Business journalism is the part of journalism that tracks, records, analyzes, and interprets the business , economic and financial activities and changes that take place in societies. Topics widely cover the entire purview of all commercial activities related to the economy .
20-569: Fast Company is a monthly American business magazine published in print and online that focuses on technology, business, and design. It publishes six print issues per year. Fast Company was launched in November 1995 by Alan Webber and Bill Taylor , two former Harvard Business Review editors, and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman . The publication's early competitors included Red Herring , Business 2.0 and The Industry Standard . In 1997, Fast Company created an online social network,
40-402: A decline in circulation. Webber and Taylor left the magazine two years later in 2002, and John A. Byrne, previously a senior writer and former management editor with BusinessWeek , was brought in as the new editor. Under Byrne, the magazine won its first Gerald Loeb Award , the most prestigious honor in business journalism. But the magazine could not reverse its financial decline in the wake of
60-651: A list of 50 companies it considers the most innovative. The Most Creative People in Business is a list of 100 people from different industries. Business magazine This area of journalism provides news and feature articles about people, places, and issues related to the business sector . Most newspapers, magazines, radio, and television-news shows include a business segment. Detailed and in-depth business journalism may appear in publications, radio, and television channels dedicated specifically to business and financial journalism. Business journalism began as early as
80-630: A specific topic (i.e. political or trade news magazines , club newsletters or technology news websites). A news article can include accounts of eyewitnesses to the happening event. It can contain photographs, accounts, statistics, graphs, recollections, interviews, polls, debates on the topic, etc. Headlines can be used to focus the reader's attention on a particular (or main) part of the article. The writer can also give facts and detailed information following answers to general questions like who, what, when, where, why and how . Quoted references can also be helpful. References to people can also be made through
100-566: A very limited role in third-world and developing countries . This leaves citizens of such countries in a very disadvantaged position locally and internationally. Recent efforts to bring business media to these countries have proven to be worthwhile. Article (publishing) An article or piece is a written work published in a print or electronic medium, for the propagation of news, research results, academic analysis or debate. A news article discusses current or recent news of either general interest (i.e. daily newspapers ) or of
120-602: Is among the United States of America 's top newspapers in terms of both circulation and respect for the journalists whose work appears there. Journalists who work in this branch are classed as "business journalists". Their main task is to gather information about current events as they relate to business. They may also cover processes, trends, consequences, and important people in business and disseminate their work through all types of mass media. Business journalism, although common in most industrialized countries , has
140-419: Is an important ingredient for newspaper articles, the immediacy of a deadline environment means that copy editing occasionally takes the form of deleting everything past an arbitrary point in the story corresponding to the dictates of available space on a page. Therefore, newspaper reporters are trained to write in inverted pyramid style, with all the most important information in the first paragraph or two. If
160-675: Is owned by Mansueto Ventures and is headquartered in Manhattan . In September 2022 the Fast Company website, fastcompany.com, fell victim to an attack and racist messages were sent. The site was compromised and access to the site was used to send push notifications that the company identified as "obscene and racist." The site was taken offline for eight days as a result. In 2024 the company won The Society Of Publication Designers (SPD) silver medal for its “World Changing Ideas” and six gold medals for its projects, including “Selena Gomez and
180-487: The Middle Ages , to help well-known trading families communicate with each other. Around 1700, Daniel Defoe —best known for his novels, especially Robinson Crusoe —began publishing business and economic news. In 1882 Charles Dow , Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser began a wire service that delivered news to investment houses along Wall Street . In 1889, The Wall Street Journal began publishing. While
200-477: The "Company of Friends" which spawned a number of groups that began meeting. At one point the Company of Friends had over 40,000 members in 120 cities, although by 2003 that number had declined to 8,000. In 2000, Zuckerman sold Fast Company to Gruner + Jahr , majority owned by media giant Bertelsmann , for $ 550 million. Just as the sale was completed, the dot-com bubble burst, leading to significant losses and
220-473: The 21st century they have also become common as online versions of articles that also appear in printed journals. The practice of publishing of an electronic version of an article before it later appears in print is sometimes called epub ahead of print (particularly in PubMed ), ahead of print ( AOP ), article in press or article-in-press ( AIP ), or advanced online publication ( AOP ) (for example, in
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#1732771731353240-654: The Meteoric Rise of Rare Beauty”, “YouTube’s Game Day”, “Brands That Matter”, “The Recommender Gift Guide”. It also won gold in the Best Of Science/Business/Technology category, and for the redesign of the magazine, which launched with the Eva Longoria issue. Launched in 1995, FastCompany.com covers leadership and innovation in business, environmental and social issues, entertainment and marketing, and, through its Co.Design site,
260-466: The context of CrossRef ). The version of record (VoR) represents the definitive form of the article. Electronic VoRs remain largely stable, although a few types of changes may be made: most importantly, errors in the VoR, whose corrections are announced by errata or corrigenda , are often corrected within an electronic VoR itself, so that readers of the VoR will not be unnecessarily confused or misled, and
280-449: The dot-com bust. Although the magazine was not specifically about Internet commerce, advertising pages continued to drop until they were one-third the 2000 numbers. In 2005, Gruner + Jahr put the magazine, as well as Inc. magazine, up for sale. Byrne contacted entrepreneur Joe Mansueto and helped guide him through the sale. A bidding war ultimately ensued, pitting The Economist against Mansueto's company Mansueto Ventures. Mansueto,
300-498: The famous muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell did not consider herself to be a business reporter, her reporting and writing about the Standard Oil Co. in 1902 provided the template for how thousands of business journalists have covered companies ever since. Business coverage gained prominence in the 1990s, with wider investment in the stock market . The Wall Street Journal is one prominent example of business journalism and
320-571: The intersection of business and design, from architecture to electronics, consumer products to fashion. Fast Company also previously operated sites called Co.Labs, Co.Exist, and Co.Create. Co.Exist and Co.Create were rebranded as Ideas and Entertainment sections in 2017. Co.Labs was shut down in early 2015. Fast Company operates several franchises, such as "Most Innovative Companies", "World Changing Ideas", "Innovation By Design", and "Most Creative People". For its Most Innovative Companies feature, Fast Company assesses thousands of businesses to create
340-556: The less vital details are pushed toward the end of the story, then the potentially destructive impact of draconian copy editing will be minimized. Types of news articles include: Electronic articles are articles in scholarly journals or magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. They are a specialized form of electronic document , with a specialized content, purpose, format, metadata and availability – they consist of individual articles from scholarly journals or magazines (and now sometimes popular magazines), they have
360-589: The only bidder who promised to keep Fast Company alive, ultimately won the contest, buying both magazine titles for $ 35 million. Under former editor-in-chief Robert Safian, Fast Company was named by the American Society of Magazine Editors as the magazine of the year in 2014. Stephanie Mehta was named editor-in-chief in February 2018, having previously worked at Vanity Fair , Bloomberg , Fortune , and The Wall Street Journal . Fast Company
380-537: The purpose of providing material for academic research and study, they are formatted approximately like printed journal articles, the metadata is entered into specialized databases, such as the Directory of Open Access Journals as well as the databases for the discipline, and they are predominantly available through academic libraries and special libraries , generally at a fixed charge. Electronic articles can be found in online -only journals (par excellence), but in
400-399: The written accounts of interviews and debates confirming the factuality of the writer's information and the reliability of his source. The writer can use redirection to ensure that the reader keeps reading the article and to draw her attention to other articles. For example, phrases like "Continued on page 3" redirect the reader to a page where the article is continued. While a good conclusion
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