Good books about business
I was at my local Barnes & Noble this afternoon and picked up two books about companies or industries that promise to be good reading. The first is “The Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Global Financial Catastrophe,” by Jeremy Leggett. It is published by Random House and sounds exactly was it […]
Understanding finances a requirement for all journalism majors?
I had a meeting this afternoon here at UNC with two large donors to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. I was explaining to them the program that we have for business journalism education, and I mentioned the fact that in the “Business Reporting” class, all of the students learn how to read a […]
Nice story from an S-4
For those of you who have heard me lecture about finding stories in SEC filings, you know that one of my biggest pet peeves in business journalism is the fact that reporters don’t look enough at Form S-4 filings and other SEC filings related to mergers and acquisitions to write the behind-the-scenes story related to […]
Interesting conversations
I’ve had three interesting conversations and/or contacts related to business journalism in the past 24 hours that I thought I would pass along for their interest: 1. I was contacted by the CFO of a private company in Connecticut, who had gotten my name from a journalism professor at Quinnipiac University. Seems this CFO is […]
Florida International looking to start master's program in biz journalism
Here is the announcement. If you are currently a business journalist but have no academic teaching experience, don’t be dismayed by the language in this announcement. Plenty of us teaching business journalism at the University level got into this racket without much, or any, teaching experience: PROFESSOR/ASSOCIATE/ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & […]
Employee benefits
One of the stories that I like to see being written in business sections around this time of the year is an annual story about the rising cost of health care. Many companies that provide health coverage for their employees are now getting their bills from their health insurer detailing how much their cost will […]
Largest public companies by state
I regularly get asked by business reporters about how to find the largest public companies in their state. Unless they have a Bloomberg terminal in their newsroom, I haven’t had any other suggestions on a quick and easy way to get such a list. Until now. I was looking at the Nightly Business Report web […]
Business reporting position open in Charleston, WV
Got this from Eric Eyre, who recently moved over from education to business at the Charleston, W.Va., newspaper. Eric is a reader of the blog: The Charleston Gazette has an opening for a business reporter. The Gazette is a 51,000 daily/84,000 Sunday newspaper in the heart of Appalachia. We’ve won the Loeb business writing award […]
Nice collection of Internet sites for business economic information
The Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta has compiled online a nice collection of Web sites if you’re looking for information about the economy. It can be found here. These are very useful starting points when you are not sure about the originating source of the data. Note that the economic calendar link […]
National Press Foundation seminar in LA
The National Press Foundation is holding a business reporting seminar in Los Angeles on Nov. 21. The deadline to apply is Nov. 18. Admission is free, but you need to reserve a spot. Find out more details here. The speakers include: Understanding Economic Indicators – Gary Zimmerman, Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Understanding […]
