Name: Business coverage in the age of shrinking newsrooms
Start: 2026-05-09T12:00:00-0400
End: 2026-05-09T12:45:00-0400

Business coverage in the age of shrinking newsrooms

Saturday May 9, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT

Ormandy West, lobby level

Local newsrooms are shrinking – and in some cases disappearing. Business journalists need to identify their audience and adapt coverage to connect with readers. Learn how newsrooms are prioritizing business beats, topics and using metrics to inform coverage. We’ll discuss how to lean into real estate, transportation, consumer behavior, workplace/labor, and how to localize national stories. And we’ll show how coverage can benefit from alternate story formats and social media.

Moderators

Letrell Crittenden

Director, Center for Community-Engaged Media, Temple University

Letrell Deshan Crittenden, Ph.D., is the inaugural Director of the Center for Community-Engaged Media at Temple University. In his year at Temple, he has guided the direction of the new center, which seeks to serve the information needs of communities by working by, for and with members... Read More →

Speakers

Julie Bykowicz

Business and Enterprise Editor, The Baltimore Banner

Julie Bykowicz is the business and enterprise editor at The Baltimore Banner, where she leads a team of reporters tackling ambitious stories. She previously covered national politics, with a focus on money and influence, for The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and Bloomberg... Read More →

Cynthia Henry

business editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Cynthia Henry has served as the Philadelphia Inquirer’s business editor since 2022 and as the built environment editor since 2017. Previous roles include politics editor for the 2016 presidential election, South Jersey editor and reporter, editorial writer, and commentary edito... Read More →

James B. Nelson

business editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

James B. Nelson is business editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He also teaches business journalism and editing at Marquette University.

James has been an editor for the Journal Sentinel in business news and, before that, in local news, since the 1995 merger of the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel. During the coronavirus pandemic, he’s the team leader for economics and business coverage for the Journal Sentinel... Read More →

Saturday May 9, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Ormandy West, lobby level

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Letrell Crittenden

Julie Bykowicz

Cynthia Henry

James B. Nelson

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Letrell Crittenden

Julie Bykowicz

Cynthia Henry

James B. Nelson

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