It seemed like an opportunity too good to pass up, a chance for a young online startup to pounce on a news niche that has proven popular across the country but was virtually abandoned by one city’s legacy media.
All … Read more
As journalism entities move beyond ads in pursuit of new revenue streams, events have proven a popular target. People who won’t pay $15 for a digital subscription, the theory goes, may pay $20 instead for wine, cheese and a panel … Read more
Believe it or not, there are ways to make money in journalism. One of them is by crossing from the editorial to the business side of the industry.
While some journalists have launched their own news sites, others have found … Read more
Salmon: Journalists shouldn’t be blamed for failing to expose banks before financial crisis
“There’s a reason why the journalism comes out after, you know, the 2000 stock market crash, after the 2008 financial crisis — because at that point we want someone to blame. If you do the journalism beforehand, nobody cares. … It’s only when you’ve got something meaty, and you have a narrative with the rise and fall of this thing that it suddenly becomes a story.”
Felix Salmon, Reuters business writer
Whether you’re covering agriculture, education, business or environmental issues, there’s a global component to your beat. Journalists increasingly need to understand the big picture to cover their communities.
“The global context used to be too large and abstract to matter … Read more
“The Reuters report highlights a third reason the full truth of [Mitt] Romney’s job record at Bain has been hard for reporters to get at: it’s a political story that requires financial reporting expertise. From a scan of bylines, it appears that most, but not all, outlets that have financial expertise don’t tend to put those reporters on the Bain story — perhaps it might compromise their reporters’ relationships with sources in that world. Reuters did it anyway.”
Keach Hagey on why it's so difficult for journalists to report on Romney's record at Bain