Reynolds Center Trainers

Trainers for Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism business journalism workshops and online seminars in 2006 include:

James K. Gentry

Professor and Former Dean at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas, Gentry has presented workshops to hundreds of business reporters. The first executive director of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, he is a senior fellow at the Media Center at the American Press Institute.

Curt Hazlett

Hazlett has had a long background in business journalism. He was a financial reporter in the Chicago bureau of Reuters, a business editor at The Chicago Sun-Times, the financial copy desk chief of The Washington Post and the business editor of The Portland (Maine) Press Herald before becoming that paper's managing editor. He is now a seminar associate for the American Press Institute and a freelance business writer.

Michelle Leder

Freelance Financial Journalist whose first book, "Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company's True Value," teaches investors how to spot and avoid various accounting tricks, also edits a daily blog at www.footnoted.org,, a site she created to reveal the things companies try to hide in their routine SEC filings. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, BusinessWeek, Inc magazine and the AARP. Previously, she was the personal finance columnist for Lifetime TV.com's Money and Career pages. In the decade she spent as a daily business reporter and editor, she won several awards, including the Best in Business award by the Society of Business Editors and Writers.

Chris Roush

Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, where he teaches newswriting, business reporting and economics reporting. Roush has also taught at the University of Richmond and Washington and Lee University. Previously, he worked as a business reporter for BusinessWeek, Bloomberg News, The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Tampa Tribune, where he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the insurance industry in Hurricane Andrew’s aftermath. He was editor-in-chief of a company that published financial magazines, and has written two books, including the textbook, "Show Me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004).

Jodi Schneider

Economics Editor at Congressional Quarterly working on its economics and finance coverage, she was previously an assistant managing editor at U.S. News & World Report. A past president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, she was local business editor at The Washington Post and business editor at The Orlando Sentinel.

Dick Weiss

A journalist with 33 years in the business as both a reporter and editor. Until last year, he was a metro editor and writing coach at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he specialized in narrative stories and profiles. Now he works fulltime at WeissWrite.com, a company that he started in 2003. WeissWrite offers training programs, coaching and editing services to journalists, students and business people.