Business journalism: Some ‘moving on’ thoughts
Jon Talton
September 22, 2014
I was always Iron Man. I wasn’t the smartest person in journalism and I sure didn’t have the elite degrees, but I could outwork anyone.
I was always Iron Man. I wasn’t the smartest person in journalism and I sure didn’t have the elite degrees, but I could outwork anyone.
Brahm Resnik was really leaning toward medical school as he was deciding where to attend college. Although he had majored in health sciences at CEGEP
Our calling is inhabited by three kinds of news organizations. Let’s use the Sergio Leone scale: • The Good are ones that practice serious, aggressive
Years ago when I worked in San Diego, I covered a company whose chief executive was truth challenged. So when a fax came across (yes,
Friends don’t let friends write drunk, unless one is at the Algonquin Round Table. But what happens when sources say something demonstrably stupid? Do you
Business journalists especially face the accusation of being “negative.” Companies want to control their image. Many small outfits have no experience in dealing with the
The most authoritative quotes come from on-the-record named sources, preferably senior executives, labor leaders, scientists, economists and workers with direct knowledge of the news. But
In the previous Business Journalism for Dummies post, I laid out some of the basics you need to know if you’re starting out or moving
If you stop by BusinessJournalism.org regularly, you know that I enjoy finding new (and sometimes unusual) resources for journalists. Digging into LinkedIn, finding company tutorials
No, you’re not a dummy. But if you are starting your first job on the business beat or have been reassigned to business after spending
Jon Chesto, who serves as the Boston Business Journal’s managing editor for print, jokes that when he first stepped into the role of business reporting,
I wish I could bring glad tidings on the job front, but alas, no. According to ASNE, 2,600 journalist jobs were lost in 2012 and
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