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Reynolds Center releases fall training schedule

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism can help with free training in business journalism. Check its six-month schedule of training, taught by award-winning journalists and professors.

The center has a free workshop in Montana on computer-assisted reporting and in New York on digging into financial statements, plus a business journalism boot camp in Portland, Ore.

It also offers training in how to track companies’ influence on politics at the SPJ/RTDNA Excellence in Journalism Conference in Fort Lauderdale and in how to be an entrepreneur and cover the economy better at the UNITY Convention in Las Vegas.

In addition, it has a free, live webinar on telling great stories with Diana B. Henriques, longtime New York Times writer and best-selling author. Other free webinars will help you delve into SEC filings and find economic stories in Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census data.

And it offers all-expenses-paid, intensive training in financials in Phoenix.

Plus, the center provides free self-guided training, beat basics and daily coverage tips off the news at BusinessJournalism.org.

See all of the fall training schedule here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.