Wharton to hold biz journalism seminar on June 2

The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania is inviting business journalists to apply for the next virtual Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists program.

The June 2 program will feature Wharton professors Katy Milkman, Ben Keys and Mary-Hunter McDonnell who will present on “The Science of Behavior Change,” “Unpacking the COVID-19 Housing Bubble” and “How Corporate America Responds to Contentious Social Environments,” respectively.

View the June 2021 program agenda here. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, May 25, 2021.

Interested journalists can visit the Seminars for Business Journalists application. Space is limited. The cost of this program is $40.

Applications are open to those who are employed full-time as a print, broadcast or online business journalist by legitimate media companies.

For complete information on the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists, visit https://journalists.wharton.upenn.edu or contact Wharton Media Relations at communications@wharton.upenn.edu.

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.