Watch the live video of investigative business journalism workshop on Friday

By Reynolds Staff on May 03, 2010 in Featured

Gary Cohn

Join us Friday on BusinessJournalism.org as Pulitzer winner Gary Cohn and former Washington Post investigative reporter Alec Klein walk you through the steps to successful investigative business stories.

We will be live-streaming their workshop on investigative business journalism from Portland, Ore., from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. PDT on May 7. Click on this link to go to the Webcast. Once on that page, click on “Live Webcast.” We will be pausing the stream during lunch and breaks.

And if you can’t make it for the live presentation Friday, the video will be archived on BusinessJournalism.org. The live-stream is made possible by the workshop’s hosts: the University of Oregon’s Turnbull Center and the Society of Professional Journalists, Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter.

These two top reporters-turned-journalism-professors 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.

Cohn, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer for investigative reporting, has also won a Barlett and Steele Silver Award for Investigative Business Journalism, an IRE Medal, a George Polk Award, two Selden Ring Awards for investigative reporting, Sigma Delta Chi’s first prize for investigative reporting, a National Press Club award, an award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and two Overseas Press Club Awards. He was a Pulitzer finalist in 1996 and 2002.

Over two decades, Klein’s investigations at The Washington 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.

Alec Klein

Klein’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.

Also, Klein will present a half-day workshop on Investigative Business Journalism on a Beat” on June 9 at the Paris Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Come an afternoon early to the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference, and attend this free workshop with Klein, who is a journalism professor at Northwestern University.

Can’t wait? Here are tips from five top investigative business journalists — including Cohn, a freelancer who teaches at USC — as well as recordings of five Webinars on investigative business journalism that Klein did in January.

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