Mark Tatge
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Mark W. Tatge is an American
journalist
. He was a senior editor at Forbes
magazine, a staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and an investigative reporter in the Statehouse Bureau of Cleveland's The Plain Dealer.
Tatge, spent three decades as a journalist before joining E. W. Scripps School of Journalism
as a visiting professor and executive-in-residence.http://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/?m=20070809. Scripps is a top-10 journalism school with 1,000 students located in southeastern Ohio. The school is consistently ranked among the best journalism programs in the nation. Under Tatge's direction, the Scripps School offered its first classes in business and economics journalism beginning in 2007. The program has since expanded, producing graduates who are now working professionally in print, digital and broadcast media nationally. Tatge teaches teaches print and online journalism, media literacy, media law and business and economics writing. In addition, Tatge worked closely with the journalism and business schools on curriculum development, recruitment and fundraising issues.
Tatge has taught in both the journalism and business schools at OU. He is a guest commentator on national news shows, including CNBC
, ABC American Broadcasting Company
, MSNBC
, National Public Radio, Fox Business Network
, PBS station WOUB-TV
, and Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW
.http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Mark+Tatge&emb=0&aq=f# Tatge previously worked as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism
where he taught graduate journalism students about business, economics and finance. in 2010, Tatge published his first book, the New York Times Reader: Business and Economics.
Tatge was previously a Senior Editor and Bureau Chief of Forbes
magazine’s Midwest Bureau, where he oversaw content produced for the magazine, Forbes.com and the Forbes Video Network. He was a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal
, an investigative reporter in The Plain Dealer statehouse bureau, and a staff writer for both the The Dallas Morning News
and The Denver Post
.
, the descendant of German and Irish immigrants who grew up on the north side of Chicago in the Portage Park neighborhood. His father was a talented research chemist who had developed and patented new ink and printing processes for the two Chicago companies he worked for - Uarco http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/1997/12/01/daily1.html and Black Products. Tatge attended Catholic schools, including St. Viator High School
in suburban Arlington Heights
, Ill.
Tatge graduated from high school and enrolled in Western Illinois University
, studying social work. He planned to get a job after graduation working in the criminal justice system with juvenile delinquents. On the side, Tatge wrote for his school newspaper the Western Courier http://www.westerncourier.com/ and WIU's Sports Information office. Tatge also freelanced for daily newspapers while at WIU, including the Galesburg Register Mail http://www.galesburg.com/ and Peoria Journal Star
. Upon graduation, Tatge went to work running a small weekly and a small daily newspaper in Wisconsin. He moved up the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison where he attended graduate school at the UW-Madison while working on the night copy desk.
Tatge is a past Kiplinger Fellow in Public Affairs Reporting http://www.kiplingerprogram.org/kiplinger_program/index.html at Ohio State University
where he completed his master's degree in journalism. The fellowship was named after W.M. Kiplinger, W. M. Kiplinger
editor and founder of the Kiplinger
Letter. Kiplinger was one of OSU's first journalism graduates (1912) and he also founded Kiplinger's Personal Finance http://www.kiplinger.com/. Following in Kiplinger's footsteps, Tatge found that found that economics, not politics, was more fascinating. Upon graduation, Tatge embarked upon a career in business journalism. Tatge went on to complete his MBA at Ohio University
. He holds a bachelor's degree from Western Illinois University
.
Tatge is chief executive of an editorial consulting/content management company, DeadlineReporter LLC.
during the 1980s. Tatge chronicled how lax federal regulations allowed bank executives to speculate on land deals with depositors' money. The funny money deals sank Silverado Banking. The thrift collapsed in 1988, costing taxpayers $1.3 billion.http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/1997/07/28/newscolumn1.html
At The Plain Dealer, Tatge exposed how teachers, police officers and fire fighters facing felony charges and dismissal would file disability claims with Ohio pension funds, including the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund.http://www.op-f.org/ The officers would then retire with tax-supported disability pensions. In one case, a high school teacher filed for disability after being caught having sex with one of his students. The stories led to an investigation and major changes in Ohio retirement law.
