September is out!
Lots of good copy in September to talk about, first and foremost the temporary return of longtime correspondent Joshua Goodman (stateside now) to our pages with a great example of how to turn the big national story into a Latin Trade piece. Barrick's plans to tear up a glacier for the gold underneath is not news in BA and probably not in Chile, either, but Josh puts a great analytic spin on it by talking to the right people: The mine, of course, but also environmentalists against the plan, mining investment experts and nationals on the ground.
Departed intern Rachel Hatzipanagos, now studying in her third year at the University of Central Florida, found a nice trend story in the so-called BRIC economies: Brazil, India, Russia, China. Not so much that there is such a thing, but that companies are starting to talk about them as a coherent sales geography. An academic idea is becoming a market reality, and sourcing here makes the difference. It's not professors jabbering about what might be, but real companies making plans now for what will be.
Ecuador Correspondent María Elena Verdezoto nails a great regional trend from Quito: the rise of the three-stars. Latin American business travelers have long had to content themselves with five stars or nothing, which might be fun for the exec but is bad news for medium-sized companies trying to grow. French chain Accor saw demand, and Ma. Elena saw a story. Good work!
News Editor Forrest Jones is quickly becoming king of the one-off interview that spins into a great story later. Traveling in Mexico he lucked into a chat with a little drug company. Turns out they have a cheap, reliable antidote for scorpion stings, while across the border in the United States it takes thousands of dollars of intensive care to sort out what could have been a one-dose, go home situation. (Which begins to explain the ridiculous cost of health care in the United States.) Jones got this on the fly while traveling, then tracked his other sources down on the phone in Miami. He did something similar last year, talking with Brazilian digital-projector sellers. Moral: Great stories are everywhere, if you can see them.
Finally, Ricardo Castillo nails the coming Central America story by providing a great, source-laden review of the moves by big foreign banks in the last large, coherent market left in the region. The key here was to get bankers talking, and he does. An excellent snapshot of a five-country market that slights none and captures the moves of the biggest dollars so far.
Departed intern Rachel Hatzipanagos, now studying in her third year at the University of Central Florida, found a nice trend story in the so-called BRIC economies: Brazil, India, Russia, China. Not so much that there is such a thing, but that companies are starting to talk about them as a coherent sales geography. An academic idea is becoming a market reality, and sourcing here makes the difference. It's not professors jabbering about what might be, but real companies making plans now for what will be.
Ecuador Correspondent María Elena Verdezoto nails a great regional trend from Quito: the rise of the three-stars. Latin American business travelers have long had to content themselves with five stars or nothing, which might be fun for the exec but is bad news for medium-sized companies trying to grow. French chain Accor saw demand, and Ma. Elena saw a story. Good work!
News Editor Forrest Jones is quickly becoming king of the one-off interview that spins into a great story later. Traveling in Mexico he lucked into a chat with a little drug company. Turns out they have a cheap, reliable antidote for scorpion stings, while across the border in the United States it takes thousands of dollars of intensive care to sort out what could have been a one-dose, go home situation. (Which begins to explain the ridiculous cost of health care in the United States.) Jones got this on the fly while traveling, then tracked his other sources down on the phone in Miami. He did something similar last year, talking with Brazilian digital-projector sellers. Moral: Great stories are everywhere, if you can see them.
Finally, Ricardo Castillo nails the coming Central America story by providing a great, source-laden review of the moves by big foreign banks in the last large, coherent market left in the region. The key here was to get bankers talking, and he does. An excellent snapshot of a five-country market that slights none and captures the moves of the biggest dollars so far.
posted by Greg Brown at 8:59 AM
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Thanks for participating, Josh.
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