UNC Business Journalism Boot Camp now accepting applications

The UNC Business Journalism Boot Camp, to be held May 22 to May 26, is now accepting applications.

College students with an interest in business journalism or a business journalism internship or job for Summer 2016 are encouraged to apply. This five-day residential workshop will include instructional sessions covering companies, interviewing CEOs and finding information on companies and the economy. Students will be housed on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus.

Business journalism is one of the last growth areas in journalism, as media organizations such as Bloomberg, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC and American City Business Journals continue to thrive while other media companies struggle to remain profitable. In addition, business journalists make more money than other journalists because of their skill in explaining complicated topics.

The UNC Business Journalism Boot Camp will include classroom study and newsroom practice. The camp will feature visiting business reporters and business personalities. Students will cover a company press conference and interview a company CEO.

Students will be ledt by Chris Roush, the Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in Business Journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill, and other business journalism experts. In 2010, Roush was named Journalism Teacher of the Year by the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The judges noted that Roush “has become the expert in business journalism — not just at Chapel Hill, but throughout the country and even in other parts of the world.”

Roush is the author of two books about business journalism — “Show Me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication” (second edition, 2010) and “Profits and Losses: Business Journalism and its Role in Society” (second edition, 2011). He is the co-author of “The SABEW Stylebook: 2,000 Business Terms Defined and Rated” (2012). Students who attend the camp will receive copies of “Show me the Money” and “The SABEW Stylebook.”

Apply today and explore a future in business journalism.

Application deadline is April 1, 2016. Students accepted to the institute will be notified on April 15, 2016. Registration fee of $500 covers lodging, meals, instruction, press pass and camp T-shirt. (Students who are local and do not need lodging will pay a $300 rate.)

Students who successfully complete the Institute will receive a certificate and admission into the LinkedIn page for the UNC Business Journalism Boot Camp, where they can access instructional material and ask questions about business journalism during their summer internships or future jobs.

For more information, contact Chris Roush at croush@email.unc.edu.

Apply now using the PDF application form here. Camp attendees will be required to bring a working laptop for taking notes, writing stories and accessing online documents.