The business of fashion
While skimming through my go-to financial news websites this past week, I couldn’t help but notice the number of articles dedicated to New York Fashion Week, which officially ended Thursday night. This...
View ArticleHow Forbes writers follow the money
Business journalists need to write strong beginnings to their stories to attract readers, said Forbes Media LLC vice president and investing editor Matthew Schifrin in conference call to review the...
View ArticleLeveraging social media as a business journalist
The public nature of Twitter lends to a two-way conversation that allows reporters to source stories and connect with their audience, said Forbes Media LLC science and medicine reporter Mathew Herper...
View ArticlePrivate equity stories proliferate as the election approaches
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s famed background as a successful businessman has given a multitude of journalists, particularly business journalists, a topic of renewed interest to cover this...
View ArticleThe public relations roadblock to accessing company execs
The love/hate relationship between business journalists and a company’s public relations team is a well documented one. To heighten this already contentious relationship, companies frequently use their...
View ArticleNews aggregation: Both friend and foe
News aggregation is both the best thing and the worst thing about the Internet, said Forbes leadership editor Fred Allen in a conference call Wednesday that focused on how best to leverage the powerful...
View ArticleTwitter’s Luckie talks strategy for journalists
As a way to develop better social media engagement strategies, journalists should treat Twitter and other outlets as an extension of their interaction with people in their personal life rather than as...
View ArticleHow to cover sinking retailers
No company enjoys admitting that it is having financial troubles or is in danger of shutting its doors, and typically does everything in its power to spin a positive outlook to the media and consumers....
View ArticleStock market coverage: Are the continuous updates too much?
There’s the initial story, with two to four paragraphs. Then there’s the first update that adds more context, the second update and closing the story once the stock market has shut down for the day....
View ArticleAvoiding errors, and what to do when they happen
The quick pace of social media and the Web have escalated the importance of getting a story right the first time and avoiding errors as a journalist, said Forbes managing editor for business news Dan...
View ArticleWhat were they thinking? Edition No. 982
Less than a year after the infamous JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s “London Whale” trading scandal that led to a $6.2 billion loss, IR Magazine gave an award to Jamie Dimon, the company’s chief executive...
View ArticleWhy aren’t journalists allowed to ask questions on earnings calls?
The quarterly earnings call is much more than a casual conversation among a company’s executives, analysts, investors and the media — it’s a carefully scripted dialogue that is practiced well in...
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