Covering Real Estate: An introduction
By Jonathan Lansner Dear Reporter: Congratulations on your new assignment. You’ve been assigned to a coverage area that can potentially touch everyone in your organization’s audience. The real estate...
View ArticleCovering Real Estate: Tips for finding standout stories
You can find impressive stories just by keeping your eyes open. Photo: PropertySnaps By Jonathan Lansner So where do you go to get the real estate stories that make your coverage standout? And not just...
View ArticleCovering Real Estate: Resources, experts
By Jonathan Lansner A plethora of groups and companies track the real estate market. Since the math involved is part science, part art, it’s suggested you look at a range of data sets to provide your...
View ArticleCovering Real Estate: Glossary of terms
Photo: Dale Chumbley By Jonathan Lansner Like any other industry, real estate has its own lingo. Here’s a brief slice of the vocabulary needed to succeed in covering this beat. Adjustable-rate...
View ArticleCovering Real Estate: Avoiding traps, mistakes
By Jonathan Lansner In the day-to-day grind that is modern journalism – hour-to-hour for more than a few – we get caught up on various reporting or production habits that get us through a day, week or...
View ArticleReuters’ Luke Baker on building a career as an international business...
Luke Baker’s career has taken him all over the globe to report on everything from film festivals and football tournaments to the conflict in Congo and the Angolan Civil War. Luke Baker, Reuters Now...
View ArticleCovering hospitals: An introduction
The local hospital often remains a mystery to reporters. Few reporters scrutinize its finances. If the job falls to anyone, it goes not to a specialist but to reporters covering business, politics or...
View ArticleCovering hospitals: Core concepts and terms
U.S. hospitals generally have three kinds of financial structures. We’ll dive into each below. Nonprofits, the traditional variety, are the most common, accounting for 58 percent of all hospitals. The...
View ArticleCovering hospital finances: Challenges & opportunities
Beat Basics: MORE on covering HOSPITALS An introduction Core concepts and terms Challenges and opportunities 6 key useful documents Now is a great time to begin covering hospital finances. Hospitals...
View ArticleCovering hospitals: 6 key documents to dig into
There are six key documents that will help get you started on understanding the economics of local hospitals and unearthing some good stories. Beat Basics: MORE on covering HOSPITALS An introduction...
View ArticleMarilyn Geewax: Reynolds Center presenter
Marilyn Geewax Marilyn Geewax is a senior business editor on NPR’s national desk and the national economics correspondent for NPR’s website. She was the national economics correspondent for Cox...
View ArticleInvestment guru Sheldon Jacobs shares advice on covering the stock market
Sheldon Jacobs Sheldon Jacobs knew he wouldn’t make it as a traditional business reporter, so he built a career providing expert investment advice to the general public. In 1974, he launched a monthly...
View ArticleBusiness beat coverage advice from an investment expert
Sheldon Jacobs is the founder of one of the nation’s top investment newsletters, The No-Load Investor, as well as the author of 25 books. When we sat down with him recently for a 5 Questions feature,...
View ArticleThe last Money intern at The Times-Picayune turns out the lights
EDITOR’S NOTE: DiAngelea Millar is a junior at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University. She is completing her bachelor’s and master’s degrees concurrently...
View ArticleDiana B. Henriques: Reynolds Center presenter
Diana B. Henriques Diana B. Henriques became a contributing writer to The New York Times in December 2011, after more than two decades at the paper. As a senior financial writer at The Times, she...
View ArticleGoogle Fusion Tables: A guide for business reporters
An interactive map created using Google Fusion that maps planned developments in Boulder. As business journalists, we handle scores of data and do our best to use those figures and statistics to both...
View ArticleCampaign watch: Tracking the monies tied to conventions
Photo by Flickr user Kelly DeLay Unless the Hurricane Isaac completely swamps the Republican national convention, the end of the summer is going to be marked by two Olympian events in the world of...
View ArticleFDIC ramps up lawsuits against bankers: Dig inside the cases
By Flickr user Adam Fagen The spate of 452 bank failures since 2007 left bankers from failed institutions more vulnerable to being sued by regulators than since the Savings & Loan Crisis of the...
View ArticleA guide to reporting on credit union trends and financials
Photo by Flickr user Thomas and Juliette Aiko Business journalists have a wealth of new data on financial institutions to sift through as the nation’s 7,105 credit unions recently reported...
View ArticleLocal angles in the big business of payday lending
As the economy worsened the number of payday loans sites grew. Photo: Flickr user Taber Andrew Bain Wherever you live and report, there’s a good chance a payday lending battle is brewing in your...
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