Strictly Financials Seminar

What are the next folos on the financial meltdown?
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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 [...]

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Why should journalists use social media?
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Why should journalists use social media?

For journalists, social-networking sites can be used as a communication tool, a source for news stories, a breaking-news platform, another place to publish content and a way to grow audience.
Robin J. Phillips, Web managing editor for BusinessJournalism.org, made those points to a combined lunch-time session of business journalists and business journalism professors during Reynolds Business [...]

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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
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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. [...]

Agenda for 2010 Strictly Financials seminar
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Agenda for 2010 Strictly Financials seminar

These are some highlights from the agenda for the Strictly Financials Seminar held in Phoenix during Reynolds Business Journalism Week, Jan. 4-8.
STRICTLY FINANCIALS SEMINAR
MONDAY—Jan. 4, 20106-9 pm  – Fiesta Bowl-watching party on 16- by 9-foot screen   Boise State vs. Texas Christian University Optional social function with beer, wine and snacksForum, 2nd Floor, Cronkite [...]

Fellowships awarded to 23 business journalists
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Fellowships awarded to 23 business journalists

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism awarded 12 fellowships to its “Strictly Financials Seminar” for working journalists and 12 fellowships to its “Business Journalism Professors Seminar.”
This year’s Fellows are:
STRICTLY FINANCIALS SEMINAR FELLOWS• Debbie Blumberg, reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, New York• Dave Dreeszen, business editor, Sioux City Journal, Iowa• Lynn Ducey, staff [...]

Business journalists arrive for Reynolds Week
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Business journalists arrive for Reynolds Week

We will have full coverage next week of the two seminars that make up Reynolds Business Journalism Week, Jan. 5-8 in Phoenix.
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism awarded 12 fellowships to its “Strictly Financials Seminar” for working journalists and 12 fellowships to its “Business Journalism Professors Seminar.”
Reynolds Week is held at Arizona [...]

Call for Strictly Financials Fellows 2011
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Call for Strictly Financials Fellows 2011

 
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is offering fellowships worth $2,000 for four days of intensive study in financials and accounting Jan. 4-7, 2011, in Phoenix.
Limited to 12 professional journalists with at least two years of business journalism experience, the fourth annual “Strictly Financials Seminar” will take place during Reynolds Business Journalism Week at [...]

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Behind the biz beat: Brad Hem

Brad Hem, a business reporter at the Houston Chronicle, wishes publicly traded companies were required to release as much information as government agencies.
At the Chronicle, he regularly writes about the economy, labor issues, Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial startups.
Below he talks about sifting through documents, a typical day on the business beat and the stories [...]