As the founding editor of RagingBull.com, one of the first online investor communities, and a co-founder of Indie Research, an investment-newsletter company, Matthew Ragas has always pursued what he loves.  Today he teaches courses in the College of Communication at DePaul University where he encourages his students to follow their individual passions. Ragas, a Business [...]

Rob Reuteman, former president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, was an editor at the Rocky Mountain News for 26 years until the paper folded in 2009.  During his last 12 years at the Rocky, he worked both as a columnist and business editor. Reuteman is currently the Reynolds Visiting Professor at Colorado State University, where [...]

Rob Wells, former deputy bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires‘ Washington bureau, was recently named a Reynolds Visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina. He was also a Business Journalism Professors Fellow from Jan. 2-5 in Phoenix. Pulling on his experience as a veteran financial journalist, Wells offered tips of how reporters can get the knowledge [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

Experienced editors discussed with Reynolds Week Professor fellows on what they expect from journalism school students hunting for jobs. The panel members included Linda Austin, executive director of the Reynolds Center and former editor of Lexington Herald-Leader; Ilana Lowery, longtime editor at Phoenix Business Journal; Kathy Tulumello, business center director at the Arizona Republic and [...]

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 [...]