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Dick's Picks: Local Clarity
The troubled economy continues to dominate business reporting. The following stories show that the big issues and consequences of the financial crisis need not be ceded to writers with the national press but can be handled quite well by good business...
By Dick Weiss

Barlett & Steele Awards: Panelists Advocate Investigative Business Reporting
By Michelle Price November 21, 2008 The 2008 winners of the Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism discussed their work Thursday at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. The winners,...
By Michelle Price

Barlett & Steele Awards: Investigative Dream Team
By Kelly Carr November 19, 2008 They both got their start in Philadelphia on the same day. For Donald Barlett, James Steele was a fellow newcomer at The Philadelphia Inquirer, the young kid with the long hair. Steele also...
By Kelly Carr

Reynolds Center News: Reynolds Foundation Gives ASU $5.34 Million for Business Journalism
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation announced today two grants totaling $5,336,360 to make Arizona State University a global hub of business journalism education by endowing a faculty chair and expanding the work of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for...
By Reynolds Center Staff

Roush Rant: Open Reporting
Chris Roush November 17, 2008 Earlier this month, business journalists attended a private equity fund’s conference as moderators of panels containing Wall Street heavyweights. This scenario presents a problem for me. The trouble is that the conference was off-the-record, so...
By Chris Roush

Barlett & Steele Awards: Behind the Story: BusinessWeek’s “Prisoners of Debt”
By Brian Grow, Robert Berner, Keith Epstein and Geri Smith November 17, 2008 In early 2007, before the full extent of the subprime mortgage debacle became evident and the U.S. financial system crumbled, BusinessWeek launched an examination of less-well-known...
By BusinessWeek Staff

Barlett & Steele Awards: Behind the Story: “The Favor Factory” from The Seattle Times
By David Heath November 17, 2008 You would think it'd be easy to track down an 85-foot boat, especially one that Congress ordered the Navy to buy. But call after call to a high-level Navy spokesman only netted me...
By David Heath

Awards & Scholarships: Working Journalists and Business Journalism Professors Awarded Reynolds Center Fellowships
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has awarded 14 fellowships to its weeklong "Strictly Financials Seminar" for working journalists and 11 fellowships to the "Business Journalism Professors Seminar." Both programs will be held Jan. 6-9 in Phoenix,...
By Reynolds Center Staff

On the Beat: Getting Settled
After years of working as a government reporter, Erik Ortiz switched roles last September to cover business for The Press of Atlantic City. But just a few days into the new job, which presented a major learning curve, he was...
By Kelly Carr

Magazine Watch: Obama and the Economy
The enormous victory won by Senator Barack Obama in the Presidential race came from the backing of voters desperately unhappy with the state of the economy and eager for new direction from the top. Many in business, though, still view...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

Dick's Picks: Struggles and Solutions
By Dick Weiss November 7, 2008 I had an editor who once said: “Don’t come in here and tell me about your problems, unless you have a solution.” Newspapers are good at highlighting problems – particularly in the wake of...
By Dick Weiss

Columnists: Where the Weekly Began
By Henry Dubroff November 6, 2008 By most accounts, the first modern weekly business journal was Cervi’s Rocky Mountain Journal, a publication launched in Denver in 1948. Eugene Cervi was a true journalistic maverick, a cranky soul who had worked...
By Henry Dubroff

On the Beat: Smart Sourcing
“Print that and I’ll sue you!” The phone line then went dead. Such encounters remind us of the importance of vigilantly caring for and feeding good sources, the ones reporters want to keep for a long period of time. They...
By John Emshwiller

Columnists: Holiday Retail Coverage
By Andre Jackson October 31, 2008 It’s that time of year again. The Christmas wreaths are bumping up against the Halloween costumes on clearance in the aisles of the nation’s retail stores. All too soon, parking lots and malls...
By Andre Jackson

From our Editors: An Open Newsroom
By Kelly Carr October 28, 2008 Battle Creek buzzed earlier this month as rumors spread that a big company was planning to build inside or within miles of the city’s limits. If true, this would be a  substantial news...
By Kelly Carr

Roush Rant: Promoting Diversity
Chris Roush October 28, 2008 During the summers of 2006 and 2007, I spent some time in South Africa conducting training sessions at newspapers and teaching business journalism at Durban University of Technology. As a white male, the thing that...
By Chris Roush

Dick's Picks: Relevant Economics
By Dick Weiss October 29, 2008 Getting readers to engage with a story about farms isn’t always easy when they are sitting in the suburbs. Or writing about people who use pawn shops may be a tough sell to readers...
By Dick Weiss

Under the Magnifying Glass: The Bailout Cash Trail
By Michelle Leder October 27, 2008Two weeks ago, Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act in an effort to fix the serious problems that have been roiling the financial markets. While reasonable people may disagree about whether the legislation was...
By Michelle Leder

Reynolds Center News: Post-Election Business Coverage: The Day After and Beyond
Join our expert panel for a 60-minute discussion on what to look for post-election in terms of the economy and the players in Washington.  We’ll discuss possible business story angles, both local and national, that should be on your radar...
By Reynolds Center Staff

Columnists: The Public Relations Game
By Alec Klein October 24, 2008 PR people. They evoke all manner of visceral reactions from reporters—anger, belligerence, distrust, avoidance, benign sighs of ennui—but infrequently, respect. Still, I dare to say: We need to take into account PR people;...
By Alec Klein

Magazine Watch: Financial Power Players
No one knows how the financial crisis will turn out, but SmartMoney magazine suggests who might resolve it, which is some comfort in these troubling times. The magazine puts out an annual list of “the top decision makers who will...
By Jennifer Hopfinger

On the Beat: Trusted Lists
There are plenty of reasons for business writers to resent the spread of lists – Fortune 500, Forbes 400, and all their varied offspring in magazines, newspapers and weekly business journals – especially now. With news holes shrinking, lists can...
By Jeff Bailey

On the Beat: Intern Spotlight: Cassandra Crockett
Cassandra Crockett had never written for a daily newspaper, that is, until this past summer. For 10 weeks, as part of an internship sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, Crockett had the chance to jump...
By Kelly Carr

Roush Rant: Correct Lingo
Chris Roush October 17, 2008 With the dramatic gyrations in the stock market this past month, there have been more than a few conversations in business journalism circles about the verbs that we use to describe what the market did...
By Chris Roush

From our Editors: Multimedia Myths
Extreme market changes and recent financial uncertainty have provided noticeable examples of the Web’s dominance in delivering the news, but still, print reporters I’ve met from West to East and South to North struggle to embrace this different perspective. At...
By Anita Malik

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