The Reynolds Center for Business Journalism

Video games are getting harder, sometimes impossible, to preserve, academics say

Digital archivists and academics are concerned about how the changing gaming landscape will affect video game preservation ...
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Scalping hits hobbies: Expanding reporting beyond Ticketmaster

Photo by Pexels user Erik Mclean. If you’ve ever entered the gauntlet that is buying concert tickets, or noticed the price of LEGOs steadily increasing over the last decade, you’re probably familiar ...
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“Buy American”: The cost of patriotism

Last month, the President of the United States wrote on his social media site that “ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES MUST BUY AMERICAN — NO EXCUSES!” Of course, Congress has already long restricted government ...
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Blue dot fever and summer concert tours

In March, one week into a jury trial, Live Nation-Ticketmaster reached a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ), which would allow the company to avoid breaking up (pending the ...
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Africa is experiencing a colossal solar boom. Can it produce the panels, too?

The continent has imported more solar components than finished panels so far this year. Obinna Iruoma doesn’t mind sweating a bit as he serves customers at his pharmacy in hot-and-humid Lagos, Nigeria ...
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How Duolingo’s reaction to artificial intelligence illustrates the technology’s double-edged potential

Photo by Pexels user Czapp Árpád. More and more edtech businesses are incorporating artificial intelligence into their workflows and products with mixed results, but Duolingo’s move to go all in on AI ...
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As Europe welcomes Chinese solar, some see a Trojan horse

In seeking a cheaper and more independent energy system, Europe has only Chinese technology to turn to. Are they handing the country a “kill-switch?” The sun was almost at its peak above the control ...
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Prediction markets go mainstream, but is it investing or gambling?

Chioneso Bakr was so confident, she was willing to put money on it. Scrolling through an app she had found on Instagram, the 31-year-old Brooklyn musician and mother of two found a question she ...
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In an era of energy shocks, Chinese solar is the world’s default answer

As global energy markets reel from war and weather, new solar installations can’t come fast enough. When Tam Hussein looks out the window of his apartment each morning, he sees rays of early sunlight ...
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From a K-shaped economy to a K-shaped culture: How journalists can accurately cover the U.S. economy from their audience’s perspective

There have been seemingly endless posts and headlines about the growing bifurcated economy that resembles the letter K: the rich getting richer and everyone else getting poorer. But how do business ...
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New AI tools that are genuinely useful to business journalists

It is only a little over half a year since the Society for Advanced Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) last convened a panel on AI tools for journalism. But the pace of change in what generative AI ...
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Betting on the future: The boom in prediction markets

Online prediction markets that allow participants to bet on the likelihood of future events have been around for decades, but for most of that time, they remained niche exchanges like Iowa Electronic ...