Reynolds Week 2010

Videos of Reynolds Week sessions are online

Recorded sessions from the week full of business journalism seminars:
VIDEOS: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4

Reynolds Week 2010 seminar videos – Day 4

By Reynolds Staff on Jan 11, 2010 in Podcasts, Reynolds Week 2010, Reynolds Week 2010 Blog, TrendingTopic, Tutorials

These classroom videos are from Reynolds Week 2010, Day 4 lectures. The videos are captured by automated equipment in the classroom and are unedited. You can fast-forward through breaks and there is a notation after each VIDEO link that points out when in the video the lecture begins.
Click on the link and then click on [...]

Reynolds Week 2010 seminar videos – Day 3

By Reynolds Staff on Jan 11, 2010 in Reynolds Week 2010, Reynolds Week 2010 Blog, TrendingTopic, Tutorials

These classroom videos are from Reynolds Week 2010, Day 3 lectures. The videos are captured by automated equipment in the classroom and are unedited. You can fast-forward through breaks and there is a notation after each VIDEO link that points out when in the video the lecture begins.
Click on the link and then click on [...]

What are the next folos on the financial meltdown?

Gary Trennepohl, president of the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, offered these potential stories to the Strictly Financials fellows, following up on the credit crisis and market crash of 2008:

What is the future for the smart securitization of assets? Who will regulate them, and who will rate them?
Is there another crash coming in the housing market?
What will [...]

Where will grads find journalism jobs?

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 in [...]

Can you beat the stock market?

In short, no, says Gary Trennepohl, president of the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa.
Speaking to Strictly Financial fellows, he says that the market is so efficient that it’s almost impossible to beat it. New information is widely, quickly and cheaply available and is rapidly reflected in security prices.
There are two main camps of analysts of stocks:

Technical analysts [...]

Use ratios to decode financial statements

Gary Trennepohl, president of Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, offers these tips to the Strictly Financials fellows in how to decode financial statements. Trennepohl is the former dean of the College of Business Administration at the OSU campus in Stillwater.
He suggests using these ratios to judge a company’s profitability. For all, the higher the number, the better. [...]

Award honors two inspirational business series

By Kelly Carr on Jan 07, 2010 in Reynolds Week 2010 Blog, TrendingTopic

This year’s winners of the Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism are the type of journalists that get your blood pumping.
Their work exposes fraud, holds powers accountable and highlights the voiceless. They’ve got enough passion for the craft to inspire the jaded and the series they penned in 2008 prove that investigative business [...]

Reynolds Week 2010 seminar videos – Day 2

By Reynolds Staff on Jan 06, 2010 in Reynolds Week 2010, Reynolds Week 2010 Blog, TrendingTopic, Tutorials

These classroom videos are from Reynolds Week 2010, Day 2 lectures. The videos are captured by automated equipment in the classroom and are unedited. You can fast-forward through breaks and there is a notation after each VIDEO link that points out when in the video the lecture begins.
Click on the link and then click on [...]