Tracking financial crimes in a new era
Twenty prestigious journalism fellowships will be awarded to working journalists to attend a two-day conference and workshop “How Do They Get Away With It? Tracking Financial Crimes in a New Era” on  April 1 and April 2 at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. The John Jay Center on Media, Crime […]
University of Nevada seeks business journalism professor
The Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno seeks an outstanding journalist to design and lead a new program in business journalism. Its ad states, “Our ideal candidate will combine broad experience in business coverage with an interest in emerging issues of the green economy, economic sustainability and fiscal stress. We are […]
Reload your skills at SABEW's annual conference
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold its annual conference in Denver on April 26 through April 28, and the program has a number of skills sessions for business journalists to help them advance their careers. Those sessions include: “The Power of Twitter and other Social Networking” sites to help build your source network and […]
Business leaders tune out what they don't believe in biz media
A SmartBrief on Leadership survey released Wednesday shows that nearly three out of every five business executives who believes that the business media sensationalizes coverage still read stories, but they filter out what they need. Another 17 percent believe that they are not getting accurate information from any source, while 15 percent state that they […]
Former WSJ editor to teach journalism
Barney Calame, the former deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, has been named as the Ottaway professor of journalism at State University of New York at New Paltz. An Associated Press story states, “The Ottaway Professorship brings renowned journalists to the campus each spring semester to teach a special topics course. Calame, a […]
Missouri taking applications for new Reynolds chair
The Missouri School of Journalism invites nominations and applications for the Donald W. Reynolds Chair in Business Journalism. This new endowed position, funded by a gift from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, will: Develop and teach new courses at the undergraduate and master’s level in business journalism. Work with other Missouri faculty, including the SABEW […]
We all put our pants on one leg at a time
Michael Diamond, a business writer at the Asbury Park Press, writes about how there’s little difference between business journalists and the people they cover. Diamond writes, “I always enjoy telling the story of how I became a business reporter without taking a single economics class in elementary school, high school or college. About how I […]
Sitting in on a business journalism class
Jim Offner, the business editor of the Waterloo Courier, writes Sunday about what happened when he sat in on a business reporting class at the University of North Iowa taught by Christopher Martin. Offner writes, “It’s a major part of their job in the course, after all, to follow events in the business sector with […]
Reynolds Center names business journalism interns
Eight students from universities across the country have been selected for 10-week business journalism internships at major media outlets in summer 2009, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced today. The students were selected by the host organizations in conjunction with the Reynolds Center, which funds the internships designed to help improve […]
SABEW to hold call on re-inventing business coverage
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a teleconference next Wednesday on re-inventing business coverage during a time of newsroom cutbacks. The call will attempt to provide help on ensuring that business journalism gets the resources it needs in an era of shrinking newsholes and newsroom budgets, and it will provide examples […]
