Periodismo económico in Spain: Better or worse than the United States?
After spending a week in Spain teaching, reading and watching business journalism (periodismo económico), here are some thoughts: 1. Business journalism watchers in Spain believe that some of the country’s largest and most well-known companies get a pass from the Spanish business media for fear of antagonizing them. For example, it is the belief of […]
SABEW given grant to hold public pensions seminar
The McCormick Foundation awarded the Society of American Business Editors and Writers a $40,000 grant to conduct specialized journalism training on covering the nationally contentious issue of public pensions. Five other organizations will receive grants to host journalism training on key, timely topics through McCormick’s Specialized Reporting Institute program. McCormick and its administrative agent for […]
Schools, instructors can apply for Reynolds visiting professor program
Applications are now being accepted from universities and from individuals for the visiting business journalism professor program funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. The program will begin in the 2011-2012 academic year at four journalism schools, with four visiting professors to teach business journalism coursework during their semester in residence. Applications must be submitted […]
SABEW offers scholarships to spring conference
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will once again offer financial aid for its biggest annual event – the spring conference, to be held April 7-9 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The scholarships total $4,000 and range from $500 to $1,000 each. They will be funded from SABEW’s David Morrow Fund and […]
UNC board approves biz journalism major
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill‘s board of governors approved Friday a business journalism undergraduate major that will begin in the 2011-12 academic year. The major will be offered by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Kenan-Flagler Business School. The program is considered a niche major that will offer students […]
Knight-Bagehot program accepting applications
The Knight-Bagehot program, which trains journalists to cover business and economics, at Columbia University’s School of Journalism is now accepting applications. The fellowship is open to full-time editorial employees of newspapers, magazines, wire services, and broadcast news organizations as well as to freelance journalists. Applicants must have at least four years’ experience. There are no […]
Reynolds creates visiting business journalism professor program
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation has awarded a five-year, $1.67 million grant to Arizona State University to establish a visiting business journalism professors program. The program will create 11 visiting professorships at 11 different schools. It will be administered through the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, headquartered at the Cronkite School. The […]
Lisovicz names visiting Reynolds professor
Susan Lisovicz, who was CNN’s Wall Street reporter until earlier this year, has been named the Reynolds Visiting Professor in Business Journalism for the spring 2011 semester at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Lisovicz is the former president of the New York Financial Writers Association. In more […]
Pulitzer winning biz columnist to cut back on writing for teaching
Steven Pearlstein, the business columnist at the Washington Post who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 in the commentary category, announced at the end of his column in Wednesday’s paper that he’s going to limit his writing for the paper so that he can teach. Pearlstein writes, “Starting next fall, I’ll be the Clarence J. […]
Reynolds Center picks fellows for training
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has selected 30 fellows — 15 journalists and 15 professors — for four days of intensive study in business journalism. They will attend separate, all-expenses-paid seminars Jan. 4 to Jan. 7 at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix. Journalists in […]
