Cherchez le corn. The ubiquitous yellow grain gets a rap these days for everything from obesity to diabetes to problems at the fuel pump, depending on whose blog or website you're reading.

A Report to the Center for International Media Assistance.

ASTANA - In October 2010 the Delegation of the European Union to Kazakhstan and the EU Member States' embassies organize three non-profit information and awareness raising events to promote education possibilities in Europe.

Veteran financial journalist and author Alan Deutschman has been named Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism at the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno.

In an edited excerpt from their new book, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams make the case for "rebooting the world".

Ben Botkin of the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho, checked the dates on a local college's bidding process and found some discrepancies.

Mike Hughlett of the Minneapolis Star Tribune takes readers into one of Cargill Inc.'s meat plants to show what efforts the company takes to prevent E.Coli outbreaks.

By Rosland Gammon

As business journalists we report and write often about the larger economy and the fortunes of companies and industries.

Try mixing a little Basel with your coverage of the Dodd-Frank act.

By Melissa Preddy

Many news outlets are doing far less accountability reporting than in the past, bad news indeed for the public. New nonprofit investigative ventures have emerged, but they can't pick up the slack by themselves.

By Mary Walton

Mary Walton (marywalton2000@yahoo.com) is a former reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her most recent book, "A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot," was published by Palgrave Macmillan in August.

Business journalists in the United States have a median salary of between $65,000 and $70,000, according to an informal survey in July and August by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW).

Undergraduate and master's students are invited to a business journalism conference in New York Oct. 21-23 called, "Getting Started in Business News." 

The business section of a newspaper still has value that you can't get elsewhere in the paper, said John Corrigan, LA Times business editor.

In the Western media business, it seems, a quiet revolution is taking place - even most conservative editions are debating a recent phenomenon - social media, and not just a growth in its popularity, but a firm place it has taken in the media world. As they do this, they are also busy incorporating new social technologies into their operations.

Lola ASKAROVA, Marketing and strategy consultant

Journalism pages of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, N.Y. (www2.gsb.Columbia.edu/ipd/journalism.html).

Covering Oil. A Reporter’s Guide to Energy and Development. Revenue Watch – Open Society Institute, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, 2005.

Paul Hemp, Ten Practical Tips for Business and Economic Reporting in Developing Economies, ICFJ, 1996.

P. Martin, Guide to Business Style and Usage, 2002.

The copyeditor's handbook : a guide for book publishing and corporate communications, with exercises and answer keys / Amy Einsohn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Associated Press reporting handbook / Jerry Schwartz. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Flower, J. Global Financial Reporting. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.

Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Metropolitan Books 2001,

Chris Roush, Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communications, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Writing About Business: The New Columbia Knight-Bagehot Guide to Economics & Business Journalism. By Terri Thompson (editor), Columbia University Press, 2001.

E. Comiskey and Charles W. Mulford, Guide to Financial Reporting and Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Jay Taparia, Understanding Financial Statements: A Journalist's Guide, Marion Street Press, 2004.

Kenneth M. Morris and Virginia B. Morris, The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing, Fireside, 1999.

Gretchen Morgensen and Campbell R. Harvey, The New York Times Dictionary of Money and Investing: The Essential A-to-Z Guide to the Language of the New Market, Times Book, 2002.

Kelly Heyboer, The One That Got Away. How did the press miss the Enron story? American Journalism Review, March 2002.

Andrew L. Yarrow. The Big Postwar Story: “New Era” of “People’s Capitalism” Dawns Where “Everybody’s Rich in the U.S.”, or So They Said. The Growth and Influence of Economic Journalism in the United States, 1945-1960.

Edward Cone, I was a Bubble Asset, or, The Rise and Fall of Biz Journalism. – Speech to Rotary Club of Greensboro, April 16, 2003.

Diana B. Henriques, News in the Age of Money. Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 2000.

На русском:

Дайана Энрикес, Новости в век денег. Журнал «Америка».

Письменная Е. Профессиональная этика в деловой прессе. М., Хроникер, 2004.

Журналы:

American Journalism Review
The Economist
Institutional Investor
Business Week 
The Banker 
Fortune
Forbes
«Эксперт»
«КIТ-Финанс»
National Business
«Экономические стратегии – Центральная Азия»
«Деловой Мир»

Организации:

Poynter Institute (Институт Пойнтера)
Society of American Business Editors and Writers  (Общество американских бизнес-редакторов и авторов)
Bank for International Settlements (Банк Международных Расчетов)
U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Федеральная Резервная Система США)
NYSE – New York Stock Exchange (Нью-Йоркская Фондовая Биржа)
NYMEX – New York Mercantile Exchange (Нью-Йорская Товарная Биржа)
LSE – London Stock Exchange (Лондонская Фондовая Биржа)
LME – London Metal Exchange (Лондонская Биржа Металлов)
World Trade Organization (Всемирная Торговая Организация)
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Организация Экономического Сотрудничества и Развития)
IMF – International Monetary Fund (МВФ – Международный Валютный Фонд)
World Bank (Всемирный Банк)
International Finance Corporation (Международная Финансовая Корпорация)

Рейтинговые агентства:

«Standard & Poor’s»
«Moody’s»
«Fitch»
OPEC – The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Организация стран-экспортеров нефти)

Газеты:

The Wall Street Journal
Financial Times