By Randall Smith When you think of a holiday present for your favorite business journalist, here’s a reading recommendation: ‘Our Iceberg is Melting’ by John Kotter, the Harvard professor who is an expert in transformational change. Look around. Blockbuster, Borders and Eastman Kodak are companies that are in the middle of survival battles because they’ve [...]
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has selected 30 fellows – 15 journalists and 15 professors -for four days of intensive study in business journalism. They will attend separate, all-expenses-paid seminars Jan. 4-7 at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix. Journalists in the Strictly Financials Seminar learn [...]
By Randall Smith When I was a young business editor in the 1980s, Ewing Kauffman invited me to his Kansas City office for a chat. Kauffman, who made billions in the pharmacy business and was founder of the Kansas City Royals, said he wanted to get to know me. When I entered his office, I [...]
ATTENTION: Experienced business journalists and prospective business journalism professors. The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is offering 24 fellowships worth $2,000 each for four days of study in business journalism – Jan. 4-7 in Phoenix. Fellowships cover training, lodging, materials and most meals. Fellows receive a $500 stipend to offset travel and [...]
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism invites AEJMC attendees to apply for an all-expenses-paid, four-day seminar on how to teach a college course in business journalism. The fourth annual Business Journalism Professors Seminar will be held Jan. 4-7, 2011, at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in [...]
By Randall Smith The headlines are rapid fire. A British oil rig blows up in the gulf on April 20, killing 11 workers. The Greek government, which has hidden years of overspending, sets off a European financial crisis. North Korea torpedoes a South Korean navy ship, killing 46 innocent sailors. So far this [...]
The Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, will conduct a memorial service for Dave Morrow at 2 p.m. Feb. 26. Morrow, who died Feb. 1 at 49 after a monthlong bout with cancer, was the first Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism at the school. Dean Jerry Ceppos said those [...]
Leslie Wayne, an award-winning business reporter at The New York Times, is the first Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professor in Business Journalism at Arizona State University. She will teach graduate and undergraduate courses during the spring semester in the business journalism specialization at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The position is [...]
Jodi Schneider, a senior editor for American Banker in Washington who handles newsroom recruiting, predicts that jobs for new grads will be in specialty pubs and Web sites, not small-town newspapers. In addition to understanding their niche — such as energy or politics — and multimedia, new grads need the ability “to decipher complicated information [...]