The Ohio Society of Professional Journalists' Honored Tatge with the First Amendment Award. The Associated Press Managing Editors named Tatge the Best Business Writer in Texas.
At Forbes, Tatge wrote profiles and interviewed chief executives at many top 100 U.S. corporations, including Boeing
, Motorola
, United Airlines
, 3M
, AT&T
, US Airways
, Delta Air Lines
, Best Buy
and FedEx
. He was the lead writer on the magazine's Best Places for Business http://search.forbes.com/search/find?tab=searchtabgeneraldark&MT=best+places+for+business+and+careers and contributed to Forbes 400 Richest Americans.http://search.forbes.com/search/find?tab=searchtabgeneraldark&MT=rich+list
Tatge's work has appeared in the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News
, Chicago Tribune
and The Washington Post
.
endowed by the foundation established by the E.W. Scripps Co.. E.W. Scripps School of Journalism Director Thomas Hodson asked Tatge to join OU's faculty with the goal of developing a business writing program. Over the course of the next three quarters, Tatge wrote and received approval for a curriculum, put together a plan to raise money for an endowed chair in business journalism and he solicited donations on the school's behalf. Additionally, he worked closely with faculty members to help re-write the school's curriculum, giving it a more digital focus as OU moves from quarters to semesters.
The program Tatge initiated enrolled its first students in the winter of 2008-09. Students were given specialized training in
areas of accounting, finance, markets, the economy and trained how to use a Bloomberg
terminal. As part of plan Tatge devised
to help promote the program, he began appearing on the nationally televised Fox Business Network
founded by OU alumnus Roger Ailes
. Graduates of OU's business journalism program are now working as business journalists in New York
and Chicago
.
Tatge initiated a partnership with OU College of Business where he taught courses jointly to students from both the College of Business http://www.cob.ohio.edu/isms/cob.aspx and the College of Communication http://www.scrippscollege.ohio.edu/. business and communication. Tatge developed and taught courses in media management, magazine writing, business writing,http://bizjournalism.blogspot.com/ online reporting, media literacy, media economics, information gathering and media law.http://nolibel.wordpress.com/
In 2011, Tatge was named Eugene S. Pulliam
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=27071 at DePauw University
http://www.depauw.edu/. Tatge will advise media fellows at the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media http://www.depauw.edu/univ/pccm/index.asp where students learn firsthand about journalism by working at DePauw's newspaper, radio and TV stations. Tatge teaches a mix of multimedia, business, journalism and media studies courses and lectures on the impact of technology on journalism and the public interest. Tatge is frequently quoted in popular media about contemporary media issues.http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0714/How-the-BSkyB-setback-to-Rupert-Murdoch-will-affect-his-legacy-in-the-US
The Pulliam Visiting Professorship was created in 2000 with a gift from the family of Eugene S. Pulliam, a 1935 graduate of DePauw and former publisher of the Indianapolis Star and News, "to support and advance DePauw's strong tradition of graduating men and women who become highly successful and significant journalists."
, a unit of Sage Publications
. The book offers a new approach in teaching students how to write about economics and business subjects. Stories are broken down into their essential elements with paragraph by paragraph diagrams. Students are essentially given a road map on how to write a New York Times story. The volume also offers interviews with New York Times writers who share insights into how the report and write great stories.
Tatge is a contributing editor to: "The Big Chill: Investigative Reporting in the Current Media Environment," Iowa State University Press, 2000. The book examines the causes behind the demise of investigative reporting.http://www.amazon.com/dp/0813828058
Tatge has been interviewed or his reporting has been quoted in a number of books:
"Going Up the River, Travels in a Prison Nation," by Joseph T. Hallinan, Random House, New York, NY, (2003).http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812968441
"Silverado: Neil Bush and the Savings and Loan Scandal," by Steven K. Wilmsen, National Press Books, (1991). http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Silverado+Neil+Bush&x=0&y=0
"The Heroic Media Attorney is in Decline," by Willie Stern, (2003).
