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 the Strictly Financials Seminar learn how to dissect financial statements and SEC documents. Prospective business journalism professors receive training in how to teach a university-level course in business journalism.

“The number and quality of professional journalists and professors applying for our business journalism seminars continued to grow in this fifth year of the seminars,” said Andrew Leckey, president of the Reynolds Center and the Reynolds Chair in Business Journalism at the Cronkite School. “At a time of pressing financial issues, this reflects a commendable commitment by both news organizations and academic institutions to the importance of business and economic coverage.”

The seminars, taught by highly regarded business journalists and business journalism professors, are part of Reynolds Business Journalism Week at the Cronkite School. A highlight of the week is a discussion with the legendary investigative-reporting duo of Don Barlett and Jim Steele, along with the 2010 winners of the Reynolds Center’s Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism.

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