McGraw Fellowship taking winter applications
Winter applications are now open for the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, an initiative launched in early 2014 at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. The McGraw Fellowships provide accomplished journalists with the resources and editorial support to do the deep reporting needed to produce distinguished stories on critical issues related to U.S. business and the global economy. The upcoming deadline to apply is Nov. 15, 2015. Each fellow […]
ICFJ offering online class on entrepreneurial and financial reporting
The International Center for Journalists will offer two online courses – one in English and one in Spanish – later this year for entrepreneurial and financial reporters. The online courses will cover topics including startups and small businesses; non-profit companies; mergers and acquisitions; executive compensation; public vs. private companies and using databases to find company […]
Ravitch program seeks to fund reporters writing about pensions and debt
The Ravitch Fiscal Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is offering grants to finance ambitious fiscal reporting projects. The new fellowship program will make at least three awards for up to $15,000 each to reporters seeking to dig deeply into budgets, debt, pensions and other post-employment obligations, tax policy and its implications […]
Business reporters invited to apply for Wharton scholarships
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvanis is inviting business journalists to apply for the Penn Wharton Public Policy Scholarship. The scholarships allow up to five business reporters whose reporting highlights public policy issues either domestically or internationally to attend the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists flagship program in Philadelphia this year. Each scholarship […]
Biz journalism professors use creative approaches to attract students
Teachers of business and economic journalism are developing creative approaches to attracting students and educating them in a field many find daunting, writes Joe Weber of the University of Nebraska in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Weber writes, “Business and economic journalism demands specialized skills that can be especially challenging to teach. Students must learn […]
National Press Foundation offers Wharton scholarships
Each year, the National Press Foundation offers two all-expense-paid fellowships to two journalists based in the U.S. for the annual October “Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists,” at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The fellowship includes full tuition, housing, most meals and round-trip transportation. The seminars offer participants an opportunity to […]
Reynolds Center director Bhatia leaving to run Cincy daily
Peter Bhatia, named earlier this year to be director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University, is leaving to become editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. He was named director of the Reynolds Center in June, replacing Micheline Maynard, who left for family reasons. Maynard had been director of the […]
Three business journalists win CUNY grants
Three veteran journalists have won grants of up to $15,000 as recipients of the third round of the McGraw Fellowships for Business Journalism. The winning projects will explore the growing threat of cyber-attacks on the international financial system, the ramifications of Nicaraguan plans to build an extensive shipping canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, […]
Reynolds Center creates visiting professors at Georgia, North Texas
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is creating visiting business journalism professorships for 2016 at the University of Georgia and the University of North Texas. The Reynolds visiting professors program has created 12 business journalism professorships at 12 different schools. The program is administered by the Reynolds Center at Arizona State University’s […]
TheStreet selects inaugural Jim Cramer fellows
The Street has launched its inaugural class for the Jim Cramer Business Journalism Fellowship. This is a six-month intensive journalism training program aimed at providing digital journalism training to early career professionals interested in business news. Jim Cramer fellows will work alongside The Street’s editorial team to create news and analysis on the markets and […]
