FINANCIAL REPORTING 

That has Focused on Energy for 3 Decades

Jim started covering energy as a financial reporter at The Oil Daily in the spring of 1973 – six months before that price shock known as Arab I. His journalism career began 13 years earlier in the U.S. Navy, which trained him well at the Armed Forces Radio newsroom in New York City before sending him to Vietnam as Da Nang media representative for the Seabees. After the Navy, his focus became financial when Dow Jones offered the best pay.

At The Oil Daily, Jim got a taste of Washington, DC, covering FERC’s creation out of the FPC and the new regulator’s first step toward deregulation. After returning to Reuters’ New York financial operations, he started the Energy Desk in 1983 before returning to the Equities Desk to lead energy equities coverage until taking a buyout in 2001. Beyond the companies involved, this coverage featured electric utility deregulation and such energy technology as distributed generation, fuel cells and micro turbines.
The search for small news room with a short commute and clean air that accompanied a Reuters' buyout wasn’t successful, triggering a PubAux commentary on newspaper hiring practices and a turn to freelance journalism.