Census data offers cornucopia of local business stories

By Reynolds Staff on Apr 07, 2011 in Economy, SABEW, SABEW blog, Story ideas, TrendingTopic

Meredith Shamburger, SMU student, SABEW Reynolds Center

SMU student Meredith Shamburger covers the Reynolds Center's workshop on Mining the Census for Local Business Stories in advance of the SABEW Conference in Dallas.

DALLAS — Steve Doig of Arizona State University and Paul Overberg of USA Today led a daylong Reynolds Center workshop on Mining the Census for Local Business Stories in advance of the SABEW Conference at Southern Methodist University.

SMU senior Meredith Shamburger offered this report.

You can find the PowerPoints, handouts and videos of a previous presentation of the same workshop in Philadelphia in January.

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