Biz Journalism Professors

Quick chat with Universidad de Las Américas’ Maria Albertina Navas Leoro

By Sarah Pringle on Jan 11, 2012

Maria Albertina Navas Leoro, who teaches business and online journalism at the Universidad de Las Américas in Quito, Ecuador, detailed the challenges faced by business journalists in less politically stable countries. Leoro was a Business Journalism Professors Fellow during this year’s Reynolds Business Journalism Week. Before joining academia, Leoro was the editor of LIDERES, a [...]

Quick chat with DePaul University’s Matthew Ragas

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 [...]

Quick chat with Reynolds Visiting Professor Rob Wells

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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

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, [...]

Reynolds Center picks 36 fellows for intensive business journalism training

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has selected 36 fellows – 20 journalists and 16 professors – for four days of intensive study in business journalism.

The fellows will attend separate, all-expenses-paid seminars Jan. 2-5 at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix. Journalists in the Strictly Financials Seminar learn how to dissect financial statements and SEC documents. Prospective business journalism professors receive training in how to teach a university-level course in business journalism.

Apply for all-expenses-paid fellowships to attend Business Journalism Professors Seminar 2012

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is offering fellowships worth $2,000 for four days of intensive study in how to teach an undergraduate course in business journalism Jan. 2-5, 2012, in Phoenix.

Limited to 12 prospective professors, the sixth annual “Business Journalism Professors Seminar” will take place during Reynolds Business Journalism Week at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.