The Reynolds Center has announced its 2008 fall workshop schedule.
Select a workshop and register from the drop-down menu below.
The Reynolds Center has opened registration for select 2008 free online seminars.
Topics include:
*Intermediate Business Journalism
*Covering Private Companies
*Business Journalism Boot Camp
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FREE ONE-DAY BUSINESS JOURNALISM WORKSHOP IN DETROIT ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
A FREE one-day business journalism workshop will be held in Detroit on Friday, September 19, 2008. This workshop is open not only to business journalists, but to journalists covering other beats who wish to learn more about covering business.
The “Business Journalism Boot Camp” program covers the basics of using numbers in understanding financials, deciphering government filings, covering private companies and writing effective profiles of companies and CEOs.
This workshop is sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and hosted by the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News.
Presenters are Michelle Leder, a freelance financial journalist and founder of Footnoted.org, and Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly's Training Director and former business editor of The Washington Post.
“More than 7,000 journalists nationwide have attended Reynolds Center workshops and understanding basic financial concepts and writing with style are skills that belong in every journalist’s portfolio,” said Andrew Leckey, director of the Reynolds Center.
Registration for this workshop is available here.
The Reynolds Center is funded by a grant from the Las Vegas, Nevada-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.
Please do not register unless you are sincere about attending and have been given authorization by your editor to do so. Since our workshops are often oversubscribed, no-shows keep other potential registrants from attending and waste food purchased for morning and lunch meals. Registration will close one week prior to the designated date for each individual workshop. The agenda for the upcoming workshop is as follows:
AGENDA: "BUSINESS JOURNALISM BOOT CAMP" WORKSHOP
8:30 a.m. Check-in and Coffee Reception
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
9:15 a.m. Digging into the Numbers in Financial Statements
Michelle Leder
10:30 a.m. Case Study
Leder
11 a.m. Understanding the Numbers in Government Filings
Leder
12 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. Covering Private Companies
Jodi Schneider
2:15 p.m. Group Exercise: Private Companies
2:45 p.m. Writing Company and Individual Profiles
Schneider
3:45 p.m. Five Practical Ideas to Take Home
Schneider
4 p.m. Adjournment
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