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Online Seminars

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

Topics include:
*Intermediate Business Journalism
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Designing the Business Section Online Seminar April 25-29, 2005


Published: Wednesday, February 16, 2005

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Welcome to our Free Online Seminar!

The Particulars

Location: Online

Date: 4/25/2005 -4/29/2005

Registration for this seminar has closed


Registration for this seminar has closed


As a complement to our 50 workshops held around the nation in 2005, the Reynolds Center at API is launching a free weeklong “Designing the Business Section” online seminar. It covers the basics of art and image selection, design for finance pages, and building the front and inside pages.

This week-long seminar offers participants an interactive course for online finance page design. Space is limited for these seminars and registration will operate on a first-come, first-serve basis.

During the week of the online seminar, participants will be asked to:

  • Spend between 1˝ - 2 hours each day working on the online seminar at their convenience
  • Adhere to the discussion leader's deadlines for work and design to be completed and submitted
  • Engage in discussion within the appropriate forum concerning the readings and assignments

Participants for this Design seminar must use an application to create business page designs through the exercises. Please make sure your application (InDesign, Quark, Word) affords you the ability to convert to a .PDF or. JPG for posting in the online seminar!

Please do not register unless you are sincere about participating in this online seminar and can do so for each day of the designated week. Please receive approval from your editor prior to signing up for the seminar.

Below is a proposed agenda for the week, broken down day-by-day:

  • Day One: Overview of news/art/image selection. A look at what works and what doesn't.
  • Day Two: The basics of design for finance pages – Part I (reader initiatives, why business page readers ARE different).
  • Day Three: The basics of design for finance pages – Part II (use of typography, images and graphics).
  • Day Four: The basics of design for finance pages – Part III (structure of business pages, statistics/lists/tables).
  • Day Five: Building the front and inside page with your budget based on what you have learned throughout the week.

This seminar is led by Phil Nesbitt, past president of the Society of News Design. He has 34 years of experience as a newspaper journalist and is a former associate director at the American Press Institute.

This free seminar is sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at the American Press Institute in Reston, Va.

“The response to our initial online seminars last year was so strong that we decided to add the Design course for those interested or charged with business design,” said Andrew Leckey, director of the Reynolds Center at API. “This gives us the ability to reach even more journalists besides those at our daylong workshops.”

The Reynolds Center at API is funded by a grant from the Las Vegas, Nevada-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. Besides its workshops, it runs the BusinessJournalism.org Web site for those who want to do a better job of covering business.

Additional questions should be directed to Lori Tait, Reynolds Center at API Project Manager at ltait@americanpressinstitute.org .

 

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