Top investigative tips for beginning business journalists
Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016
2:00 p.m. EST
In this one-hour session, Cezary Podkul of ProPublica will share the formula behind prize-winning investigative pieces. Podkul was this year’s winner of the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist award.
Listen to the recording here.
Training Links:
How Wall Street Tobacco Deals Left States with Billions in Toxic Debt
Landlords Fail to List 50,000 N.Y.C. Apartments for Rent Limits
NYC Bill Targets Landlords Who Get Tax Breaks, Duck Rent Limits
NY State Data Indicates Even More Landlords Duck Rent Limits
NY Lawmakers Want Stiffer Penalties for Landlords Who Ignore Rent Limits
Panelists:
Cezary Podkul
Financial investigative reporter
ProPublica
Cezary is this year’s winner of the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist prize, honoring journalists under age 30. Cezary earned a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is a 2011 alumnus of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, where his master’s thesis on unspent highway earmarks developed into the eventual USA Today report and was featured on NBC Nightly News. In addition to being a SABEW member, he also serves on the board of the New York Financial Writers’ Association.
Special Guest:
Roy Harris
Journalist and Author
Roy Harris is a veteran business journalist and author of “Pulitzer’s Gold,” telling stories behind the stories that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. His newest edition, recently published by Columbia University Press, includes stories written by younger journalists. In the chapter, “Prizing Youth,” Harris talks about recent Pulitzer-winners under 30—Alexandra Berzon for her Las Vegas Sun stories on construction-worker deaths on the Strip, and Daniel Gilbert for the small-town-Virginia Bristol Herald Courier, for his deep study of how landowners who were mineral-rights holders were getting cheated out of royalties by the state.
Moderator:
Marty Steffens
SABEW Chair
University of Missouri
As the Society of American Business Editors and Writers endowed chair, Martha Steffens teaches business and financial journalism, as well as organizing seminars for business journalism professionals. Steffens has taught more than 450 professional in business workshops sponsored the Southern Newspaper Publishers Assn. and SABEW. She assumed the chair in 2002, after a 30-year career in newspapers, including executive editor of the San Francisco Examiner, and earlier the Press & Sun Bulletin in Binghamton, N.Y.
The Larry Birger Young Business Journalist award and teletraining are made possible by a gift from rbb Communications of Miami, Fla. The award commemorates Birger, a former Miami Herald business editor who led SABEW as president in 1977. Birger was later a principal in rbb until his death in 1998.
Questions about teletraining?
Please contact SABEW at sabew@sabew.org.
Presented as a member service by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
