Cronkite School seeks director of business reporting bureau
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, a national leader in business journalism education, seeks to hire a Professor of Practice and Director to lead the school’s new Reynolds Business Reporting Bureau. The bureau director will manage a team of student reporters covering business and economic issues across platforms […]
Dow Jones News Fund names new managing director
Richard Levine, the president of the Dow Jones News Fund, sent out the following announcement on Monday: I am delighted to announce the appointment of Linda Shockley as managing director of the Dow Jones News Fund. Since April, Linda has led the Fund in her capacity as deputy director, a position she assumed in 1992, […]
Wharton Seminars for biz reporters accepting applications
The Wharton School is pleased to announce the Penn Wharton Public Policy Scholarship which will allow up to five business journalists 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 covers the cost of tuition, course materials, most […]
Biz reporting lab shows traditional models aren’t dead, just evolving
Mike Scutari of Inside Philanthropy examines plans by the Cronkite School of Journalism to open a business reporting lab thanks to a $1 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. Scutari writes, “Secondly, the program will serve as an incubator for aspiring journalist-students. For example, Cronkite is seeking a business journalist to serve as […]
McGraw Center names first business journalism fellows
The first recipients of the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism at the CUNY J-School were named on Monday. The new Fellowships, launched this spring by the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism, were created to support long-form investigative and enterprise stories on critical issues related to the U.S. economy and business. Nearly 70 journalists from more than […]
Cronkite School to open biz reporting bureau
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is establishing a business reporting program through a $1 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. Emily Overholt of the Phoenix Business Journal writes, “The Donald W. Reynolds Business Reporting Bureau will open in January and be the only university-based newsroom […]
Narisetti, Steffens to receive alumni award from Indiana
Indiana University journalism will honor two alumni with business journalism connections at its fourth annual Distinguished Alumni Awards celebration Sept. 13. The business journalism recipients are: Raju Narisetti, a senior vice president for strategy at News Corp., the parent of The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, leading the company’s global efforts on issues pertaining to […]
Tatge named first Baldwin fellow at South Carolina
Mark W. Tatge, a journalist who has spent more than 30 years working for the nation’s leading business reporting outlets, is the first recipient of the Baldwin Business and Financial Graduate Fellowship for Business Journalists at the University of South Carolina. The Baldwin fellowship is designed to bring a business journalist to the university’s School […]
Wharton to hold biz journalism seminar next month
The Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists, led by the Wharton School’s most prominent professors, will hold a one-day program next month in San Francisco. The program will feature Wharton professors Saikat Chaudhuri and David Robertson on “Incubating Innovation in Established Firms” and “The Balance Between Creativity and Constraints.” The Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists, now […]
Grant to help improve coverage of company earnings
The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation has awarded one of its 2014-2015 “Magic Grants” to a team of students who want to improve how business reporters cover earnings. In direct response to criticisms of the rigor of business journalism, Earnings Inspector will provide business journalists a new tool to make the […]