"Storming the Statehouse, Running For Governor with Ann Richards and Dianne Feinstein," by Celia Morris, Scribner, (1992). http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Storming+the+Statehouse&x=0&y=0
“As a Grocer, Wal-Mart is No Category Killer,” Forbes, June 30, 2003," this story appears in "Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit," By Philip Kotler, Wiley, 2010.http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470598824
Cintas' business practices, (2007).
• Society of Professional Journalists, Best Business Coverage in Ohio, "Secrets of a Deal: The Failed Attempt to Sell Blue
Cross and Blue Shield," corruption at the state's largest health insurer, (1997).
• First Amendment Award, Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, (1997).
• Associated Press, Best Ohio Business Stories of Year, (1997).
• Society of Professional Journalists, Best Project/Series, (1996).
• Washington Monthly Journalism Award, "Pension Blues," series detailing how taxpayers foot the bill for corrupt police
officers, (May 1995).
• Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporting, "The Supreme Pain," a story looking at the ethical lapses of
an Ohio Supreme Court justice, (1993).
• Associated Press Managing Editors, Best Business Writer in Texas, "Thompsons Profited as Business Empire Crumbled,"
how the 7-Eleven chain founders squandered a fortune, (1991).
• Texas Headliners Foundation Charles E. Green Newspaper Achievement Award, Governmental Affairs, analysis of
gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams' business empire, (1990).
• Morton Margolin Prize for Distinguished Business Reporting
, "Silverado Banking stock deals hook builders," the rise and
fall of a high-flying savings and loan, (1988).
• Associated Press Managing Editors, Best Business Writer in Colorado, "Con artist worms way into bank vaults," (1988).
Forbes Magazine, Michael Williamson, et al., Plaintiffs v. Recovery Limited Partnership, 2:06-cv-0292, 2006 U.S. Dist. Lexis 86902. Won an effort to unseal a case seeking a financial accounting of gold recovered from sunken ship.
United States
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journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
. He was a senior editor at Forbes
Forbes
Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
magazine, a staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and an investigative reporter in the Statehouse Bureau of Cleveland's The Plain Dealer.
Tatge, spent three decades as a journalist before joining E. W. Scripps School of Journalism
E. W. Scripps School of Journalism
The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, widely considered one of the best journalism schools in the country, is part of the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University....
as a visiting professor and executive-in-residence.http://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/?m=20070809. Scripps is a top-10 journalism school with 1,000 students located in southeastern Ohio. The school is consistently ranked among the best journalism programs in the nation. Under Tatge's direction, the Scripps School offered its first classes in business and economics journalism beginning in 2007. The program has since expanded, producing graduates who are now working professionally in print, digital and broadcast media nationally. Tatge teaches teaches print and online journalism, media literacy, media law and business and economics writing. In addition, Tatge worked closely with the journalism and business schools on curriculum development, recruitment and fundraising issues.
Tatge has taught in both the journalism and business schools at OU. He is a guest commentator on national news shows, including CNBC
CNBC
CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...
, ABC American Broadcasting Company
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
, MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
, National Public Radio, Fox Business Network
Fox Business Network
Fox Business Network is an American cable news and satellite news television channel that began broadcasting on October 15, 2007. It is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation...
, PBS station WOUB-TV
WOUB-TV
WOUB-TV channel 20 is a Public Broadcasting Service member Public television station at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. WOUB-TV's programming can be seen in southeastern Ohio on digital channel 27...
