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Quick chat with the Chicago Tribune’s Alejandra Cancino

By on Jan 11, 2012

Alejandra Cancino, a business reporter at the Chicago Tribune, writes about commercial real estate and the Chicago markets. Before joining the Tribune in 2009, she was a multimedia reporter and a web producer for a Spanish-language newspaper. Cancino spent Jan 2-5 as a fellow during the Reynolds Center’s Strictly Financials Seminar. During a quick break, she shared [...]

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Quick chat with High Point University’s Carol Davis

Carol Davis, a communications instructor at High Point University in North Carolina, was one of the first video bloggers reporting from the floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange. She also covered the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, NASDAQ, the NYSE and the American Stock Exchange. During the Business Journalism Professor Seminars on Jan. 2-5, Davis chatted with [...]

Uncovering the Best Local Business Stories: Fort Worth, April 26
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Uncovering the Best Local Business Stories: Fort Worth, April 26

This free workshop in Fort Worth on April 26 is designed to help community journalists cover local business better. Whether it’s finding stories in the municipal budget, the local economic-development agency or area small businesses, business and the economy are big news on Main Street, as well as Wall Street.

Geared to the needs of generalists on small staffs, this daylong training will arm you with resources, tips and ideas to bring more meaningful coverage of this important topic to your community.

Uncovering the Best Local Business Stories: Lexington, Ky., April 13
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Uncovering the Best Local Business Stories: Lexington, Ky., April 13

Whether it’s finding stories in the municipal budget, the local economic-development agency or area small businesses, business and the economy are big news on Main Street, as well as Wall Street.

Geared to the needs of generalists on small staffs, this daylong training will arm you with resources, tips and ideas to bring more meaningful coverage of this important topic to your community.

Jodi Schneider details how journalism professors can prepare students for the job market
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Jodi Schneider details how journalism professors can prepare students for the job market

During her career as a manager, trainer, recruiter, editor, and now in her current role as a team leader for Congress at Bloomberg News, Jodi Schneider has hired and supervised diverse personalities. With years in the business, she can relate to the often daunting task of helping students find jobs in journalism. But since professors [...]

Robin Phillips shares LinkedIn strategies for the business beat
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Robin Phillips shares LinkedIn strategies for the business beat

Robin Phillips, the web managing editor of the Reynolds Center and adjunct journalism professor at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, detailed ways financial journalists can utilize LinkedIn on the business beat. Phillips told a group of journalists gathered for the Strictly Financials and Business Journalism Professor Seminars that the career-building website can be [...]

Lessons from a rookie year teaching business journalism
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Lessons from a rookie year teaching business journalism

Alan Deutschman has spent more than 20 years as a financial journalist – mostly writing about technology and Silicon Valley – for a slew of national publications including Fortune and Vanity Fair. He has also written four books, including an in-depth biography, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs. In 2010, he took on a new challenge, [...]

Former LA Times journalist named Reynolds Visiting Professor in Business Journalism at ASU’s Cronkite School
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Former LA Times journalist named Reynolds Visiting Professor in Business Journalism at ASU’s Cronkite School

Sharon Bernstein, an award-winning editor and reporter with more than 20 years of experience at the Los Angeles Times, has been named the Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professor in Business Journalism for the spring 2012 semester at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

Getting LinkedIn — Sourcing through Social Networking: Online, Feb. 28
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Getting LinkedIn — Sourcing through Social Networking: Online, Feb. 28

Whether it’s confirming a scoop from a company or chasing down a rumor, having the right source makes all the difference. As LinkedIn membership grows (and it hit 120 million in August 2011), the business-related social networking site becomes more and more useful to business journalists. Robin J Phillips, the Reynolds Center’s Web managing editor and social media manager, will take you on an hourlong tour around LinkedIn.

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