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Workshop Registration
The Reynolds Center has announced its 2009-10 free workshop schedule.
Select a workshop and register from the drop-down menu below.
Online Seminars
The Reynolds Center registration for Fall 2009 free online seminars.
When Cash is King
By James Gentry
Independent Insight
By Dick Weiss
A Dream Realized
By Kelly Carr
Journalists and Financial Advice
By Chris Roush
The Elements of Business Journal Style
By Henry Dubroff
Local Clarity
The troubled economy continues to dominate business reporting. The following stories show that the big issues and consequences of the financial crisis need not be ceded to writers with the national press but can be handled quite well by good business reporters wherever they work -- in this case at The Press of Atlantic City, San Francisco Chronicle and The Des Moines Register.
Click here to send me an e-mail with some great business stories you’ve written or seen. You could see your story touted here as one of the best in the nation.
Note: Each headline contains a link so that you can read the stories online. Some sites will require you to register first. It's worth taking the time.
3 A case of balance as credit card rules change
Tom Abate of the San Francisco Chronicle
Abate reports that issuers of credit cards have changed their rules significantly. He reports on the big picture and offers tips on how consumers can deal with the changes. But notice, too, how he is able to find credit card users who have particular issues that will strike a chord with many readers.
2Economic strongholds in Iowa now vulnerable
Donnelle Eller of The Des Moines Register
Talk about bringing home the international credit crisis! Eller does so brilliantly for her Iowa readers by pointing out that what happens in Uzbekistan doesn't stay in Uzbekistan but reverberates in Clarion, Iowa. This story does a great job, too, of putting Iowa’s entire economy in perspective from one sector to the next. This is the third straight edition of Dick’s Picks in which a Register story has been listed. Good work in the heartland.
1American Dream is still alive, it’s just harder for the middle class to achieve it
Erik Ortiz of The Press of Atlantic City
Ortiz writes that the American Dream is eluding more and more of the middle class but the Dream lives on. His story resonates through his reliance on detailed case histories of how a variety of people are coping in hard times. An elegant ending, too.
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Copyright © 2009 Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism
The Reynolds Center has announced its 2009-10 free workshop schedule.
Select a workshop and register from the drop-down menu below.
The Reynolds Center registration for Fall 2009 free online seminars.
By James Gentry
Independent Insight
By Dick Weiss
A Dream Realized
By Kelly Carr
Journalists and Financial Advice
By Chris Roush
The Elements of Business Journal Style
By Henry Dubroff
Local Clarity
The troubled economy continues to dominate business reporting. The following stories show that the big issues and consequences of the financial crisis need not be ceded to writers with the national press but can be handled quite well by good business reporters wherever they work -- in this case at The Press of Atlantic City, San Francisco Chronicle and The Des Moines Register.
Click here to send me an e-mail with some great business stories you’ve written or seen. You could see your story touted here as one of the best in the nation.
Note: Each headline contains a link so that you can read the stories online. Some sites will require you to register first. It's worth taking the time.
3 A case of balance as credit card rules change
Tom Abate of the San Francisco Chronicle
Abate reports that issuers of credit cards have changed their rules significantly. He reports on the big picture and offers tips on how consumers can deal with the changes. But notice, too, how he is able to find credit card users who have particular issues that will strike a chord with many readers.
2Economic strongholds in Iowa now vulnerable
Donnelle Eller of The Des Moines Register
Talk about bringing home the international credit crisis! Eller does so brilliantly for her Iowa readers by pointing out that what happens in Uzbekistan doesn't stay in Uzbekistan but reverberates in Clarion, Iowa. This story does a great job, too, of putting Iowa’s entire economy in perspective from one sector to the next. This is the third straight edition of Dick’s Picks in which a Register story has been listed. Good work in the heartland.
1American Dream is still alive, it’s just harder for the middle class to achieve it
Erik Ortiz of The Press of Atlantic City
Ortiz writes that the American Dream is eluding more and more of the middle class but the Dream lives on. His story resonates through his reliance on detailed case histories of how a variety of people are coping in hard times. An elegant ending, too.
Copyright © 2009 Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism