Sitting in on a business journalism class
Jim Offner, the business editor of the Waterloo Courier, writes Sunday about what happened when he sat in on a business reporting class at the University of North Iowa taught by Christopher Martin. Offner writes, “It’s a major part of their job in the course, after all, to follow events in the business sector with […]
Reynolds Center names business journalism interns
Eight students from universities across the country have been selected for 10-week business journalism internships at major media outlets in summer 2009, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced today. The students were selected by the host organizations in conjunction with the Reynolds Center, which funds the internships designed to help improve […]
SABEW to hold call on re-inventing business coverage
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a teleconference next Wednesday on re-inventing business coverage during a time of newsroom cutbacks. The call will attempt to provide help on ensuring that business journalism gets the resources it needs in an era of shrinking newsholes and newsroom budgets, and it will provide examples […]
Reynolds Center for biz journalism seeks new executive director
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is looking for a new executive director to run its programs. The current executive director, Andrew Leckey, is becoming president of the center and the new Reynolds chair in business journalism at Arizona State University, where the center is located. The ad for the position states, “The Donald […]
Reynolds Center to look abroad
Adam Sneed of the ASU WebDevil writes Friday about the $5.3 million grant given to Arizona State University’s Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and notes that some of that money will be used to foster relationships with international business journalists. Sneed interviewed Andrew Leckey, the head of the Reynolds Center. Sneed writes, […]
Reynolds Foundation gives $5.3 million to biz journalism education
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation announced today two grants totaling $5,336,360 to make Arizona State University a global hub of business journalism education by endowing a faculty chair and expanding the work of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. With the grant, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication will […]
Financial journalism needs to reassess its role
Financial journalists and others involved in the process or reporting business and economics news need to reassess the roles and responsibilities of business journalism, according to a study released this week from the London School of Economics. The study, done by Damian Tambini, concludes “Those that seek a more responsible financial journalism should open a […]
Wall Street Journal, NYU offer fellowship to two Asian journalists
Katherine Pither of Media Helping Media notes that The Wall Street Journal and the journalism program at New York University are once again offering two fellowships to Asian reporters to learn business journalism. Pither writes, “The fellowship covers tuition expenses and fees for two of the three semesters of the 16-month programme, as well as […]
Biz journalists, educators chosen for Reynolds Center seminars
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism awarded 14 fellowships to its weeklong “Strictly Financials Seminar” for working journalists and 11 fellowships to the “Business Journalism Professors Seminar.” Both programs will be held Jan. 6 to Jan. 9 in Phoenix, Ariz. Educators and journalists from around the nation were selected from a large […]
Send your used business journalism textbooks to China
When we last heard from Gregg Fields, the former Miami Herald business journalist, he was going to China to teach business journalism at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Fields is now near the end of teaching his first semester, and he says there’s a dire need by his students for business journalism textbooks in English. “Basically, the […]
