Annette Haddad dies at 46; real estate reporter for The Times’ Business section

This article and photo were reproduced here with permission from The Los Angeles Times: Obituaries website. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-annette-haddad23-2009apr23,0,531295.story By Jon Thurber, April 23, 2009, Annette Haddad, a Business section reporter for the Los Angeles Times who covered the volatile Southern California residential real estate market, has died. ...[Read More]

Arizona State Cronkite School Dean Callahan Talks About SABEW Move

SABEW's membership voted last month to relocate the the organization's headquarters from the University of Missouri in Columbia to the Cronkite School of Journalism at the new Arizona State University campus in downtown Phoenix. Chris Callahan is the founding dean of the school. Before accepting the ASU job in 2005, Callahan  helped lead the University of Maryland's journalism program to national ...[Read More]

Business Press Fell Down on the Job

Columbia Journalism Review's Starkman argues coverage was lacking. Power Problem The business press did everything but take on the institutions that brought down the financial system By Dean Starkman "The government, the financial industry and the American consumer--if they had only paid attention--would have gotten ample warning about this crisis from us, years in advance, when there was still ...[Read More]

Business Journalists and Sell-Side Analysts: An Evolving Relationship

By Laura Marcinek In November 1998, Henry Blodget, a young CIBC Oppenheimer Corp. analyst trying to make a name for himself, raised his six-month target price for Amazon.com's stock to $400. What seemed like a leap of faith turned out to be correct when the Amazon.com's stock reached a split-adjusted $417 within a month. Blodget was soon hired at Merrill Lynch, replacing an analyst who refused to ...[Read More]

Journal’s Wilke Dies of Cancer at 54

WASHINGTON -- John R. Wilke, a 20-year veteran of The Wall Street Journal known for incisive reporting on the intersection of business and politics, died of cancer Friday afternoon at his Bethesda, Md., home. Continue reading at The Wall Street Journal....[Read More]