Tutorial: Understanding SEC filings

By Reynolds Staff on Nov 19, 2009 in Basics, Beats, Business Beats, Investigation, Tools, Tutorials

SEC filings provide endless story ideas and hidden details about specific companies. In this tutorial, Chris Roush, the director of the Carolina Business News Initiative and an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gets you familiar with how to navigate the filings. You’ll also learn:

How the Securities and Exchange operates and how a business journalist can use the SEC to its advantage.

Reading SEC filings to find news.

Mining little-used SEC filings to find hidden gems.

Follow along for a self-guided tutorial.

SEC Filings Tutorial

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The Reynolds Center, created through generous grants from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation of Las Vegas and operated by ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is dedicated to improving the quality of business and economics coverage through training programs for business reporters and editors.