Sweep up a job at TheStreet

The Street.com is looking for a senior editor to lead its technology news team in New York.
The senior editor leading will work in a real-time Internet news environment and oversee the delivery of in-depth reporting and analysis from reporters. He or she will also polish content, generate story ideas, distribute assignments and manage freelancers.
Applicants should have extensive experience with computers, software, telecommunication, personal technology and multimedia. Candidates should also have previous experience as both a reporter and editor.
To apply, e-mail your cover letter, resume and salary requirements to resumes@thestreet.com with "Tech Editor" in the subject line.

To learn more about becoming the senior editor of technology news, click here.

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Cover courts and business in Florida

The Daily Business Review is looking for a full-time reporter in Miami, Florida.
The reporter will cover the business, political and ethical issues of the state court, writing a mixture of enterprise, investigative and analytic articles.
Applicants should be skilled in cultivating sources, breaking new stories and finding and understanding legal documents.
Candidates will be expected to be comfortable with online/multimedia reporting and should have previous experience reporting for a daily publication or covering the law.
To learn more and apply online, visit here.

Go for The Big Money in New York

Slate's The Big Money is looking for an editorial intern at its headquarters in New York.
The intern will:

• Pitch article ideas and cultivate them into complete stories.
• Assist in research.
• Aid in the production process and daily operations.
  

Candidates must be current students enrolled in a degree program. Applicants should be passionate about business, finance and economics and have experience in HTML, Web applications and Photoshop. People with previous editorial experience will be preferred in the application process.
The position is unpaid and takes place from Sept. to Dec. To apply, e-mail your resume, cover letter, three clips and a short critique of a story that has been published on The Big Money to tbminterns@gmail.com. Include your availability from Sept. to Dec. when applying.

Learn more about the position here. Applications are due Sept. 11.

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Cover the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C.

Main Justice of Washington D.C. is looking for a full-time reporter to help cover the U.S. Department of Justice.

The reporter will cover antitrust, environment, taxes, financial fraud, the False Claims Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in relation to the Department of Justice.
Applicants should have experience with newsletters and the ability to work with ease in multimedia and social media. Candidates should also be able to adeptly navigate databases.
To apply, e-mail your resume and cover letter to editors@mainjustice.com with "Jobs" in the subject line.

View the job posting here.

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Join The Washington Post and become a mobile products editor

The Washington Post is in search of a full-time mobile products editor at its bureau in Washington D.C..
The editor will work with the mobile business team and other news staff to create innovative ways to offer Washington Post content (including breaking news) through its new mobile platform on Blackberries, iPhones and other smart phones and devices. Collaborating with the business department, the editor will come up with ways to generate revenue through the Post's new mobile platform. The editor will also have a major role in other digital content including the paper's e-newsletter and will be responsible for creating applications for new technology.
Applicants should have extensive knowledge of Web 2.0 and multimedia. This job is only available for U.S. residents and relocation assistance is available.

Contact Peter Perl, at perlp@washpost.com for more information about the position.

View the job posting here.

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Join Thomson Reuters and lead its new multimedia service's coverage

Thomson Reuters is looking for a planning editor to work at its bureau in New York.
The planning editor will develop and execute a long-term editorial agenda for a new multimedia service catering to professionals in the finance industry. The editor will work with Reuters News, other planning editors on different assignment desks and Thomson Reuters Markets' business divisions to find and prioritize major news events for the service to cover.
Candidates should have a thorough understanding of financial markets and financial data. They should also have at least five years' experience at a news organization that serves finance workers. Editorial experience is preferred and experience in buy/sell side research or a certification in financial markets are a plus when applying.

Learn more about the position and apply, visit here.

Investigate business in Texas

The Corpus Christi Caller-Times is looking for a full-time investigative reporter at its headquarters in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The journalist will report on the politics of business and be expected to produce several A1 or enterprise pieces a week. The reporter will also be expected to embrace the newspaper's multimedia resources and incorporate different multimedia into his or her stories.
Candidates should have at least three years' experience at a daily newspaper as well as a background in business or government. Applicants should be proficient in computer-assisted reporting and in navigating databases. Fluency in Spanish is a plus in the application process.

Find out more about the position and apply online here.

Edit on the Company News desk for Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is looking for a Company News desk editor at its New York office.
The editor will edit top corporate news stories of the day and create wrap-ups from multiple articles with different datelines. The selected applicant will also work with reporters throughout North and South America, mentor new journalists and offer his or her expertise for training courses. The editor will also have additional leadership responsibilities, such as overseeing major projects.
Applicants should have a bachelor's degree and at least seven years' experience at a major news organization. They should also have an understanding of financial issues and be willing to embrace change in editorial technology. A background in multimedia is a plus in applying for the position.

