New business mag in New England

Jay Fitzgerald of the Boston Herald writes Monday about new business magazine Business New England. Fitzgerald wrote, “The magazine, which Kasper plans to launch next spring, will be published six times a year and initially distributed for free, he said. “Kasper has already sent out kits to potential advertisers outlining ad rates and editorial content. […]

The cliches in business journalism

Mark Patinkin of the Providence Journal writes Sunday that some readers are tired of reading cliches in business journalism. Patinkin wrote, “Some of you may think stocks went down last week after some poor earnings. In fact, the bottom fell out after some S&P powerhouses failed to beat the street. “But there were some bright […]

Conference call to discuss Christmas retail coverage

The day after Thanksgiving, as any retail reporter will tell you, means skipping turkey sandwiches to wake up early and trek to the mall looking for customers and merchants willing to offer up a quote. It’s time to start planning your coverage. Love it or hate it, readers and viewers count on us to cover […]

Reuters reporters to file using mobile device

Dominic Ponsford of the Press Gazette in England writes Tuesday that business news wire service Reuters is working on providing its reporters with a mobile device that will allow its reporters to file from anywhere in the world. Ponsford wrote, “It is a new mobile application which the agency said is a ‘a lightweight toolkit […]

Business journalists: The Internet helps us do our job

Business journalists increasingly use blogs and instant messaging to communicate with sources and performing reporting functions, according to a survey released Monday. The 2007 Arketi Web Watch Survey found that more than four out of five business journalists said they would use a blog as a primary or secondary source. In addition, the survey found that […]

What biz wires can teach the rest of business journalism

The best business journalists at the Associated Press are those that can be both reporters and editors at the same time, its business editor said Saturday. “Our reporters will be out in the field gathering news and writing stories, but they will also have a desk assignment” later in the week or the next week, said […]

Press release jargon, and those that hate it

Ben Worthen of The Wall Street Journal writes on the Business Technology blog about how jargon makes it into press releases that business journalists then have to translate into English. Worthen wrote, “Terms like ‘solutions,’ ‘robust,’ and ‘leverage’ aren’t just meaningless, they’re harmful. They intimidate people who aren’t familiar with information-technology, at best causing them […]

Plusses and minuses to writing, blogging as biz reporter

Being a business journalist today means spending more time on the job to write stories for the newspaper as well as items for a blog, said Greg Ip, senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal, on Monday. “My priority is still getting the news and getting it right,” said Ip to students and faculty […]

Former WSJ ME Steiger to lead investigative journalism group

Former Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger will lead a new organization that will perform investigative journalism and give its content to media outlets, writes Richard Perez-Pena of the New York Times. Perez-Pena wrote, “The nonprofit group, called Pro Publica, will pitch each project to a newspaper or magazine (and occasionally to other media) […]

Avoiding the Jargon Jar

Grant Robertson of the Toronto Globe and Mail writes Sunday about how business journalists on the Fox Business Network hope to avoid the Jargon Jar. Robertson wrote, “When the lights go up Monday morning on Fox Business, some of the anchors on Rupert Murdoch’s new financial TV channel will keep a jar on the desk. […]