
Tips for the accidental financial journalist
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 living proof that (a) you
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 living proof that (a) you
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 & Steele Award for Investigative
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 search tool on Twitter may
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 you’re after,” she told sessions
Alec Klein is an award-winning investigative business journalist, bestselling author, and journalism professor at Northwestern University. The following is a handout from his Reynolds Center Webinar on investigative reporting. The
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 options for executives. Age: 51
Bill Sizemore Government/military reporter at The Virginian-Pilot Age: 60 Home: Norfolk, VA What I do: Government/military reporter at The Virginian-Pilot Hours worked per week: 40-plus Why I do what I
ALEXANDRA BERZONReporter for the Wall Street Journal, whose work led the Las Vegas Sun to the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Age: 30 Home: Los Angeles, CAWhat I do:
Reuters reporters Matthew Goldstein and Svea Herbst-Bayliss offer a speculative article on the next potential insider-trading arrest. The article uses an FBI agent involved in two high-profile cases as an
Age: 28 Home: Richmond, Va.What I do: Run a business news Web site in RichmondPrevious life: Led backpacking trips after college, then started writing for weekly newspapers, then dailies. My
Age: My agent suggests I not say.Home: New York City.What I do: Freelance as journalist in radio, TV and print.Previous life: Left a full-time job at NY1 News 3 years
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