View the job posting and apply online here.

Write masterful business articles in Massachusetts

The Worcester Business Journal is looking for a full-time staff writer at its headquarters in Massachusetts.
The journalist will write short business pieces as well as in-depth articles.The reporter will also be expected to take pictures, shoot video and occasionally proofread for the biweekly publication.
Candidates should have at least one year of professional journalism experience.
To apply, e-mail your resume, cover letter and two to three clips to Editor Christina Davis at cdavis@wbjournal.com. In your cover letter, include two story ideas you would pitch at your first WBJ meeting.

Learn more about the position here.

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Write for MIT's news office

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office is looking for a full-time reporter at its office in Cambridge.
The journalist will cover the business, humanities and arts beat. He or she will cover MIT research and teaching through spot news, profiles, trend stories and features. The reporter will be responsible for creating three story ideas and writing at least three stories a week, each around 600 words long. The writer will also propose multimedia to accompany stories.
Applicants should have a bachelor's degree and at least five years' experience in a news environment.

To apply, visit here and search for job number mit-00006477. A cover letter is required.

View the job listing here.

Work on Planet Money

National Public Radio's series Planet Money is in need of an executive producer at its headquarters in New York.
The producer will oversee the series as a whole, including production, staff and spending. The selected candidate will also work as a representative of Planet Money with NPR departments including Development, Sponsorship, Member & Program Services, Finance, Strategic Planning, Legal and IT.
Applicants should have a bachelor's degree or an "equivalent combination of education and experience." Candidate should have at least 10 years' experience in broadcast journalism and editing. They should also have:

• Experience managing editors, producers and on-air journalists.
• Journalistic or editorial experience reporting on business and economics.
  
• The ability to schedule in a union environment.
• A willingness to relocate and work a variety of shifts.

Knowledge of advanced audio production is a plus, as is an understanding of Web 2.0 including social media, digital production, data visualization and search engine optimization.

To learn more and apply online, visit here.

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Dow Jones needs an editor and journalists

The Wall Street Journal Online is looking for an editor to lead a new business-focused Web site. Dow Jones says the position is "a rare opportunity to help shape a new site that will break ground in the paid-content arena". The editor will lead a team of editors and create comprehensive coverage through multimedia. They will also meet with technology, product development, business development and marketing teams to make the new site.
Applicants should have a strong understanding of business along with 10 years' experience in journalism with at least three to five of those years spent in digital operations. They should also be knowledgeable in content-management systems, taxonomy and metadata design and the product-development process.

Dow Jones is also looking for journalists. A reporter to cover aerospace companies is wanted in California who has five years' experience at a daily newspaper. The company is also looking for a reporter in New York to cover the oil market for its newswire.

Learn more about the position and apply online here.

Be a senior business writer in New Jersey

Diversity Incorporated LLC is looking for a full-time senior business writer for its Web site DiversityIncBestPractices.com at its headquarters in Newark, New Jersey.
The writer will be expected to produce at least 3,000 words a week for stories and conduct video interviews. The journalist will also be responsible for creating business-diversity management features, factoids, charts and timelines as well as for generating story ideas.
Applicants should have a bachelor's degree, five years' experience as a business journalist and experience in writing for the Web. They should also have clips including quotes from senior officials in different corporations and businesses.

To apply, send your resume, salary requirements and a one paragraph statement about your commitment to diversity to Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Barbara Frankel at BFrankel@DiversityInc.com.

Learn more about the position here.

Write and produce in Iowa

BVS Incorporated is looking for an executive producer and writer to work for them in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The writer will work in the Creative Services Division overseeing and creating online content/interactive multimedia. The content he or she creates will be used in computer presentations for training bank and credit union employees.
Those who apply should have a bachelor's degree. Applicants should also have at least four years' experiencing in producing and writing and at least two years' of executive producing for broadcast and Web content.
To apply, email your cover letter, resume, writing samples and other relevant samples of work to the executive vice president at riler@bvs.com or mail it to:

Executive Vice President Rick Iler
BVS Incorporated
4060 Glass Road N.E.
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402

For more information, view the job posting here.

After the crisis

The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism is offering a seminar called After the Crisis: The New Shape of the Economy from Sept. 13-18.
The seminar, which will be held at the University of Maryland, will focus on how to cover the fast-changing economy. Attendees will get four days of hands-on training in multimedia reporting, learning how to use photos, audio slideshows and video to strengthen stories.
The seminar will also offer experts speaking on the future of the economy, changes to financial regulation, government spending, fiscal policy, consumer issues, the energy sector and green jobs.
The seminar is free and food and lodging are covered by fellowships. Journalists of all mediums are encouraged to apply. Applications are due Aug. 10.
To apply for the seminar, click here.

