How To Cover Money

Bastian Obermayer of the Munich based paper Süddeutsche Zeitung and Gerard Ryle, Director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, talked with Jenna Miller of the Reynolds Center to discuss their work with the award winning Panama Papers. Their organizations, along with more than 100 other media partners, took home the Gold Award at the 2016 Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Journalism.

Business journalism professors Karen Blumenthal, Andrew Cassel and Keith Herndon share their tips for engaging students in class. They originally shared these tips during Reynolds Week 2016. Jenna Miller hosts this episode.

The How to Cover Money podcast is back with W.P. Carey School of Business professor Philip Drake and Bloomberg's Tom Contiliano, as they give an introduction on reading financial statements as a business reporter. Jenna Miller hosts this episode.

Brandon Quester and Evan Wyloge of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting share their tips for finding and using census data. Quester and Wyloge originally shared these tips during Reynolds Week 2016. Megan Calcote hosts the podcast series. To read the AZCIR's four-part investigation on hazardous chemicals, visit businessjournalism.org.

Robin McDowell, and Martha Mendoza of the Associated Press discuss their 2015 Barlett and Steele Gold Award winning investigation “Fish Slavery.” McDowell and Mendoza discussed their project with Katherine Fitzgerald and Eddie Keller earlier this year. Megan Calcote hosts the podcast series. To read the AP's four-part investigation, visit businessjournalism.org.

University of Michigan economist Donald Grimes shares his tips for finding Regional Employment data. Megan Calcote hosts the podcast series. To access the reports and surveys Grimes recommends during the podcast visit businessjournalism.org

Christopher Serres and Glenn Howatt of the Minneapolis Star Tribune sat down with Katherine Fitzgerald and Eddie Keller of the Reynolds Center to discuss their award winning work, "Unchecked Care." Serres and Howatt's investigation won the Silver Award at the 2015 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism. Visit businessjournalism.org to read their four-part investigation. Megan Calcote hosts the podcast series.

Glenn Hall, Executive Editor at the Washington Post shares more tips for creating winning business investigations. He originally shared these tips at Reynolds Week 2016. Megan Calcote hosts the podcast series. Applications for the 2016 Barlett & Steele Awards are now open. Visit http://bit.ly/BarlettSteeleApp2016 to submit your work today.

Pat Beall of The Palm Beach Post sat down with Katherine Fitzgerald and Eddie Keller of the Reynolds Center to discuss her award winning work, "Dying for Care." Beall's investigation won the Bronze Award at the 2015 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism. Visit businessjournalism.org to read her four-part investigation. Megan Calcote hosts the podcast series. Applications for the 2016 Barlett & Steele Awards are now open. Visit http://bit.ly/BarlettSteeleApp2016 to submit your work today.

Glenn Hall, Executive Editor at the Washington Post shares his tips for creating winning business investigations. He originally shared these tips at Reynolds Week 2016. Megan Calcote hosts the podcast series. Subscribe to the How to Cover Money podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud. New episodes come out biweekly on Fridays.

In the third and final part of our conversation on covering the legal marijuana industry, Ricardo Baca, editor of The Denver Post’s website The Cannabist; and Kevin Dale, executive editor of Arizona PBS’s Cronkite News, share their insights from covering the industry in Colorado. Megan Calcote hosts this episode highlighting the journalists’ experience testing the potency of edibles and calling out the brands that failed to meet their own advertised standards. They also discuss the shift in public opinion and how local control in Colorado has played out since legalization.   For more information about investigations into product potency or to learn about chemical and pesticide testing in marijuana, visit the stories below. Edibles’ THC claims versus lab tests reveal big discrepancies THC levels in edibles: See the lab tests On testing THC in edibles: The story behind our pot report Video: Contaminated marijuana sold at Oregon dispensaries

Ricardo Baca, editor of The Denver Post’s website The Cannabist; and Kevin Dale, executive editor of Arizona PBS’s Cronkite News, who directed pot coverage as a top editor at the Post, share more insights on covering the legal marijuana industry. They originally shared these tips at Reynolds Week 2016. Megan Calcote, program coordinator for the Reynolds Center, hosts the podcast series. Subscribe to the How to Cover Money podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud. New episodes come out biweekly on Fridays.

Ricardo Baca, editor of The Denver Post’s website The Cannabist; and Kevin Dale, executive editor of Arizona PBS’s Cronkite News, who directed pot coverage as a top editor at the Post, share their insights in covering the legal marijuana industry. They originally shared these tips at Reynolds Week 2016. Megan Calcote, program coordinator for the Reynolds Center, hosts the podcast series. You can subscribe to the How to Cover Money podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud. New episodes come out biweekly on Fridays.

How to Cover Money episode 23 is now available on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher. In this week’s episode, Jennifer Conlin, New York Times contributor and founder of Creative Voice, shares tips for generating. She originally shared these tips at SABEW 2015 during a session on covering regional economics. Megan Calcote, program coordinator for the Reynolds Center, hosts the podcast series. You can subscribe to the How to Cover Money podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud. New episodes come out biweekly on Fridays.

Leslie Wayne, adjunct faculty at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, shares tips for covering campaign finance. She originally shared these tips at Reynolds Week 2016.

This week, Steve Doig, data journalist and Knight Chair in Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communciation and Evan Wyloge, senior reporter at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting share databases you can use for your business reporting. They originally shared this list of databases and tips for using them at Reynolds Week 2016. If you'd like to visit some of the databases discussed during the podcast, visit businessjournalism.org

This week's episode features Christopher Waddell, associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario Canada, and excerpts of his session at the 2015 Canadian Association of Journalists conference. Megan Calcote, program coordinator for the Reynolds Center, hosts the podcast series.

Today we take a look back at some of the best tips we got from all of the amazing journalists that joined us for this series. If you missed any episodes, feel free to circle back to any of our previous episodes and, of course, keeping thinking like a business reporter!

Today we have a very familiar "guest" on the show. We spend time chatting about sports rivalries with HTCM host Micki Maynard. How To Cover Money is a weekly podcast from the Reynolds National Center For Business Journalism at Arizona State University. Reynolds Director Micheline Maynard and co-host Mark Remillard of KTAR News in Phoenix offer tips on ways to find the money in any story, even if you aren't a business journalist.

Part two on the editor's point of view includes Marilyn Geewax of NPR giving us her thoughts on the importance of impact in stories. She discusses how news from around the world affects readers and listeners in local markets, and its up to journalists to convey that.