Reynolds Center Programs Daylong Workshops Online Seminars One-hour Tutorials Barlett & Steele Awards Professors Seminar Strictly Financials Seminar Research Internships Awards and Scholarships Our Bloggers Covering Business
Business Beats
Starting Out Business Writing Business Design Business Glossary Ethics Five Questions with... Immigration Series Business Journalism Resources Job Listings Academic Programs Book Listings and Reviews Scholarships Calculators Web Resources Tutorials Article Index Workshop Registration

The Reynolds Center has announced its 2008 fall workshop schedule.

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

Online Seminars

The Reynolds Center has opened registration for select 2008 free online seminars.

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

Business Journalism Boot Camp, September 16, 2008



E-mail to a friendPrint this article Make article text largeMake article text normal sizeMake article text smallFont
AIM THIS PAGE

FREE ONE-DAY BUSINESS JOURNALISM WORKSHOP IN KNOXVILLE, TENN. ON SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The Particulars

Location: University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Date: September 16, 2008

Hotels:
Four Points by Sheraton Knoxville Cumberland House Hotel

The Crown Plaza Hotel, Knoxville

Hilton Knoxville, Downtown

Hampton Inn and Suites Knoxville-Downtown

Click here to register for this workshop

A FREE one-day business journalism workshop will be held in Knoxville, Tenn., on Tuesday, September 16, 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 University of Tennessee School of Journalism & Electronic Media; UT College of Communication and Information; Knoxville News Sentinel and the East Tennessee Chapter of SPJ.

Presenters are James Gentry, professor and former dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Kansas, and Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly's Training Director and former business editor of The Washington Post. William Rukeyser, the editorial director of Corporate Board Member magazine, will deliver a luncheon keynote address.

“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.         Understanding the Numbers in Financial Statements
                        James Gentry
                                   
10:30 a.m.       Case Study
                        Gentry
           
11 a.m.            Understanding the Numbers in Government Filings
                         Gentry
                       
12 p.m.            Keynote Speech
                        William Rukeyser

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

 

Copyright © 2008 Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism