Self-guided training

Cracking Corporate Corruption at Wal-Mart: Self-guided training

By Reynolds Staff on Jun 17, 2013 in Barlett & Steele Awards, Business Beats, Financial/economy, Investigative, Retail | Lifestyle, Self-guided training, Training Archives

Pulitzer winners David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab headline this session at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference: Cracking Corporate Corruption at Wal-Mart. The duo’s investigation into corruption in the world’s biggest retailer won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

The Business of Me (2013): Self-guided training

By Reynolds Staff on Jun 03, 2013 in Self-guided training, Selling yourself, Training Archives

The free webinar, “The Business of Me,” will take place June 4-6, 2013. Whether you’re working in a mainstream news organization or striking out on your own with a blog, news site or freelance business, this self-guided training will help you become a more entrepreneurial journalist.

Sree live-tweets his citizenship ceremony

By Reynolds Staff on May 31, 2013 in Basics, Featured, Networking, Social media/community

By Amanda Gomez Dow Jones News Fund Business Reporting Residency Social media enthusiast Sree Sreenivasan live-Tweeted as he became an American citizen. After more than 20 years, Sreenivasan can call the U.S. home, along with most of his social media accounts. Professor Sree, as he’s commonly known, is Columbia University’s chief digital officer. He’s also [...]

New deadline: July 1 for Knight Community Information Challenge

By Robin J Phillips on May 22, 2013 in Basics, Tools/tech

There are just 10 days left to apply for the Knight Community Information Challenge. Foundation directors Susan Patterson, programs, and Bahia Ramos, community foundations, put together a 5-point Q&A to help potential applicants during these final days. The deadline is June 1. Update: The challenge deadline has been extended to July 1, 2013 Five things [...]

Shell Companies and Fraud: An Investigative Primer: Self-guided training

By Reynolds Staff on May 20, 2013 in Financial/economy, Investigative, Self-guided training, Training Archives

The self-guided training from this webinar — Shell Companies and Fraud: An Investigative Primer — will help you understand the characteristics of shell companies, their legitimate and illegitimate purposes in the business sector, and methods for backgrounding and connecting intricate webs of firms and individuals scattered around the globe.

Getting the Goods — Interviews that Work: Self-guided training

By Reynolds Staff on May 07, 2013 in Best Practices, Self-guided training, Writing/SEO

The free, two-day webinar, “Getting the Goods – Interviews that Work,” was held May 8-9, 2013. Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski explores the core purposes, techniques and ethics of the interview process. She reveals different interview approaches that work best in different situations and that apply to any genre of journalism. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN [...]

Uncovering the Best Local Business Stories (Fayetteville): Self-guided training

By Reynolds Staff on Apr 12, 2013 in Business Beats, Self-guided training, Training Archives

The free workshop, “Uncovering the Best Local Business Stories,” was originally held at the University of Arkansas on April 12, 2013. Geared to the needs of generalists on small staffs, this training will arm you with resources, tips and ideas to bring more meaningful coverage of this important topic to your community.

Great Sources, Great Storytelling: Self-guided training

By Reynolds Staff on Apr 02, 2013 in Investigative, Self-guided training, Training Archives, TrendingTopic

The SABEW Conference session, “Great Sources, Great Storytelling,” will be held April 6, 2013 at George Washington University.

Blogger Rosland Gammon has interviewed more than 500 business journalists over the last four years about how they’ve done great stories. She has shared their tips and techniques with you here on BusinessJournalism.org.

Power Searching for Business Journalists: Self-guided training

By Reynolds Staff on Mar 18, 2013 in Business Beats, Investigative, Self-guided training, Training Archives

The free Google+ Hangout, “Power Searching for Business Journalists,” was originally held on March 19, 2013. Not often do you get the chance to learn new search skills from the scientist at Google whose job is to understand users’ search satisfaction. In this free, hourlong, online training, Google senior research scientist Daniel M. Russell will [...]