Our economy's scribble

The New York Times recently created an interesting interactive graphic, taking a page from The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in charting the economic cycle and its major turning points.
The chart, reminiscent of drawings in "Harold and the Purple Crayon", illustrates how volatile our economy can be. Using O.E.C.D. data and charting methods, The New York Times actively illustrates the rollercoaster peaks and dips of the economy from the 1970s to the giant fall of May 2009.
Watching the swinging scribbles of the business cycle over the past 30 years (particularly its recent dive) may not be the most comforting thing in the world, but it is enlightening. Following the cues of O.E.C.D economists to simplify data into something visual and trend-revealing was a smart move on the Times part. Making it into a live-action graph that moves was an even smarter one, taking an otherwise complex and alien-looking graph and turning it into an engaging and insightful piece of multimedia.
View the interactive graphic here.

What do you think of the illustration of the economic cycle? What articles or graphics have you worked on lately that simplified complex data? Comment and let us know!

Have an idea for a good blog for The Pulse? Email it to us at businessjournalism@businessjournalism.org.

CHART CREDIT: The New York Times

The downturn reaches a Mongolian goat farm

Today, The New York Times ran an article called "Soft Market for Cashmere Takes Toll in China" that shows the yo-yo effect of the recession from America to China and back again.
The story speaks with goat farmers, yarn factory workers, and sales managers to trace what the drop in America's cashmere demand has meant for people in Mongolia and China.
Accompanying the article is an illuminating piece of multimedia. While a modest slideshow, it tells a strong visual story of the recession's impact on cashmere from a small Mongolian goat farm all the way to Saks Fifth Avenue in New York.
Stories that veer away from the obviously suffering industries (autos, banking, etc.) are more necessary than ever at a time when media organizations can get tunnel vision for the industries frying in the spotlight.
Covering the less blatantly struggling industries not only provides greater coverage diversity but adds detail to the overall picture of the economic recession to show that our problems are more widespread (both in the United States and abroad) than many perceive.
You can view the story here and the slideshow here.

What industries have you covered in the context of the recession? What's a strong piece of business multimedia you've seen? Comment and tell us about it or send it to The Pulse at businessjournalism@businessjournalism.org!

Photo credit: Timothy O'Rourke for The New York Times.

Athletes turned entrepreneurs

Portfolio has created a series of videos interviewing athletes who have become avid entrepreneurs. The athletes discuss lessons they've learned in the process of entering business and offer advice for aspiring industrialists. The athlete entrepreneurs include:

• Peggy Fleming
• Tate George
• Tony Hawk
• Eric Heiden
• Stacy Peralta
• Ray Pinney
• Jerry Rice
• Cathy Rigby
• Leonard Wheeler

These videos go beyond the traditional advice of business executives, delving into the real-life experiences of entrepreneurs striving to establish themselves through their innovation and athletic experiences.
The framing is intimate and creates the sense you're having a one-on-one talk with the speakers. Each interview is cut into 5 bite-size pieces both candid and inclusive for viewers, something all business journalists should aspire to in pieces on business individuals.
To view the videos, click here.

What do you think of athletes that enter business? What stories have you written lately on entrepreneurs? Comment and let us know!

RTNDA offers new financial reporting section

The Radio-Television News Directors Association is offering a new financial reporting section with story ideas, case studies and resources for reporters. It has everything from story ideas for local scams and foreclosure auctions to how to prepare academics and economists for live television interviews.
One great piece of advice RTNDA gives that journalists don't follow enough is to follow the dominoes. Following the micro ripples of the recession through local communities shows readers that journalists care. It also displays the real human casualties in an economic collapse too often portrayed as nebulous and impersonal.
Visit the site here.

How are you following the dominoes? Comment and tell us how you're tracking the recession in your community.

ESPN mag Web site to merge with Insider content

Come August, ESPN The Magazine's website will start charging for its content, the company announced this week.

The publication's content, which consists of a video series an ongoing web articles, will become part of ESPN's Insider content, which costs$6.95 a month, or $39.95 a year.

The Insider, which has about 350,000 paying subscribers, will still be available gratis to ESPN Magazine subscribers for one year.

View the story here.

Road to Ruin

MSNBC has created an interactive timeline charting the major business milestones of America's auto industry over since 1978. It also charts the stocks of General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Company and Chrysler as well as gas prices per gallon, new car dealerships, dealership employees and new vehicles sold.
There can never be too much context with complex issues like those plaging the automotive industry right now, and MSNBC helps give a fresh look at the big picture with its interactive media.
View the timeline here.

