Business journalism professors and working journalists awarded Reynolds Center fellowships

TEMPE--The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has awarded 12 fellowships apiece to its weeklong “Business Journalism Professors Seminar” and “Strictly Financials Seminar” for working journalists, both to be held in Jan. 7-10 in Tempe, Ariz.
           
Educators and journalists from around the nation were selected from a large pool of applicants for these two training events. They will be held concurrently at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, where the Reynolds Center is headquartered.

The seminar for professors covers essentials of teaching a hands-on course on financial, economic and writing aspects of the field. The financials seminar for journalists features training in financials, from stock markets and bonds to financial statements and company research. Fellowships cover all seminar expenses.

“The success of last year’s inaugural Business Journalism Professors Seminar encouraged us to repeat it,” said Andrew Leckey, Director of the Reynolds Center. “We initiated the Strictly Financials seminar as a direct answer to many requests received from business journalists who wanted to learn how to dig deeper into the intricacies of how companies operate.”

Fellows chosen for the “Business Journalism Professors Seminar” are:

Annie-Laurie Blair, Miami University of Ohio
Laura Castaneda, University of Southern California
Roger Desmond, University of Hartford
Dr. Martin Edu, Grambling State University
Lynn Holley, University of Illinois
Dr. Ed Lenert, University of Nevada, Reno
Shaheen Pasha, American University in Cairo
Mark Vamos, Southern Methodist University
Georgiana Vines, University of Tennessee
Leslie Whitaker, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Timothy Gibbons, University of North Florida
Mark Tatge, Ohio University

The “Strictly Financials” fellows are:

Hanah Cho, The Sun in Baltimore
Roberta “Robbie” DiMesio, The Oregonian
Nell Luter Floyd, The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss.
Delawese Fulton, The State, Columbia, S.C.
John Gittelsohn, The Orange County Register
Angela Gonzales, The Business Journal of Phoenix
Traci Gregory, The Mohawk Valley Business Journal
Beth Kassab, Orlando Sentinel
David Morrill, Bay Area News Group, Walnut Creek, Calif.
Stefanie Murray, Ann Arbor News
Denis Paiste, New Hampshire Union Leader
Kristen Tatti, Northern Colorado Business Report

More than 6,000 working journalists around the country over the past four years have taken part in workshops, online seminars and online tutorials of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. More information about the Center can be found on its Web site, www.BusinessJournalism.org.

The Center is funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, a national philanthropic organization founded in 1954 by the late media entrepreneur for whom it is named. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, it is one of the largest private foundations in the United States.

The Cronkite School is a leading professional journalism college with 1,700 undergraduate and master’s students.

Contact: Andrew Leckey, Director of Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, (480) 276-3654
           

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