Posts Tagged ‘business’
Register for special training Wednesday at the CAR Conference
Start your 2016 CAR Conference a day early to take advantage of some special training opportunities from our partners. Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting will once again offer “Techraking <=16: Bootstrapping the News,” a popular workshop that helps attendees set up their computers to take advantage of all the tools they’ll be learning about…
Read MoreScrutinizing what you scrape: How The New York Times investigated arbitration
A graphic from The New York Times’ arbitration series Court records have long been a vital tool for journalists looking to hold powerful corporations accountable. But what happens when disputes between companies and consumers move out of open court and into private meeting rooms? What happens when class action lawsuits – and the wealth of…
Read MoreTips for finding and using data to fuel business investigations
By Tierra Smith Two IRE speakers helped journalists find data for business stories during a session at the 2015 CAR Conference. Andrea Fuller and John Schoen offered tips on where to look and how to use information to build stronger stories. Schoen, an economics reporter at CNBC Digital, said the key to using data in…
Read MoreIRE Preview: Learn to detect corporate fraud with tips from a crook and a sleuth
Leading up the IRE Conference, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will offer a free pre-conference workshop from 1:30-5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 25. Attendees will learn the fundamental methods for inspecting public filings for corporate fraud. The information gained in this session will allow reporters to spot red flags in corporate disclosures and…
Read MoreBehind the Story: The Indianapolis Star’s probe into the billion-dollar deer farming industry
Ryan Sabalow It’s like a gold rush. There’s money to be made, but the cost of those riches is a host of harmful, unintended consequences. A recent Indianapolis Star investigation uncovered evidence linking lucrative deer farming operations to the spread of invasive lice and diseases such as bovine tuberculosis and chronic wasting disease in wild…
Read MoreStaying on the paper trail of a major business
By Zachary Matson Businesses may control the world, but they also leave paper and people trails everywhere they go. Resources as basic as a company’s website and resources as complex as analytic tools created by financial firms can be used by journalists to tell important stories about what public and private companies are up to.…
Read MoreApply now for agribusiness reporting workshop
Navajo boys plow a corn field on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico, date unknown. Photo from the National Archives and Records Administration. IRE and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting are seeking applicants for an all-expenses paid workshop on how to cover agribusiness in the Midwest. The workshop, held from May 30 to June…
Read MoreWednesday wrap-up: Breaking local stories with economic data
Wednesday was a busy day preparing for the start of sessions on Thursday, but one panel was already under way — “Breaking Local Stories with Economic Data,” hosted by the (Sponsored by Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism). Paul Overberg of USA Today and Thomas Dall and Jeannine Aversa of the Bureau of…
Read MoreCovering the repurchase market and shadow banking
Veteran journalist Mary Fricker has put together a guide for the Reynolds Business Journalism Center on how to cover the repurchase market and shadow banking, which she says is “inherently unstable. It triggered the financial crisis in 2007 and 2008. It’s a key reason that our recovery is weak. Yet in 2008, when the financial…
Read MoreResources for covering the federal budget, fiscal cliff
As the White House and Congressional Republicans inch toward an agreement before the fiscal cliff deadline, the opportunity remains for digging deeper into the federal budget and the impact of a deal — or lack of deal — on both the country’s broad economic health and local communities. Find help in these links and resources.…
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