Reynolds Center Workshops
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Mark Your Calendar! More than 4,000 journalists from over 1,200 newsrooms nationwide have attended business journalism workshops from the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.
The Reynolds Center is funded by a grant from the Las Vegas, Nevada-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. Trainers have business journalism and teaching experience. Dress is casual, and open discussion of important issues affecting business journalism is encouraged. Our first cycle early in the year is "High-Intensity Business Coverage," touching on fundamentals of coverage such as balance sheets, SEC filings, private companies and the business in all beats. The second cycle in the spring is "Investigative Business Journalism." The Reynolds Center is offering a series of specialized workshops on "The Craft of Business Writing" in cities across the country in 2006. "Informative and useful," says Thomas Lee of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis who attended an "Investigative" workshop in Minneapolis. "I'm anxious to get back to the newsroom and apply this knowledge to my work." The Reynolds Center has also held specialized workshops on Covering the Business of Sports, Entertainment, Health Care, Technology and Broadcast Business Journalism. In addition, eight business journalism online seminars will be held the first half of the year. These weeklong online seminars are titled "Business Writing," "Covering Private Companies," "Business Journalism Boot Camp," "Intermediate Business Journalism," "Personal Finance" and "Designing the Business Section." "Reading 8Ks and 10Qs and the like can actually be exciting now," says Patrick Garmoe of The Daily Herald in Chicago who participated in an online seminar. Those who complete three business journalism workshops or three online seminars will receive a Certificate of Completion from the Reynolds Center. Daylong workshops begin promptly at 9 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. They are open not only to newspaper business reporters and editors, but also to others in the newsroom called upon to write or edit business stories from time to time. "We're offering business journalism training to all journalists" is the motto of our program. The Reynolds Center provides curriculum, handout materials, trainers and online registration, while a variety of statewide journalism associations, publications and universities serve as hosts for the workshops. Both the workshops and BusinessJournalism.org are funded through a $2.9 million, three-year grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. This grant followed several years of study of business journalism by the Foundation and the American Press Institute. The Foundation supports a variety of giving programs in journalism, capital grants, aging and quality of life and cardiovascular clinical research. API, founded in 1946, is the oldest and largest center devoted solely to training and professional development in the news industry.
Dates and locations for 2006 Cycle of Workshops ^ top
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Andrew Leckey is director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. For more information, contact Leckey at 703-715-3329 or