, and Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW
WTTW
WTTW channel 11 is one of three Public Broadcasting Service member public television stations serving the Chicago, Illinois market; the others are WYCC and WYIN. WTTW began broadcasting on September 6, 1955 and it is owned and operated by Window to the World Communications, Inc., a not-for-profit...
.http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Mark+Tatge&emb=0&aq=f# Tatge previously worked as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism
Medill School of Journalism
The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is a constituent school of Northwestern University which offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. It has consistently been one of the top-ranked schools in Journalism in the United States...
where he taught graduate journalism students about business, economics and finance. in 2010, Tatge published his first book, the New York Times Reader: Business and Economics.
Tatge was previously a Senior Editor and Bureau Chief of Forbes
Forbes
Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
magazine’s Midwest Bureau, where he oversaw content produced for the magazine, Forbes.com and the Forbes Video Network. He was a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, an investigative reporter in The Plain Dealer statehouse bureau, and a staff writer for both the The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with a circulation of 264,459 subscribers, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in September 2010...
and The Denver Post
The Denver Post
-Ownership:The Post is the flagship newspaper of MediaNews Group Inc., founded in 1983 by William Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder. MediaNews is today one of the nation's largest newspaper chains, publisher of 61 daily newspapers and more than 120 non-daily publications in 13 states. MediaNews...
.
Early life
Mark Tatge was born in ChicagoChicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, the descendant of German and Irish immigrants who grew up on the north side of Chicago in the Portage Park neighborhood. His father was a talented research chemist who had developed and patented new ink and printing processes for the two Chicago companies he worked for - Uarco http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/1997/12/01/daily1.html and Black Products. Tatge attended Catholic schools, including St. Viator High School
St. Viator High School
St. Viator High School is a Roman Catholic co-educational secondary school in Arlington Heights, Illinois. It serves as a college preparatory school with approximately eleven-hundred students from the mid- and outer-northwest suburbs of Chicago...
in suburban Arlington Heights
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Arlington Heights is a village in Cook and Lake counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it lies about 25 miles northwest of the city's downtown. The population was 75,101 at the 2010 census....
, Ill.
Tatge graduated from high school and enrolled in Western Illinois University
Western Illinois University
Western Illinois University is a public university founded in 1899 as Western Illinois State Normal School. Like many similar institutions of the time, Western Illinois State Normal School focused on teacher training for its relatively small body of students. As the normal school grew, it became...
, studying social work. He planned to get a job after graduation working in the criminal justice system with juvenile delinquents. On the side, Tatge wrote for his school newspaper the Western Courier http://www.westerncourier.com/ and WIU's Sports Information office. Tatge also freelanced for daily newspapers while at WIU, including the Galesburg Register Mail http://www.galesburg.com/ and Peoria Journal Star
Peoria Journal Star
The Journal Star is the major daily newspaper for Peoria, Illinois and surrounding area. First owned locally, then employee-owned, it became a Copley-owned entity in 1996. In 2007, the paper was sold to Fairport, New York-based GateHouse Media.-History:...
. Upon graduation, Tatge went to work running a small weekly and a small daily newspaper in Wisconsin. He moved up the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison where he attended graduate school at the UW-Madison while working on the night copy desk.
Tatge is a past Kiplinger Fellow in Public Affairs Reporting http://www.kiplingerprogram.org/kiplinger_program/index.html at Ohio State University
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
where he completed his master's degree in journalism. The fellowship was named after W.M. Kiplinger, W. M. Kiplinger
W. M. Kiplinger
W. M. Kiplinger was best known as the founder of Kiplinger, a publishing company located in Washington, D.C.. He attended Ohio State University from 1908 until 1912 and was a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1916 and started the company Kiplinger by 1920.Kiplinger's...
editor and founder of the Kiplinger
Kiplinger
Kiplinger is a Washington, D.C.-based publisher of business forecasts and personal finance advice, available in print, online, audio, video and software products ....
