Comparing mortgage-backed securities to chicken parts
A good business journalist needs to provide steady content to their employer so that they can spend the time to report and write the stories they want to cover in their spare time. That was the advice given Friday by Allan Sloan, the senior editor at large at Fortune magazine and one of the top […]
Fortune’s Sloan speaks
Allan Sloan, the senior editor at large for Fortune magazine, spoke Friday afternoon at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers about how he got his start in business journalism.
Fortune's Sloan speaks
Allan Sloan, the senior editor at large for Fortune magazine, spoke Friday afternoon at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers about how he got his start in business journalism.
Explaining personal finance topics
Larry Ingrassia, the business editor of The New York Times, explains the paper’s personal finance coverage philosophy. Ingrassia was part of a panel on personal finance coverage at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers annual conference.
SEC chair Schapiro: Our core mission compromised
By Sarah Frier The Securities and Exchange Commission doesn’t have the resources or the support to do its job right, said its chairwoman on Friday. “I’m concerned about our core mission,” Mary Schapiro told journalists at the Society of American Business News Editors and Writers conference Friday. “We can’t review all corporate filings the way […]
SABEW conference comes to Dallas this week
Bob Mong, the editor of the Dallas Morning News, writes about the improvements made in business journalism in recent decades as the Society of American Business Editors and Writers comes to his city later this week for its annual conference. Mong writes, “Coverage of business and financial news was once a journalistic backwater, often a […]
Slow job growth in business journalism
Just one out of five business news operations plan to add staffers in 2011, while one out of 12 are cutting positions this year, according to an informal survey of business journalists conducted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Of the newsrooms that are hiring, 75 percent plan to add just one […]
SABEW offering paid trips to pension workshop
Journalists are invited to learn how to cover the nationally contentious issue of public pensions at an all-expenses-paid, three-day seminar conducted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in June through a $40,000 grant provided by the McCormick Foundation. Applications are being received now for up to 20 fellowships that will include airfare, hotel accommodations, […]
Eight business journalists vying for SABEW board
Eight business journalists are running for spots on the board of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. The election is being held online for the first time, allowing for SABEW members who don’t attend its annual conference to have a vote. Running for re-election are Missouri State University professor Mary Jane Pardue, Dow […]
Bloomberg News top winner in SABEW’s Best in Business
Bloomberg News, with 20 winning entries, garnered the top awards in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ Best in Business Awards, released Friday morning. GlobalPost was second with 10 awards; The New York Times was third with eight winners. Overall, there were 168 winners across 65 categories, from among 904 entries received. Here […]
