2nd Annual Business Journalism Professors Seminar Set for Jan. 7-10

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TEMPE -- The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has awarded 12 fellowships to its weeklong Business Journalism Professors Seminar to be held Jan. 7-10 in Tempe, Ariz.

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Chris Warden, a professor at Troy University in Alabama and alum of the 2007 Reynolds Center Business Journalism Professors Seminar, speaks about the program. More

Educators from around the nation were selected from a large pool of applicants for this training event. It will be held at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, where the Reynolds Center is headquartered. It will be held concurrently with another Reynolds financial seminar aimed at working journalists.

The seminar for professors covers essentials of teaching a hands-on course on financial, economic and writing aspects of the field. 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.

Seminar participants will hear a keynote speech from Robert Mittelstaedt, dean of Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, and hear from a panel of editors, including Kathy Tulumello of The Arizona Republic and Don Henninger, publisher of the Business Journal of Phoenix, discuss their needs and expectations in today’s newsrooms.

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

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 website, 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.