CQ’s economics/finance editor becomes training director

Congressional Quarterly’s economics and finance editor Jodi Schneider has accepted an offer to become the first Training Director for the outlet. In a memo, editor Mike Riley said her “primary charge will be to help us become a world-class learning news organization, and one of her key goals will be to develop a broad-based program for developing and coaching CQ’s many talented journalists.”
Schneider has been a senior trainer throughout the country for Donald W. Reynolds center workshops since 2003. She has made frequent presentations on business reporting, writing and 24-hour coverage. “The fine job Jodi has done as a trainer for us indicates that Congressional Quarterly made a wise choice,” said Andrew Leckey, Reynolds Center director. “She knows business journalism and how to raise the professionalism of those involved in it.”
Schneider tells us: “I’m excited about the opportunity to further CQ’s training efforts and to help this talented group of journalists grow in their careers here. And I’m looking forward to developing a CQ training curriculum from the ground up.” She also tells us that she won’t be assuming her new role until a new economics and finance editor is hired.