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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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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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 ...
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No credit, no problem: Auto lender Tricolor’s broken promises to vulnerable customers

A tattered flag outside a shuttered Tricolor location in Phoenix, AZ, taken in October 2025. Photo by Quỳnh Lê. In much of the United States, owning a car is a requirement to fully participate in ...
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What tighter car credit means for the U.S. economy

If you’ve lived in America long enough, you’ve seen it: a car dealership with a giant American flag billowing out front, so large it seems to pull at the clouds. For most people here, that image ...
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Reuters journalists replicate the fentanyl supply chain in groundbreaking investigation

In “Fentanyl Express,” a team of Reuters journalists spread across Mexico, the U.S. and China detailed the entire supply chain of fentanyl, by becoming buyers within it. The team acquired “precursor” ...
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What’s the cost of saving daylight?

Although it’s observed by most of the country, the practice of moving the clocks forward and back for daylight saving time (DST) has costs that have some people, including the U.S. President, calling ...