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Wharton to hold DC program for biz journalists next month

The Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists, led by the Wharton School’s most prominent professors, will hold a no-cost, one-day program next month in Washington.

The program will feature Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy Kent Smetters and Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics Philip Nichols on “Taxation, Immigration & Medicare4All” and “Corruption & Emerging Economies in Transition,” respectively.

For more than 50 years, the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists have offered participants an opportunity to expand their knowledge, network with journalists from around the world, increase their exposure to leading experts and broaden their perspectives in a stimulating environment. This program is free of charge and open to a limited number of journalists.

When: Thursday, March 28, 2019, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Registration deadline: March 18, 2019.

The Seminar will take place at The Hay-Adams, 800 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20006

Registration is required to attend this free Seminar. Visit the Seminar application.

In recent years, reporters from media outlets such as The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, BuzzFeed, Reuters, The New York Times, Marketplace Radio, China News and Los Angeles Times have attended the Seminars.

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

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.

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