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As we look ahead to an even better 2025, we'd like to share the news stories that attracted the most attention over the past year.
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Here are the Top 10 news stories of the past year:
Global Business Journalism co-director Rick Dunham offers a concise yet detailed guide to the key elements of writing professional news stories. The three traits that top his list: truth, clarity and completeness. This is the all-time favorite story on GlobalBusinessJournalism.com.
Global Business Journalism reporter Charmaine Magbuhos of the Philippines examines the persistent problem of clogged roads in Beijing and offers some potential solutions.
Global Business Journalism reporter Justin Olsvik of Canada investigates the maple syrup cartel that keeps consumer prices artificially high and may be damaging the industry, as well.
Deepfakes are on the rise, wrote Salako Emmanuel in this piece from our partners at the International Journalists' Network (IJNet), leading to more mis- and disinformation on social media. The perpetrators behind deepfakes seek to negatively impact public knowledge during elections, mislead people about crises and more. And AI-generated multimedia makes it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction. But AI also can be part of the solution. The story offers six AI tools journalists can use to combat deepfakes.
Audiences across the globe are avoiding the news, as people report feeling anxious and powerless from an overwhelming amount of negative news, wrote Hande Edremit of our partners at IJNet. Solutions journalism aims to offer an alternative through reporting that gives agency to communities by demonstrating what works and what doesn’t to solve problems. This story details the four pillars of solutions journalism – response, outcomes, evidence and insights – and describes how you can be part of the journalistic solution.
Global Business Journalism guest lecturer Cyndi Hughes, a veteran editor and publishing entrepreneur offered Tsinghua journalism students advice on improving their editing skills. In this report by GBJ reporter Zihan Zhang, the CEO of Booktique Consulting in Austin, Texas, explains why good editing is an essential tool to improve your writing.
Attending news conferences and public speeches is a regular part of a reporter’s life. Despite the simplicity of the format, these staged events can be difficult for beginners to cover because the lead often diverges from the talking points delivered at the podium. In a lecture for Global Journalism students at Tsinghua University, Patrick Casey, a longtime American journalist who worked for the Associated Press and CGTN for decades, shared reporting tips to help beginners and veteran journalists alike to cover live events like news conferences and public speeches. GBJ reporter Gao Yifan put together six tips from Casey to help you cover these live events.
GBJ professor Rick Dunham's data journalism team published a special report on the employment challenges faced by Chinese university graduates. In this article, GBJ reporter Charmaine Magbuhos explains how the struggles of China's once-booming technology sector have hurt the job market for new college grads.
With three decades of experience as a business reporter, Mark Hamrick knows how to tell (and sell) a story in the changing media environment. Hamrick, the former president of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and the National Press Club, led coverage of global economic issues for Associated Press radio and television before joining Bankrate.com as senior economic analyst and Washington bureau chief. During a guest lecture to GBJ students, he described five skills that will help young journalists launch their careers in business reporting. Global Business Journalism reporter Shirley Li wrote the story.
GBJ reporter Maria Vula provides sage advice on how to explain stock market trends to your readers in this GBJ journalism tipsheet.
