SABEW to hold conference call on unemployment stories
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a teleconference next week for business reporters looking for fresh angles on the unemployment story. The call will examine the latest regional, state and local unemployment trends, what industries are losing jobs and which ones are hiring, and what double-digit unemployment means for local businesses […]
Sloppy online reporting hurts business journalism
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE I’ve always been a big proponent of online business journalism. Some of the best journalism done today comes from sites like Marketwatch.com, TheStreet.com and others. But there’s nothing that bugs me more than sloppy business reporting online because it tells the reader that there wasn’t as much care taken with the […]
NYT ombudsman critical of tech reporter's sources
New York Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt weighs in on technology reporter Brad Stone‘s story from last week about how some people check e-mail before doing anything else in the morning and is critical of the sources used. Hoyt writes, “Stone told me he sent messages to ‘people I thought of as connectors’ and through them found 10 […]
Job numbers the biz media ignores
Jeffrey Miller is a former college professor who is an expert in statistics. He has used his expertise to manage money and has become an expert in predicting how news will influence markets. Miller has a great post on his blog about employment data from the Jobs Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) issued every […]
12 tips for better biz column writing
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE I asked Loren Steffy, the business columnist at the Houston Chronicle, earlier this week for some tips on writing a business column. The tips are intended to be included in a second edition of a business journalism textbook. But the tips were so good, I asked Loren if I could share […]
Bad front-page FT story
Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review can’t believe the front-page story in the Monday Financial Times that states that Goldman Sachs’ image has been tarnished and mentions a poll to back up that assertion — but never provides any of the poll’s numbers. Chittum writes, “The FT bases its assertion on a survey done […]
McMillan is influential in Colorado business news
Dean Rotbart profiles Denver Post business editor Steve McMillan on Examiner.com and calls him one of the most influential media people in the state. Rotbart writes, “As business editor, McMillan is crucial in the decision of which stories and trends to track, which reporters are assigned to which beats, and how much ‘play’ business news […]
Fox Business Network's Joshi on reporting from India
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Fox Business Network reporter Shibani Joshi spent time in India last week reporting on business in that fast-growing country. Stories about India have been appearing on Fox Business Network shows throughout the day. Her reporting will culminate in a one-hour special scheduled to air later this week on the business network. […]
The outsider at CNBC
John Gapper of the Financial Times writes Friday about CNBC‘s Charles Gasparino, who revels in his persona of being an outsider even among the people with whom he works. Gapper writes, “Gasparino thrives on being awkward, even on being disliked, within CNBC. It burnishes his image as a tough outsider willing to go to battle […]
How did WSJ reporters get quote from executive’s call?
Reid Pillifant of the New York Observer writes Wednesday about a Wall Street Journal story that quoted a CEO from a private teleconference with investors saying his company was bidding to acquire a bank. Pillifant writes, “The report cited ‘people familiar with the matter’ as identifying the unnamed bank as Corus Bankshares Inc., but Journal […]
