Investigative business journalism: Las Vegas, June 9
Instructor: Alec Klein,
professor at Northwestern University’s
Medill School of Journalism
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Address: Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino,
3655 Las Vegas Blvd So.,
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
When: 1- 5 p.m. June 9
Register for this workshop.
Register for the IRE convention
Hotels:
Paris Las Vegas (Conference Hotel)
Conference room rate is $119 plus tax,
which is currently at 12% (single/double)
Bally’s Las Vegas
(Directly connect to conference hotel)
Conference room rate is $89 plus tax
To make a reservation by phone at
Paris or Bally’s, call
1-877-603-4389 and request the
“2010 IRE Annual Conference” room block.
All reservations must be guaranteed with
a deposit for the first night’s room rate
and tax. To avoid cancellation fees,
reservations must be canceled 72 hours
prior to the attendee’s arrival date.
Polish your skills in investigative business journalism with Alec Klein, professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Alec is a best-selling nonfiction author and an award-winning former investigative reporter for The Washington Post. Over two decades, his investigations at The Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Baltimore Sun and The Virginian-Pilot have led to significant reforms, Congressional hearings, federal laws, criminal convictions and more than half a billion dollars in government fines.
During this workshop, “Investigative Business Journalism on a Beat,” Klein will take you through the investigative story from start to finish: refining and pitching an idea, developing and interviewing sources, plumbing public documents, and organizing and presenting the story effectively in multimedia.
Come an afternoon early to the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) convention, which runs June 10-12, and add investigative business journalism tools to your skill set.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Alec Klein joined the Medill faculty in fall 2008 after eight years at The Washington Post as an investigative business reporter. His last series for The Post documented abuses in the housing industry. An earlier series that investigated the practice of reusing single-use medical devices won the Society of Business Editors and Writers award for special projects and prompted an investigation by the Government Accountability Office, as well as industry reform.
Another of his Post investigations into the big-three credit-rating firms prompted an investigation by the New York attorney general, Congressional hearings and a federal law to strengthen government oversight of the industry.
Alec Klein
Alec’s best-selling Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner was named one of the “Best Business Books” by Library Journal and Strategy + Business. The book built on his coverage of AOL at The Post, for which Alec won the Gerald Loeb Award, business journalism’s highest honor. His second book, A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America’s Best High Schools, was named “One of the Best Education Books of the Year” by the American School Board Journal.
Before coming to Northwestern, Alec taught journalism at Georgetown University and American University. He was a business writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University, Alec is also a playwright and novelist.
About the Program
Please do not register unless you are sincere about attending the workshop 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.
Those who successfully complete three regional workshops or online seminars presented by the Reynolds Center are eligible to receive a “Circle of Achievement” award certificate.
This free seminar is sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. If you have any questions about the Webinar or the center, please e-mail Executive Director Linda Austin or call 602-496-9187.