GM bankruptcy resources

The Los Angeles Times has created a list of General Motors Corp. top 20 unsecured creditors with the type and amount of claims each has in G.M., a great resource for reporting how G.M. filing for bankruptcy will affect other organizations. It also has great graphics on the number of union workers at G.M. and G.M.'s global sales by region.
The New York Times also has enlightening multimedia on G.M.'s current predicament, including a timeline graphing G.M.'s history from 1908 to today chronicling its struggles and successes up to the Chapter 11. Its graph contrasting the amount of cars and trucks G.M. has been producing since the 1960s is also very insightful. A NYT map showing the number and locations of jobs the company has cut in the past two years helps show where plants may be closed and jobs may be lost in the aftermath of the bankruptcy filing.
Click here to see the most recent press releases from G.M.

Have other information or resources you'd like us to find for you? Comment and let us know.

Riding the wave

This week Google announced its new communication tool, Wave.

Due out sometime this year, the application imcorporates the elements of conversation and an electronic documents.

With Wave, people can communicate and collaborate with text, photos, videos, and maps in real-time.
Participants can also reply anywhere in a message feed, edit content and add participants to the process. 

The product idea, which originated from the success of email and instant messaging, has been in the works for more than two years.

From the post:

"It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use "playback" to rewind the wave and see how it evolved," said Lars Rasmussen, Google's software engineering manager.

Photos for the win

If one thing's for certain, business stories tend to be text-heavy and photo-light. When photos do accompany business articles, they're often of executives sitting stiffly at their desks, products sitting limply on a table, or just an outside shot of a business.
That's why I find the slideshow accompanying The Wall Street Journal's "Wal-Mart Exports Big-Box Concept to India" refreshing.
Eric Bellmen doesn't just take a picture of Mike Duke or the store being constructed. He goes a step farther, taking pictures of the people running India's small retailers soon to be impacted by Wal-Mart in a big way.
Bellmen's slideshow takes Wal-Mart's abstract business decision and makes it concrete, clearly showing the human impact of the business news. Photography is the ideal medium for reporters to incorporate more of the humanity within business news into their stories.
Learning to think outside traditional business photojournalism to create greater context and human interest within business stories is essential for all 21st century journalists to master.
View the slide show here.

Done some great business journalism photography? Comment and tell us about it.

The recession interactive

Portfolio.com, despite its rocky road to survival over the past few months, hasn't faltered in creating outstanding interactive media covering business. Its packages have simplified recent economic issues and put them into context in a clear, visual way.
Take the interactive multimedia with Band-Aids for the Ailing Economy, for example. Portfolio staff created a comprehensive timeline from 1860 to 2008 showing fluctuations in the nation's gross domestic product, wars, financial crises, house majority and major government regulations on the banking industry. This piece not only displays the nuances of what contributes to a faltering economy, but puts today's recession into context in America's financial history.
This multimedia feature achieves what all business coverage should-it takes vast amounts of complex data and facts and serves it to users in comprehensible, chewable pieces.
Some other Portfolio interactive pieces to check out:
Wall Street's Graveyard, Brother, Can You Spare $2?, The Green Miles, Subprimal Headquarters, and False Starts. The graphic Uncle Sam's Growing Portfolio is also worth a look.

To see Portfolio's interactive features section, click here.

Economic map down

Slate created an interactive map this month that chronicles America's increasing job losses from Jan. 2007 to March 2009.
The map is strewn with markers, detailing down to state counties the jobs gained or lost in the current month. The map's animation ticks through its timeline, showing changes in employment down to individual counties by changes in map markers' color and scale.
The project, which is based on local area unemployment statistics from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, takes a large body of data and gives it life. It also provides insight into different regional economic trends over the past three years.
Business journalism projects like this that simultaneously provide a macro and micro perspective on national issues are becoming a necessity rather than a luxury. Multimedia pieces like this interactive map are key in journalism stepping up to help people navigate this complex financial environment.
View the project here.

Huff Post hires former biz editor

Former Washington Post business editor, Lawrence Roberts, was named as the head of a new Investigative Fund for the Huffington Post today.
The fund, which launched in March with an initial budget of $1.75 million, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit initiative with the goal of producing multimedia investigations.
Read the story here.

Portfolio.com relaunches

Condé Nast's Portfolio.com will have a new place to call home this July when it moves to American City Business Journals Inc.'s Bizjournals.com.
Bizjournals will oversee the editorial and business sides of the site from New York, Condé Nast and American City Business Journals announced Wednesday.
From the story:

"In addition to newly created content, Portfolio.com will share content with other Condé Nast sites such as Wired.com, GolfDigest.com, and WWD.com, as it did before. It also will be the home of the archives of content published by Portfolio’s print and digital properties over the past 24 months."

