Professors, biz journalists awarded fellowships

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has awarded 12 fellowships apiece to its weeklong “Business Journalism Professors Seminar� and “Strictly Financials Seminar� for working journalists, both to be held in Jan. 7-10 in Tempe, Ariz.
           
Educators and journalists from around the nation were selected from a large pool of applicants for these two training events. They will be held concurrently at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, where the Reynolds Center is headquartered.

The seminar for professors covers essentials of teaching a hands-on course on financial, economic and writing aspects of the field. The financials seminar for journalists features training in financials, from stock markets and bonds to financial statements and company research. Fellowships cover all seminar expenses.

“The success of last year’s inaugural Business Journalism Professors Seminar encouraged us to repeat it,� said Andrew Leckey, director of the Reynolds Center. “We initiated the Strictly Financials seminar as a direct answer to many requests received from business journalists who wanted to learn how to dig deeper into the intricacies of how companies operate.�

Read more here for a list of the recipients. Disclosure: I am one of the instructors for the professors seminar.