Writing business news for the Web: Self-guided training

By Reynolds Staff on Apr 27, 2010 in Self-guided training, Training Archives, TrendingTopic, Writing/SEO

February 2010: The fast-paced world of the Web places special demands on writers and editors. That’s especially important when posting fast-breaking news or handling complex information – numbers, cumbersome titles, misunderstood terms, precise attribution.

This self-guided Webinar will help writers and editors write with clarity, efficiency, brevity and transparency. Participants will study story approaches and language use that enhance the readability of Web copy.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jacqui Banaszynski shares ways to write complex, breaking business news stories for the Web.

Take a look at the Webinar recordings or jump right to Banaszynski’s PowerPoint presentations, which are full of tips.

Webinar recordings
- Day 1 - Deadline breaking basics for fast-breaking business online
- Day 2 - Going fast and going deep: How to plan for layered coverage that helps organize your reporting and writing online
Slideshows
- Day 1: Online reading habits, breaking news, core techniques
- Day 2: Organizing, stakeholder, story structure
Presenter

Jacqui Banaszynski, Pulitzer Prize-winner and the Knight Chair in Editing at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Handouts
- Lit Forensics: Reynolds Center, Writing for the Web (PDF)
- Writing business news for the Web, Reynolds Center (PDF)

About the Author

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.