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Kelly is the Reynolds Center's Senior Online Producer. She has worked as a reporter for several newspapers, most recently The Arizona Republic, and has been an adjunct professor at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College and holds a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from West Virginia University. Kelly also was a fellow at The Poynter Institute and a contributing writer for "Cancer Stories: Lessons in Love, Loss & Hope."

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ASU professor wins George Polk Award for Medical Reporting
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ASU professor wins George Polk Award for Medical Reporting

Steve Doig and two California Watch reporters won this year’s George Polk Award for Medical Reporting for a groundbreaking series on a Southern California hospital chain that received mega bonuses by billing Medicare for rare medical conditions. Doig is the the Knight Chair in Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and [...]

Two reporters win Reynolds Center scholarships to attend SABEW Conference
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Two reporters win Reynolds Center scholarships to attend SABEW Conference

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has awarded two journalist $1,000 fellowships to attend the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in Indianapolis March 15-17. As part of the fellowship, Emery Cowan, a reporter at the Durango Herald in Colorado, and Christopher Nelson, a freelance journalist [...]

Valentine’s Day, economists’ style
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Valentine’s Day, economists’ style

On the eve of Valentine’s Day, a group of economists and others who heart the language of central banking are busy Tweeting love notes. The New York Times’ Binyamin Applebaum writes in a recent blog post that the hash tag #FedValentines is currently booming on Twitter. The buzz appears to have started with a tweet [...]

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Reynolds Week 2012: Agenda, Strictly Financials

REYNOLDS BUSINESS JOURNALISM WEEK AGENDA “Business Journalism Professors Seminar” Jan. 2-5, 2012, Phoenix, Ariz. MONDAY — Jan. 2 8 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Combined groups) - First Amendment Forum 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductions (Combined groups) - Forum, Andrew Leckey 9 a.m. “Today’s Business Journalists as Investigators” (Combined groups) - Forum, Diana B. Henriques 10:15-10:30 a.m. Break – Computer [...]

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Reynolds Week 2012: Agenda, Professors

REYNOLDS BUSINESS JOURNALISM WEEK AGENDA “Business Journalism Professors Seminar” Jan. 2-5, 2012, Phoenix, Ariz. MONDAY — Jan. 2 8 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Combined groups) - First Amendment Forum 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductions (Combined groups) - Forum, Andrew Leckey 9 a.m. “Today’s Business Journalists as Investigators” (Combined groups) - Forum, Diana B. Henriques 10:15-10:30 a.m. Break – Computer [...]

Tips from the trenches: A lunch chat with Barlett & Steele
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Tips from the trenches: A lunch chat with Barlett & Steele

Don Barlett and Jim Steele were honored on Friday night with SABEW’s Distinguished Achievement Award. In their four decades as a team, Barlett and Steele have won multiple journalism prizes, including two Pulitzers. On Saturday the investigative reporting duo spent the lunch hour with business journalists for a question and answer session. Below are a [...]

Diving inside Google: Search tips for business journalists
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Diving inside Google: Search tips for business journalists

Google’s Sean Carlson had a simple question to kick off his session at the 2011 SABEW conference:  Has anyone here used google before? Of course we all have, daily, sometimes hourly. And the laughing that erupted from the audience of journalists packed into a classroom to hear Carlson’s Google tips for journalists proved again that [...]

A morning chat with airline CEOs
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A morning chat with airline CEOs

From rising fuel costs to the recent Southwest Airlines incident on a Boeing 737, the CEOs of two major airlines tackled a variety of industry topics at the 2011 Society of American Business Editors and Writers Conference. Terry Maxon, a reporter for the Dallas Morning News, moderated the discussion between American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey [...]

Afraid of math? A veteran editor’s tips to ease the anxiety
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Afraid of math? A veteran editor’s tips to ease the anxiety

Before Rich Holden became the executive director of the Dow Jones News Fund, he spent 20 years editing copy at The Wall Street Journal and The Asian Wall Street Journal. So when it comes to mistakes with numbers in stories, he has pretty much seen them all. In the session, “Afraid of Math? Take a [...]

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