After years of covering a beat, earnings stories can lose their appeal for some reporters. Many reporters fall into a “plug and play” role. But that’s not what Scott Malone of Reuters did in his piece about Oshkosh Corp. Here the numbers aren’t as important as company investor Carl Icahn’s influence. He writes: “Icahn, who [...]
The Greatest Generation of business journalists will come from today’s university students. A perfect storm of events, technology and globalization has equipped this generation to better understand and effectively report on the world of money than any that preceded it. Its words and visuals for financial issues that matter will also carry faster and further [...]
Adam Davidson of NPR’s Planet Money produced an Atlantic article and a two-part segment for Planet Money looking at the loss of jobs for unskilled workers and the growing demand for skilled workers. He explored the issue through Standard Motor Products, a 92-year-old, family-run maker of replacement parts for car engines. In yesterday’s post, Adam offered tips [...]
All that reporting, all those documents, all those late nights. But you finally got that story! Now, how do you get people to read it? In today’s congested media marketplace, storytelling is more important than ever – but too often, it is the neglected element in business journalism.
In this Webinar, you will learn these techniques to tell great stories from Diana B. Henriques, longtime financial writer for The New York Times and the author of the best-seller, “The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust.”
A record number of entries were submitted this year in the 17th annual Best in Business competition, conducted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). A total of 1,030 entries will be considered for awards, bettering last year’s record entry total of 904, according to a press release from SABEW. “We’re very [...]
Adam Davidson of NPR’s Planet Money set out to look at the state of unskilled workers in America. Specifically, he wanted to focus on the loss of jobs for unskilled workers and the growing demand for skilled workers. “This struck me as a very serious issue, it means that, for many Americans, the American dream [...]
There are plenty of books and websites that point out stupid writing and usage. Writers and editors should be well-schooled in spotting and fixing lazy language, but if they are, they’ve forgotten how. We’re reluctant to present yet another tedious list of mind-numbing, foolish words and phrases, but every once in a while, a list is what [...]
I don’t usually blog about blogs, but I liked a post by Micheline Maynard, a Forbes contributor and senior editor of Changing Gears. | Editor’s note: Micki Maynard also wrote the Reynolds Center’s Beat Basics package on Manufacturing. In the Changing Gears post that caught my eye, she wrote about Austin, Texas, looking to boost its [...]
We’ll chat live with David Brancaccio, a special correspondent for Marketplace’s Economy 4.0 and host of the Marketplace Index, on Tuesday, Jan. 31, from 11:30 a.m-12:15 p.m. ET. Brancaccio, a broadcaster for 33 years, was previously the anchor of public television’s NOW, an award-winning newsmagazine of investigative reporting and in-depth interviews. He also hosted California Connected. Before [...]
