Addicted to financial porn?
Doug Short of The Motley Fool writes about how easy it is to get addicted to the financial porn on business TV shows. Short wrote, “The airwaves are awash with real-time coverage of the markets. I could spend my entire waking life toggling between CNBC, Bloomberg, and now Fox Business News. If I’m watching Squawk […]
Herb Greenberg talks business journalism
Herb Greenberg is senior columnist for MarketWatch and is one of the top business journalists in the country because of his investigative reporting on companies. His column also appears in the weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal. He joined MarketWatch after six years as senior columnist for TheStreet.com. He previously spent 10 years as […]
Eight business journalism scholarships available
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will award eight scholarships of $4,000 to college juniors or graduate students for their following academic year. Deadline for applications is Feb. 1, 2008, with scholarships awarded March 15, 2008 for the academic year that commences fall 2008. Scholarships are available to students at universities throughout […]
Three-month fellowship to teach business journalism in London
City University in London is offering scholarships to visiting academic faculty interested in teaching financial and/or business journalism in the context of globalization. The scholarships are for three months (mid September 2008Â to mid December 2008) and are worth $19,000. Professors would be required to teach on a master’s in global business reporting (details at: www.mundusjournalism.com). […]
Reflections from Spain
Last Thursday and Friday, I attended a conference at the University of Navarre in Spain on business journalism — led by well-known professor Angel Arrese — that attracted speakers and attendees from across the globe, including Panama, Argentina and the United States. Here are some reflections: 1. The issues facing business journalism in the United […]
Bivins Fellowship winners named
The National Association of Real Estate Editors named Alan J. Heavens of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Seattle-based freelance writer Jane Hodges, who writes for Dow Jones and the Seattle Times, as the winners of the Sixth Annual NAREE Bivins Fellowship. The NAREE Bivins Fellowship entries were independently judged by Professor George Harmon, head of the […]
Professors, biz journalists awarded fellowships
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has awarded 12 fellowships apiece to its weeklong “Business Journalism Professors Seminarâ€? and “Strictly Financials Seminarâ€? for working journalists, both to be held in Jan. 7-10 in Tempe, Ariz.            Educators and journalists from around the nation were selected from a large pool of applicants for […]
Medill seeking new biz journalism professor
Here is the announcement: The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University seeks an outstanding and experienced professional to teach business and economics journalism to graduate and undergraduate students. The successful candidate will have a broad base in all aspects of business reporting and depth in one or two specialty areas. An investigative track record […]
Worried about the quality of business journalism?
Renita Jablonski, a producer for American Public Media’s “Marketplace”; Indira Kannan, U.S. bureau chief for CNBC-TV18 and CNN-IBN in India; Richard Perez-Pena, a reporter with The New York Times; and David Barroux, U.S. bureau chief for French business daily Les Echos, spoke recently at the University of Pennsylvania about how business journalism is changing. Here […]
WSJ's Varadarajan officially joins NYU's Stern Biz School
New York University Stern School of Business announced Monday that former Wall Street Journal assistant managing editor Tunku Varadarajan has been appointed clinical professor of business, effective October 2007. Currently a contributing editor at the Financial Times, Varadarajan will teach the course, “Business and its Publics,” to undergraduates, leveraging his experience in editorial writing, reporting […]