Letter. Kiplinger was one of OSU's first journalism graduates (1912) and he also founded Kiplinger's Personal Finance http://www.kiplinger.com/. Following in Kiplinger's footsteps, Tatge found that found that economics, not politics, was more fascinating. Upon graduation, Tatge embarked upon a career in business journalism. Tatge went on to complete his MBA at Ohio University
Ohio University
Ohio University is a public university located in the Midwestern United States in Athens, Ohio, situated on an campus...
. He holds a bachelor's degree from Western Illinois University
Western Illinois University
Western Illinois University is a public university founded in 1899 as Western Illinois State Normal School. Like many similar institutions of the time, Western Illinois State Normal School focused on teacher training for its relatively small body of students. As the normal school grew, it became...
.
Tatge is chief executive of an editorial consulting/content management company, DeadlineReporter LLC.
Work as an investigative reporter
Tatge has written extensively about corporate misdeeds, starting with his coverage of the savings and loan scandal in Colorado Savings and loan crisisSavings and Loan crisis
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s was the failure of about 747 out of the 3,234 savings and loan associations in the United States...
during the 1980s. Tatge chronicled how lax federal regulations allowed bank executives to speculate on land deals with depositors' money. The funny money deals sank Silverado Banking. The thrift collapsed in 1988, costing taxpayers $1.3 billion.http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/1997/07/28/newscolumn1.html
At The Plain Dealer, Tatge exposed how teachers, police officers and fire fighters facing felony charges and dismissal would file disability claims with Ohio pension funds, including the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund.http://www.op-f.org/ The officers would then retire with tax-supported disability pensions. In one case, a high school teacher filed for disability after being caught having sex with one of his students. The stories led to an investigation and major changes in Ohio retirement law.
The Ohio Society of Professional Journalists' Honored Tatge with the First Amendment Award. The Associated Press Managing Editors named Tatge the Best Business Writer in Texas.
At Forbes, Tatge wrote profiles and interviewed chief executives at many top 100 U.S. corporations, including Boeing
Boeing
The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
, Motorola
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
, United Airlines
United Airlines
United Air Lines, Inc., is the world's largest airline with 86,852 employees United Air Lines, Inc., is the world's largest airline with 86,852 employees United Air Lines, Inc., is the world's largest airline with 86,852 employees (which includes the entire holding company United Continental...
, 3M
3M
3M Company , formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in Maplewood, Minnesota, United States....
, AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
, US Airways
US Airways
US Airways, Inc. is a major airline based in the U.S. city of Tempe, Arizona. The airline is an operating unit of US Airways Group and is the sixth largest airline by traffic and eighth largest by market value in the country....
, Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines, Inc. is a major airline based in the United States and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The airline operates an extensive domestic and international network serving all continents except Antarctica. Delta and its subsidiaries operate over 4,000 flights every day...
, Best Buy
Best Buy
Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American specialty retailer of consumer electronics in the United States, accounting for 19% of the market. It also operates in Mexico, Canada & China. The company's subsidiaries include Geek Squad, CinemaNow, Magnolia Audio Video, Pacific Sales, and, in Canada operates...
and FedEx
FedEx
FedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee...
. He was the lead writer on the magazine's Best Places for Business http://search.forbes.com/search/find?tab=searchtabgeneraldark&MT=best+places+for+business+and+careers and contributed to Forbes 400 Richest Americans.http://search.forbes.com/search/find?tab=searchtabgeneraldark&MT=rich+list
Tatge's work has appeared in the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News
The San Jose Mercury News is a daily newspaper in San Jose, California. On its web site, however, it calls itself Silicon Valley Mercury News. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group...
, Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
and The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
.