See the full story here.

100 most creative people in business

Fast Company released its collection of 100 Most Creative People in Business Monday. The profile pages have:

• A paragraph about the person's life and work
• Links to their Web sites
• Stories about them from Google News
• Excerpts from their Wikipedia pages, blogs, or other online accounts like Linkedin and Twitter
• Videos of the individuals and their work from Vimeo and Youtube
• Their company's stock ticker or their standing on Google Trends
• A photo gallery of their products, programs and other work
• A collection of their notable quotes

Fast Company's collection shows an informed understanding of the Web. It takes full advantage of its online format, creating a collage of the individuals' Internet manifestations to give people a bigger picture of what each innovator is like.
It also avoids the typical, cliché business profile format, offering readers something they haven't already seen. The collection is a great example of business reporting in a Web 2.0 world.
View the collection here.

WSJ chimes in on press coverage

NPR talks with economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, David Wessel, to chat about the highly-criticized role of media coverage during the financial meltdown on Tuesday's Talk of the Nation newscast.
Listen to the conversation here.

"Reuters Small Business" up and running

Reuters Small Business, a micro-site geared toward entrepreneurs, launched today.
Content now up on the site includes information for finding start-up funding in the bailout area and a multimedia feature on budding handbag maven Jane Saidenberg.
From the site:

We’ve got a dedicated editorial team looking at the stories that matter most to the small business sector, and content from partners like Entrepreneur, BNET, IDG, GreenBiz.com, and Wired. Editor Jon Cook will also be reporting live from the Small Business Week conference in Washington, DC.

AP launches economic stress index

The Associated Press is launching an economic stress index that will provide monthly, multi-format updates on the economic stress of the United States down to the county level.
The index weighs three economic variables - unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcy - to produce a score on a scale of 0-100 that measures how the recession is affecting a county compared to all others.
The scores are then plotted on the interactive Associated Press Economic Stress Maps, which demonstrate at a highly local level how economic conditions have deteriorated since October 2007. They also can be used as a tool to measure the progress of recovery in the coming months, providing a granular view of economic change in the United States.

"The AP Economic Stress Index is a valuable tool for analyzing what got us to this point of the recession," said Kristin Gazlay, the AP's managing editor for business news and global training. "But, even more importantly, it gives us a way to look at how things change over time and judge whether the economy is actually getting better, including pinpointing precisely where the recovery has its roots."

Baltimore Sun cuts 61 from newsroom

The Baltimore Sun this week laid off 61 newsroom employees, or nearly a third of the total newsroom, according to an article on the paper's website.

The reductions hit nearly every type of job in the 205-person newsroom, including top editors, news photographers, critics, columnists, sports reporters, copy editors, page designers and graphic artists, according to The Newspaper Guild, which was notified of the union-represented layoffs. One news reporter was laid off as well, after leaving voluntarily. Most employees were notified Wednesday, with others laid off late Tuesday.

According to Poynter's Rick Edmonds, Ted Venetoulis, who has been trying to buy the Sun for years, thought that a deal was close at hand. However:

[...] by ditching so many experienced print editors, Tribune Co. could be signaling that it plans to continue running the operation itself rather than selling it.

A Baltimore Sun Media Group representative said the cuts were part of the paper's transition to a 24-hour multimedia news operation.
Click here for the article on the cuts, and here for the Poynter article.

WSJ interactive map: "Pressure on the Presses"

The Wall Street Journal has an interactive map that details some of the hits the top 50 U.S. newspapers have taken between 2006 and 2009. A detailed chart also lists the same information for the top 100 newspapers. From job cuts to revenue losses to shutdowns, the multimedia piece illuminates the trouble the industry has faced in recent years.

For the piece click here.

Yahoo! Finance gets CNBC video

Yet another sign that business journalism and multimedia delivery is more important than ever, and it's as simple as supply and demand.
When the economy falters, the consumer feels he or she doesn't have enough information and wants more insight. All eyes turn toward the markets, and Yahoo! is striving to get ahead and fulfill the demand by strengthening its finance channel with a new distribution agreement with CNBC. As part of the content-sharing plan announced today, CNBC, including its global networks, will provide video clips and articles for use on Yahoo! Finance. According to the release, the agreement represents "CNBC's first global online alliance and Yahoo!'s first global finance video agreement." Video topics will include commentary, market buzz, analysis, interviews and investing segments.
For the full release, click here.