Economic Reporting

The bullet points on your resume under experience should have all these qualities, EXCEPT

Which of the following are considered business and/or economic reporting beats in U.S. newsrooms?

SABEW can help you do a better job at covering business, economics, finance and related topics

Consumer spending is the same thing as retail sales

This person typically works as a consultant for other companies at a university and has experience in entrepreneurshup

When looking for expert sources for quotes for your stories, what is the biggest criteria you should use?

All of the following topics fall under the innovation beat, EXCEPT......

It's ALWAYS better for the economy for interest rates to be higher

Which one of these websites can give you great startup and VC research?

The innovation beat includes covering

Which of the following are considered business or economics beats in U.S. newsrooms?

It's OK to submit a two-page resume to a newsroom for a reporter job

When looking for your best clips to send to a potential employer, you should prioritize the ones that

When joining the staff of a business desk, your editor will expect that you know how to write an unemployment rate story

Non-seasonally adjusted unemployment figures include people who landed temporary jobs

In unemployment rate stories, who is typically a source quoted?

The pending litigation section of SEC documents are a great place to find possible story ideas

When working as a local business reporter, you'll likely cover both companies and the local economy

Which of these funding rounds represents the first time a startup received money?

Interest rates determine how much it will cost you to take out a loan

When crafting your journalism job resume, you want to make sure it always has a section for your..

A startup can have more than one founder

Which of these private companies gives you background information on an up-and-coming startup?

Which of the following is a great place to find startups?

Which of the following organizations regularly produces research and look for journalists to cover their scholarly work?

The cover letter for a journalism jobs application should be one page

Which of these topics is an issue facing the venture capital industry?

Writing a profile of a startup company involves finding out what motivated the founder(s) to start it in the first place

10-12 writing samples are the industry standard for applying to journalism jobs

The core of the innovation beat in journalism is about...

A high unemployment rate means a local economy is doing well.

Which one of these options is a place you can find business news story ideas?

Which of the following is an animal used to describe a startup?

Reading stories from other innovation reporters can help you work and hone your beat better

A low unemployment rate is a sign of a health local/state economy.

Which one of these government agencies often conduct investigations into businesses

The unemployment rate is also sometimes called...

The strongest journalism job cover letters have

There are very few innovation/startup reporters in business journalism today

A professional journalist friend or a trusted journalism professor can help pick the strongest work for your portfolio

If you have to spend hours agonizing over one aspect of your resume, which part should it be?

economics and business professors who conduct interesting research is one of many avenues for story ideas

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security releases the national unemployment rate every three months.

An angel investor is more likely to give a startup seed capital

All venture capitalists work alone and as independent funders

99.9% of journalism job seekers will not at this part to their cover letter

The "civilan labor force" is the same as saying the work force.

Most startups fail

To cover a local economy, one of the best first steps it to make a list of.....

Which of the following will likely be a person/family's largest purchase in their lifetime

Which government agency has and releases the unemployment figures?

Which economic indicator deals with how much extra money one must pay to take out a loan from a bank?

when a startup company wants to go public, it files what type of document?

Union representatives at the UAW or Teamsters also can give you great story ideas

Which of the following news publications are NOT focused primarily on business news

A high unemployment rate is a sign of a healthy local/state economy

KPI stands for

The following are great sections to add to your resume, EXCEPT

When writing an unemployment rate story, your go to sources are:

Bootstrapping is when a startup is funded by the founders' own money

Covering innovation also includes writing about what local government does to spur or hurt entrepreneurship efforts

When reporting the latest unemployment rate, you must also add what figure?

The Federal Reserve Bank sets the interest rates for the nation

Being a successful business journalist means you have to have mastered advanced mathematics and have a MBA degree

The power point slides a startup shows VCs to entice them into funding is called a what?

The best startups are only located in Silicon Valley and New York City

You can't become a really good innovation reporter without first knowing the lingo within the entrepreneurship ecosystem

One of the questions you really want to answer in a cover letter is why you want this particular job over something else

You can start your journalism career covering something like health or entertainment then switch to business news.

When applying for a newsroom reporter job, the hiring manager WILL ask for your college GPA.

The best way to present your resume for a journalism jobs is to...

Which of the following documents are NOT required in a journalism job application?

Unemployment rates are reported for the state level only

Economic reporters have to cover what's going on with every single economic indicator in the nation

GDP stands for gain domestic products