their business journalism. Here
By Rob Wells Investigative reporting allows you to reveal unethical business behavior that is harming investors and society at large. This guide by Rob Wells,
Graduating is hard. Finding a job is hard. Living through a pandemic is hard. Combining all three of those aspects together may look like an
There is no good journalism without information. But there are very different types: poor, decent, good, great, and too good. Most of these gradations sound
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