Academic career
Tatge was awarded a visiting professorship at Ohio UniversityOhio University
Ohio University is a public university located in the Midwestern United States in Athens, Ohio, situated on an campus...
endowed by the foundation established by the E.W. Scripps Co.. E.W. Scripps School of Journalism Director Thomas Hodson asked Tatge to join OU's faculty with the goal of developing a business writing program. Over the course of the next three quarters, Tatge wrote and received approval for a curriculum, put together a plan to raise money for an endowed chair in business journalism and he solicited donations on the school's behalf. Additionally, he worked closely with faculty members to help re-write the school's curriculum, giving it a more digital focus as OU moves from quarters to semesters.
The program Tatge initiated enrolled its first students in the winter of 2008-09. Students were given specialized training in
areas of accounting, finance, markets, the economy and trained how to use a Bloomberg
Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg makes up one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenue of $6.9 billion. Bloomberg L.P...
terminal. As part of plan Tatge devised
to help promote the program, he began appearing on the nationally televised Fox Business Network
Fox Business Network
Fox Business Network is an American cable news and satellite news television channel that began broadcasting on October 15, 2007. It is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation...
founded by OU alumnus Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes
Roger Eugene Ailes is president of Fox News Channel, chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W...
. Graduates of OU's business journalism program are now working as business journalists in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
and Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
.
Tatge initiated a partnership with OU College of Business where he taught courses jointly to students from both the College of Business http://www.cob.ohio.edu/isms/cob.aspx and the College of Communication http://www.scrippscollege.ohio.edu/. business and communication. Tatge developed and taught courses in media management, magazine writing, business writing,http://bizjournalism.blogspot.com/ online reporting, media literacy, media economics, information gathering and media law.http://nolibel.wordpress.com/
In 2011, Tatge was named Eugene S. Pulliam
Eugene S. Pulliam
Eugene Smith Pulliam was the publisher of the Indianapolis Star and the Indianapolis News from 1975 until his death....
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=27071 at DePauw University
DePauw University
DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, USA, is a private, national liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the Great Lakes Colleges Association...
http://www.depauw.edu/. Tatge will advise media fellows at the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media http://www.depauw.edu/univ/pccm/index.asp where students learn firsthand about journalism by working at DePauw's newspaper, radio and TV stations. Tatge teaches a mix of multimedia, business, journalism and media studies courses and lectures on the impact of technology on journalism and the public interest. Tatge is frequently quoted in popular media about contemporary media issues.http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0714/How-the-BSkyB-setback-to-Rupert-Murdoch-will-affect-his-legacy-in-the-US
The Pulliam Visiting Professorship was created in 2000 with a gift from the family of Eugene S. Pulliam, a 1935 graduate of DePauw and former publisher of the Indianapolis Star and News, "to support and advance DePauw's strong tradition of graduating men and women who become highly successful and significant journalists."
Books and media
Tatge is the author of The New York Times Reader: Business and Economics, http://www.cqpress.com/product/NYT-Business.htmlhttp://scrippsjschool.org/news/scrippsNotes.php?id=1410 published by CQ PressCQ Press
CQ Press, a division of SAGE Publications, publishes books, directories, periodicals, and electronic products on American government and politics, with an expanding list in international affairs and journalism and mass communication....
, a unit of Sage Publications
SAGE Publications
SAGE is an independent academic publisher of books, journals, and electronic products in the humanities and social sciences and the scientific, technical, and medical fields. SAGE was founded in 1965 by George McCune and Sara Miller McCune. The company is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California,...
. The book offers a new approach in teaching students how to write about economics and business subjects. Stories are broken down into their essential elements with paragraph by paragraph diagrams. Students are essentially given a road map on how to write a New York Times story. The volume also offers interviews with New York Times writers who share insights into how the report and write great stories.
Tatge is a contributing editor to: "The Big Chill: Investigative Reporting in the Current Media Environment," Iowa State University Press, 2000. The book examines the causes behind the demise of investigative reporting.http://www.amazon.com/dp/0813828058
Tatge has been interviewed or his reporting has been quoted in a number of books:
"Going Up the River, Travels in a Prison Nation," by Joseph T. Hallinan, Random House, New York, NY, (2003).http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812968441
"Silverado: Neil Bush and the Savings and Loan Scandal," by Steven K. Wilmsen, National Press Books, (1991). http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Silverado+Neil+Bush&x=0&y=0
"The Heroic Media Attorney is in Decline," by Willie Stern, (2003).
