Reynolds Center for biz journalism seeks new executive director
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is looking for a new executive director to run its programs. The current executive director, Andrew Leckey, is becoming president of the center and the new Reynolds chair in business journalism at Arizona State University, where the center is located. The ad for the position states, “The Donald […]
Reynolds Center to look abroad
Adam Sneed of the ASU WebDevil writes Friday about the $5.3 million grant given to Arizona State University’s Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and notes that some of that money will be used to foster relationships with international business journalists. Sneed interviewed Andrew Leckey, the head of the Reynolds Center. Sneed writes, […]
Reynolds Foundation gives $5.3 million to biz journalism education
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation announced today two grants totaling $5,336,360 to make Arizona State University a global hub of business journalism education by endowing a faculty chair and expanding the work of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. With the grant, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication will […]
Financial journalism needs to reassess its role
Financial journalists and others involved in the process or reporting business and economics news need to reassess the roles and responsibilities of business journalism, according to a study released this week from the London School of Economics. The study, done by Damian Tambini, concludes “Those that seek a more responsible financial journalism should open a […]
Wall Street Journal, NYU offer fellowship to two Asian journalists
Katherine Pither of Media Helping Media notes that The Wall Street Journal and the journalism program at New York University are once again offering two fellowships to Asian reporters to learn business journalism. Pither writes, “The fellowship covers tuition expenses and fees for two of the three semesters of the 16-month programme, as well as […]
Biz journalists, educators chosen for Reynolds Center seminars
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism awarded 14 fellowships to its weeklong “Strictly Financials Seminar” for working journalists and 11 fellowships to the “Business Journalism Professors Seminar.” Both programs will be held Jan. 6 to Jan. 9 in Phoenix, Ariz. Educators and journalists from around the nation were selected from a large […]
Send your used business journalism textbooks to China
When we last heard from Gregg Fields, the former Miami Herald business journalist, he was going to China to teach business journalism at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Fields is now near the end of teaching his first semester, and he says there’s a dire need by his students for business journalism textbooks in English. “Basically, the […]
SABEW to hold call Thursday on writing personal finance stories
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a conference call Thursday on personal finance stories to write now during the Wall Street turmoil. The call will be held at noon Eastern Standard Time. Panelists on the call will be Gail MarksJarvis, the personal finance and markets columnist at the Chicago Tribune; John […]
Fellowships available for business journalism training
Fellowships for two weeklong business journalism training seminars Jan. 6 to Jan. 9, 2009, in Phoenix, Ariz., are available from the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. The “Strictly Financials Seminarâ€? gives seasoned journalists an opportunity for in-depth study of financials and accounting, while the “Business Journalism Professors Seminarâ€? is designed to train […]
Suburban papers to hold conference call on covering financial crisis
The Suburban Newspapers of America will hold a conference call Monday for reporters and editors interested in learning how to cover the current financial crisis better. The call will be at 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Dr. Edward Leamer, director of the internationally recognized UCLA Anderson Forecast, is the featured speaker for the briefing and […]
