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The Reynolds Center has announced its 2009 free workshop schedule.

Select a workshop and register from the drop-down menu below.

Online Seminars

The Reynolds Center has opened registration for select 2009 free online seminars.

Topics include:
*Intermediate Business Journalism
*Covering Private Companies
*Business Journalism Boot Camp
*Understanding Financial Statements

Entries are now being accepted for the 3rd annual Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism



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Named for the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative business journalist team of Don Barlett and Jim Steele, these awards, funded by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, celebrate the best in print and online investigative business journalism.

The annual awards were first given out in fall 2007, and feature a Gold award of $5,000 and a Silver prize of $2,000. (Read more about the awards’ history and view video and photos of previous winners.)

For the 2009 awards, entries must have appeared between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009. Submission deadline is August 3, 2009.

“The economic downturn has rightly put intense focus on scandal, greed and inequities throughout business and government,” said Andrew Leckey, president of the Reynolds Center at the ASU Cronkite School. “Journalists at all sizes of publications and sites in the first two years of these awards have shown their determination to take on tough investigative business stories ranging from local neighborhood issues to global concerns.”

Barlett and Steele, who won two Pulitzers with The Philadelphia Inquirer and two National Magazine Awards at Time, have worked together for more than three decades. They are contributing editors to Vanity Fair.

"We'd like to see journalists who keep the bigger picture in mind," said Steele. "Someone who brings an understanding of complex issues that have not been properly explained. Don and I have an informal motto: Tell the reader something they don't know. It sounds simple. Yet a lot of journalism is a rehash of what people already know."

Judges will be looking for investigative enterprise, strong business theme, writing style and clarity and impact.

For the official Rules & Guidelines, click here.
For the official Entry Form, click here.
For Barlett and Steele: Behind the Awards, click here.

 

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