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Hooked on Kindle
By Chris Roush
Tracking the Business Behind the Tomato
By Jonathan Higuera
Five Questions with Bill Choyke
By Jonathan Higuera
Finding the Economy's Silver Lining
By Dick Weiss
Double Whammy: Oil and Housing
By Jennifer Hopfinger
Listing of all public companies within a certain coverage area
Q. Where can you go to find a listing of all public companies within a certain coverage area, especially when it's a smaller community where, for example, the local Chamber of Commerce has no online presence? -Gregg Gethard, Business Reporter, Old Colony Memorial (Plymouth, Mass.)
A. This is something that I'm constantly looking for, especially when I'm prepping for a presentation at a Reynolds seminar because I want to give examples for companies in the reporters' state and area.
I haven't found anything complete though. A good source is to call a local stockbroker. He's probably dealt with all of the local stocks in the area.
The best thing on the Internet that I've found is this:
1. See if a larger newspaper in the state has done a list of the top 100 publicly traded companies. These are typically kept on their Web site for the entire year. For example, here's one from the News & Observer in Raleigh that I frequently refer back to whenever I'm talking to reporters at remote papers in North Carolina.
The Seattle Times has a list that includes Washington, Idaho and Oregon.
2. Find a Bloomberg terminal in your area. Money managers or small hedge funds or stockbrokers typically have these in their offices. You can do a search for all news on companies by state by typing in "NI" and then the state code and then the green GO button. The state codes for a Bloomberg are the same as its ZIP code.
3. This listing is also a good start. It breaks down public companies by state.
-- Chris Roush, assistant professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, former business reporter with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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The Reynolds Center has announced its 2009-10 free workshop schedule.
Select a workshop and register from the drop-down menu below.
The Reynolds Center registration for Fall 2009 free online seminars.
By Chris Roush
Tracking the Business Behind the Tomato
By Jonathan Higuera
Five Questions with Bill Choyke
By Jonathan Higuera
Finding the Economy's Silver Lining
By Dick Weiss
Double Whammy: Oil and Housing
By Jennifer Hopfinger
Listing of all public companies within a certain coverage area
Q. Where can you go to find a listing of all public companies within a certain coverage area, especially when it's a smaller community where, for example, the local Chamber of Commerce has no online presence? -Gregg Gethard, Business Reporter, Old Colony Memorial (Plymouth, Mass.)
A. This is something that I'm constantly looking for, especially when I'm prepping for a presentation at a Reynolds seminar because I want to give examples for companies in the reporters' state and area.
I haven't found anything complete though. A good source is to call a local stockbroker. He's probably dealt with all of the local stocks in the area.
The best thing on the Internet that I've found is this:
1. See if a larger newspaper in the state has done a list of the top 100 publicly traded companies. These are typically kept on their Web site for the entire year. For example, here's one from the News & Observer in Raleigh that I frequently refer back to whenever I'm talking to reporters at remote papers in North Carolina.
The Seattle Times has a list that includes Washington, Idaho and Oregon.
2. Find a Bloomberg terminal in your area. Money managers or small hedge funds or stockbrokers typically have these in their offices. You can do a search for all news on companies by state by typing in "NI" and then the state code and then the green GO button. The state codes for a Bloomberg are the same as its ZIP code.
3. This listing is also a good start. It breaks down public companies by state.
-- Chris Roush, assistant professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, former business reporter with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Copyright © 2008 Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism