NPF sending two biz reporters to Wharton program

The National Press Foundation has awarded journalism fellowships for two reporters to attend the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists. Shannon Najmabadi of The Washington Post and Jorja Siemons of Bloomberg Tax will attend the Oct. 20-22, 2025, seminars in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania’s renowned Wharton School of Business. Najmabadi is a business reporter who reports on breaking news, […]

A business reporter headed back to the classroom to learn business

Nathan Rubbelke, a reporter for the St. Louis Business Journal, writes about entering the Knight-Bagehot program at Columbia University and what he hopes to learn. Rubbelke writes, “Beginning next week, I’ll be a member of the 2025-26 class of the Knight-Bagehot fellowship, which brings together 10 mid-career business journalists to strengthen their understanding of business concepts. As […]

South Carolina seeks a biz journalism professor

South Carolina’s leading journalism school seeks an innovator and proven leader to contribute to its growing business and financial journalism initiative. The School of Journalism and Mass Communications, housed in the College of Information and Communications at the University of South Carolina, invites applications for a nine-month professional-track faculty position as the Baldwin Teaching Fellow […]

WSJ’s Volz named Kiplinger fellow

Wall Street Journal reporter Dustin Volz has been named a fellow in The Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio University. The journalists will be on campus March 24-28 and have residence at the Ohio University Inn while attending workshops on artificial intelligence in Schoonover Center and Alden Library. “This fellowship in AI produced a record […]

New fund to help Missouri biz journalism students

Family and friends of Randall Smith, the Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism, are raising money for a fund that will support the Missouri News Network’s digital business news outlet, Missouri Business Alert. Austin Fitzgerald of the School writes, “The fund will also help students access opportunities […]

Loyola of Maryland creates biz journalism minor

The economics and communication departments at Loyola of Maryland have created an interdisciplinary minor for business journalism. Abby Hill of The Greyhound writes, “As a part of the communication department, Professor Rob Terry teaches the business journalism course here at Loyola. Prof. Terry has worked at the Baltimore Business Journal, Washington Business Journal, and a business […]

CJF, Globe and Mail announce Black business journalism fellowship

The Canadian Journalism Foundation announced a new Black Business Journalism Fellowship, in partnership with The Globe and Mail. The CJF-Globe and Mail Black Business Journalism Fellowship is the latest expansion to the CJF’s Black Journalism Fellowship Program, launched in 2021 to amplify Black voices, improve coverage of Black issues in the news and cultivate future Black […]

Knight-Bagehot seeks applicants for 24-25

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia University offers journalists the opportunity to enhance their understanding and knowledge of business, economics, finance and technology, as well as gain a strong understanding of the business of journalism itself. Fellows spend two semesters at Columbia Journalism School and take most of their classes at Columbia Business School. The fellows […]

NYU students with business journalism internships for Summer 2023

These are the summer internship placements for the students in the Business and Economics Reporting master’s program at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute: William Bennett, Forbes Diana Bravo, Bloomberg News Silin Chen, Financial Times Yifan Du, Reuters Douglas Gorman, Big Technology Rachel Nostrant, Reuters Segun Olakoyenikan, Forbes Yun Park, Bloomberg Industry Group […]

Columbia names energy journalism fellows

The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs announced this year’s cohort of journalists selected for the 2023 Energy Journalism Fellows program, which will be held on Columbia University’s campus in New York City from June 20-23. The Energy Journalism Fellows program, formerly known as the Energy Journalism […]