Internships, scholarships in business journalism

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is offering three innovative programs for universities designed to improve the quality of the nation’s business coverage.

“There is business in every story,” said Andrew Leckey, director of the Reynolds Center. “Professors and students can be leaders in assuring it is explained well.”

The second annual “Business Journalism Professors Seminar” takes place Jan. 7-10, 2008 at the Reynolds Center at the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. This training initiative is designed for those who have just begun to teach a Business Journalism course or those who will soon be teaching one.

Twelve fellowships are available for instructors from across the country. Application deadline is Nov. 2, 2007. Click here for more details.

Eight non-renewable college scholarships of $4,000 each will be awarded to juniors or graduate students for their following academic year. These applicants sponsored by a professor are for business journalism majors, or journalism majors who have taken business journalism coursework and are seriously interested in pursuing a career in business journalism.

Application deadline is Feb. 1, 2008, with scholarships awarded March 15, 2008 for the academic year that commences in fall 2008. For more information, click here.

Following the successful launch of its business journalism internships this past summer, the Reynolds Center will again offer this program in summer 2008. Publications that will host university student interns include: The Boston Globe, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, the San Jose Mercury News, The Arizona Republic and The Business Journal of Phoenix.

Interested college students should apply for these paid 10-week internships through the contacts listed here. Application deadline is Nov. 30, 2007.