Wharton to hold one-day workshop for business journalists

The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania will hold a one-day workshop in Washington, D.C., on March 11 for business journalists.

The free program, will feature sessions by Wharton professors Mark Pauly and Robert Inman on The Affordable Care Act and fiscal policy and economic growth.

The program will be held on March 11 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the offices of Morgan, Lewis & Bocklus LLP, 1111 Pennsylvania Ave. The Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists is now in its 46th year.

Registration is required to attend. Applications are open to those employed full-time as a print, broadcast or online business journalist for media companies.

To apply, go 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.