By Dick Weiss
Good newspapers and their staffs know how to play all the keys. Dick Weiss cues up three business stories that hit the right notes in coverage and narration. » More
Good newspapers and their staffs know how to play all the keys. Dick Weiss cues up three business stories that hit the right notes in coverage and narration. » More
Tips to Make Numbers Your Best Friend
By Curt Hazlett
Numbers are the business journalist's best friend, and how we employ them in our stories is crucial to success. Here are four tips for using them well... » More
Numbers are the business journalist's best friend, and how we employ them in our stories is crucial to success. Here are four tips for using them well... » More
Make Sense of Numbers in Writing About Business
By Curt Hazlett
My first few years as a business reporter and editor produced countless opportunities to screw up numbers in stories, and as often as not, I seized them. » More
My first few years as a business reporter and editor produced countless opportunities to screw up numbers in stories, and as often as not, I seized them. » More
Six Rules for the Business Writer's Craft
By John Helyar
Somewhere back in the distant past, when cities had evening newspapers and families had three TV networks to choose from, someone must have decreed that business journalists were supposed to be drones. Sportswriters could write colorful tales, and sports columnists... » More
Somewhere back in the distant past, when cities had evening newspapers and families had three TV networks to choose from, someone must have decreed that business journalists were supposed to be drones. Sportswriters could write colorful tales, and sports columnists... » More
Business Profiles Open Windows
By Curt Hazlett
Done properly, profiles can open a window into your beat's most interesting businesses and the people who run them. They can put a human face onto some of the most sweeping and complex topics we cover, like global economics. » More
MORE STORIES
:: Business Euphemisms Fail to Serve Readers
:: Consider Readers First in Business Writing
:: Rules for Success in Business Column Writing
Done properly, profiles can open a window into your beat's most interesting businesses and the people who run them. They can put a human face onto some of the most sweeping and complex topics we cover, like global economics. » More
MORE STORIES
:: Business Euphemisms Fail to Serve Readers
:: Consider Readers First in Business Writing
:: Rules for Success in Business Column Writing
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