Columbia names Knight-Bagehot fellows for 2014-15
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism named 10 Knight-Bagehot Fellows in economics and business journalism for the 2014-2015 academic year. They include journalists from The Associated Press, Bloomberg News, CNN Money, Forbes, Marketplace, Thomson Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. The mid-career fellowships provide full tuition and a living stipend of $55,000 for experienced journalists […]
Applications now open for McGraw fellowships
The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism, a new initiative established at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, is now offering fellowships to accomplished business journalists starting in the spring of 2014. The aim of the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism is to support in-depth, ambitious coverage of critical […]
Reynolds Center seeks director of training
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University seeks a director of training at the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism to plan, deliver and facilitate business journalism training in the U.S. and abroad. The director will administer the daily operations of the Reynolds Center. The successful candidate […]
Penn State seeks visiting biz journalism professor
The Pennsylvania State University will host a visiting business journalism professor in spring 2015 under an Arizona State University program funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. This is the fourth year the foundation has funded business journalism professors at universities to encourage development of stronger business journalism education. The $1.67 million grant is administered […]
Why journalism schools should teach tech reporting
Tech journalist David Cohn writes for The Poynter Institute about why journalism schools should have technology reporting classes. Cohn writes, “Technology isn’t something students should learn because ‘it’s the future.’ Students can learn about technology because it will be their beat and they want to be good reporters. When students aren’t even paying attention, they’ll […]
Reynolds Center to offer online certificate in business journalism
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is offering the first online graduate certificate in business journalism through the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. Starting in August 2014, the Cronkite School will offer a five-course, 15-credit-hour certificate taught entirely online by experienced journalists. The online program […]
A biz journalist who is humble, caring and a friend who now teaches
Amal Rockn of The Daily Titan at Cal State-Fullerton profiles former Bloomberg News journalist Joe Winski, who is teaching business journalism as a Reynolds Visiting professor at the university. Rockn writes, “John McCorry, executive editor of the New York bureau for Bloomberg, worked with him from the mid-1990s until the end of his career in […]
Business editors: Most journalism graduates unprepared to cover business, economics
More than half of business editors surveyed find graduating journalism students unprepared to cover business news, according to research from a Missouri State University professor published in Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. The survey queried more than 240 business editors across the country, and received 73 responses. Of those that responded, 50.8 percent said that […]
Reynolds Center executive director Austin leaving for APME
Linda Austin, the executive director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism for the past five years, has resigned to become project manager of APME’s NewsTrain. Austin writes, “The change fits with a shift in my personal life. I am moving back east, where I am starting an international training consultancy. Stay […]
Wharton to hold one-day workshop for business journalists
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania will hold a one-day workshop in Washington, D.C., on March 11 for business journalists. The free program, will feature sessions by Wharton professors Mark Pauly and Robert Inman on The Affordable Care Act and fiscal policy and economic growth. The program will be held on March 11 […]