"Storming the Statehouse, Running For Governor with Ann Richards and Dianne Feinstein," by Celia Morris, Scribner, (1992). http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Storming+the+Statehouse&x=0&y=0
“As a Grocer, Wal-Mart is No Category Killer,” Forbes, June 30, 2003," this story appears in "Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit," By Philip Kotler, Wiley, 2010.http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470598824
Awards
• Chicago Headline Club, Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism, "Dirty Laundry," an investigation of laundry giantCintas' business practices, (2007).
• Society of Professional Journalists, Best Business Coverage in Ohio, "Secrets of a Deal: The Failed Attempt to Sell Blue
Cross and Blue Shield," corruption at the state's largest health insurer, (1997).
• First Amendment Award, Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, (1997).
• Associated Press, Best Ohio Business Stories of Year, (1997).
• Society of Professional Journalists, Best Project/Series, (1996).
• Washington Monthly Journalism Award, "Pension Blues," series detailing how taxpayers foot the bill for corrupt police
officers, (May 1995).
• Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporting, "The Supreme Pain," a story looking at the ethical lapses of
an Ohio Supreme Court justice, (1993).
• Associated Press Managing Editors, Best Business Writer in Texas, "Thompsons Profited as Business Empire Crumbled,"
how the 7-Eleven chain founders squandered a fortune, (1991).
• Texas Headliners Foundation Charles E. Green Newspaper Achievement Award, Governmental Affairs, analysis of
gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams' business empire, (1990).
• Morton Margolin Prize for Distinguished Business Reporting
Morton Margolin Prize for Distinguished Business Reporting
The Morton Margolin Prize for Distinguished Business Reporting is an award for reporting in business journalism published in a Colorado newspaper or magazine...
, "Silverado Banking stock deals hook builders," the rise and
fall of a high-flying savings and loan, (1988).
• Associated Press Managing Editors, Best Business Writer in Colorado, "Con artist worms way into bank vaults," (1988).
Public Records Initiatives
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Plain Dealer v. Ohio Department of Insurance, 80 Ohio St. 3d 513, 96-2247, Won a mandamus action compelling state regulators to disclose documents sought as a matter of public interest.Forbes Magazine, Michael Williamson, et al., Plaintiffs v. Recovery Limited Partnership, 2:06-cv-0292, 2006 U.S. Dist. Lexis 86902. Won an effort to unseal a case seeking a financial accounting of gold recovered from sunken ship.
External links
- E.W. Scripps School of Journalism
- BizReporting blog
- Media Law blog
- Covering Business: An Introduction, Learning the basics of covering business, Reynolds Center for Business Journalism
- Learning the Business Basics with Mark Tatge's new book,Reynolds Center for Business Journalism
- Using Multimedia to Enhance Teaching, Reynolds Center for Business Journalism
- Drop the dress shoes and wear slippers, The Wall Street Journal
- The Harder Side of Sears, Forbes
- A Leaky Affair, Masco a dubious proposition, Forbes
- Firestorm, Exploding Microwave Ovens and Combustible Dishwashers at Whirlpool, Forbes
- How Wendy's Founder Dave Thomas and others lost $91 million, Forbes
- Frank Wobst Once Ran Huntington like a Military Machine, now it looks like his piggy ATM, Forbes
- Are Airlines Really Safe Enough, Forbes
- United comes Untied, Forbes
- TruServ, the largest hardware co-op in the U.S., has burned its members-and set fire to itself, Forbes
- Vegetarian Foods Plant Stronger Sales, No Signs of Slowing Down, MSNBC, Sept. 17, 2004, Forbes