Using social media to find biz stories

Everybody’s using social media, but where in the billions of status updates and tweets can a journalist find solid sources and important stories? The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is holding a conference call later this month for business journalists who need help in untangling the social media maze. Spend an hour listening […]

UNC student studying relationship between biz journalists and sources

My name is Victoria Stilwell, a senior economics and journalism double-major at UNC-Chapel Hill. As a student journalist of four years, I’ve become familiar with the complexities of source relations, especially in the field of business journalism. To help elucidate these relationships, I’m conducting a research study, “Business journalists and their sources: An overview of […]

ICFJ expands China business journalism program

The International Center for Journalists is expanding its pioneering Global Business Journalism Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. A $125,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the nation’s leading journalism funder, will help the center expand the program’s student body, deepen its curriculum and create new partnerships. Launched in 2007, the […]

Columnist group names scholarship after WSJ’s Zaslow

Columnists, indeed journalists and all of America, lost a strong voice with the death on Feb. 10 of Jeffrey Zaslow, best-selling author and “Moving On” columnist of The Wall Street Journal. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists Education Foundation now honors Zaslow by naming its scholarship program after him. The Jeff Zaslow College Columnist Award […]

MBAs for business journalists

Menachem Wecker of U.S. News & World Report writes Wednesday about how MBA students may be attracted to careers in business journalists. Wecker writes, “An M.B.A. degree could also make a candidate more attractive to a business editor, but writing skills will always be the most important credential, Selvin says. ‘I’m a huge advocate for […]

Knight-Bagehot program accepting applications

The Knight-Bagehot business journalism program at the Journalism School at Columbia University is now accepting applications. The deadline to apply is March 1. The fellowship is open to full-time editorial employees of newspapers, magazines, wire services, and broadcast news organizations as well as to freelance journalists. Applicants must have at least four years’ experience. There […]

Reynolds Center offering two $1,000 scholarships to SABEW conference

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will award two $1,000 fellowships to attend the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in Indianapolis March 15-17. The competition is open to full-time journalists who want to attend the center’s free training before and during the conference, as well as […]

Wharton to hold public policy program for business journalists

The Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists will hold a free, one-day program that feature Wharton professors Mark Duggan and Susan Wachter on “Health Care Policy” and “Real Estate and Mortgage Policy,” respectively, in March. The program will be held March 6 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The registration deadline is March 1. The seminar […]

SABEW to hold call on covering foreclosures and housing crisis

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a telephone training call next week for journalists looking for tips and ideas on how to cover the housing crisis and foreclosures with more authority. The call for “Fresh Ideas for Covering the Housing and Foreclosure Crisis” will be held from 2 p.m. to 3 […]

Journalism students learning how to cover business

Christine Lavelle of the Phoenix Business Journal writes about how students from the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications partnered with journalists at the paper this semester to produce stories. Lavelle writes, “This fall, the Journal teamed with the school’s business reporting class, challenging students to find and report on […]