Tag: Educational

Reynolds Center names fellows

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalismhas selected 31 fellows – 16 journalists and 15 professors – for four days of intensive study in business journalism. The fellows will attend separate, all-expenses-paid seminars Jan. 2-5 at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix.  Journalists in the Strictly […]

Knight-Bagehot program increases stipends

The Knight-Bagehot business journalism program at the Journalism School at Columbia University is now accepting applications and has increased the stipend to $55,000. It previously was $50,000. The fellowship is open to full-time editorial employees of newspapers, magazines, wire services, and broadcast news organizations as well as to freelance journalists. Applicants must have at least […]

New guidebook helps biz journalists cover corporate governance

A newly released new guidebook shows reporters how to better cover the business world and ways to spot trends in companies’ financial activities that could lead to more impactful stories. Daniel Guerra of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas writes, “Written by the International Center for Journalists and […]

SABEW accepting applications for business of health care seminar

Applications from journalists are now being accepted for a two-day fellowship program on the business aspects of health care. The Commonwealth Fund awarded a grant to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers to develop a two-day symposium in New York City. The session, which will be limited to 14 journalists selected through an […]

Tatge joins SABEW board

Mark Tatge, Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University, has been named to the Board of Governors of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. An association of business journalists, SABEW was formed in 1964 to promote superior coverage of business and economic events and issues. Tatge came to DePauw […]

Washington state paper to get biz news content from college students

Gordon Oliver, the business editor of The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash., writes about how the business section is now getting content from journalism students at nearby Clark College. Oliver writes, “Here’s our arrangement: The Independent’s writers will report and write business-related stories that will be of interest to readers of both newspapers. We’ll edit those […]

Cover private companies? Attend this meeting

Business journalists are invited to attend a workshop in New York on recent revenue, profitability and employment data for private companies. The session, which is hosted by Sageworks, will be held Oct. 4 at the Harvard Club from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. The speakers will include Brian Hamilton, the CEO of Sageworks, which does […]

Reynolds Foundation gives $8 million for biz journalism education

The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation has donated $8.21 million to Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism to improve news coverage of complex business and economic issues. Angela Gonzales of the Phoenix Business Journal writes, “Of the $8.21 million going to ASU, $6.21 million will continue the work of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center […]

Calame to teach biz journalism at Missouri

Barney Calame, a longtime reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal and former president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, will teach business journalism at the University of Missouri as a visiting professor this semester. A story on the school’s website states, “In 2011 Calame received an honorary doctorate from the […]