Category Archive for 'Business'

How a scrappy ex-farmer from Nebraska built a TV channel for rural America.

Blitstein@AOL.com

Ryan joins AOL’s Daily Finance team.

How switching health care plans hurts other members, and how to deal with it.

Child Labor in America

A RyanBlitstein.com reporting experiment on youth workers in the United States.

Patricia Woertz tried to turn the agricultural giant into a bioenergy company. It hasn’t panned out. What now?

Don’t let the restaurant industry fool you. No one looks at the nutritional information that fast-food joints paste on their walls.

An addendum to the Great Society 2.0 story about a multibillion-dollar poverty-fighting initiative in Chicago.

There’s a great essay in this month’s Columbia Journalism Review about what’s wrong with sports journalism and how to fix it. Gary Andrew Poole laments the disappearance of literary ambitions at the hands of speed and wow factor.

The Cybercrime Epidemic

America, Europe, and the developing world are losing tens of billions of dollars to a cybercrime epidemic, and big business and governments are failing to protect us. Read Ryan Blitstein’s award-winning investigative series from the San Jose Mercury News.

Ryan’s controversial SF Weekly story about the much-vaunted site’s detrimental effects on the news industry, and founder Craig Newmark’s attempts to make things better.