Free Business Journalism Workshop Offered by Lemke Department of Journalism
The Walter J. Lemke department of journalism at the University of Arkansas has partnered with the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism to bring free training in business journalism to the community journalists of Arkansas.
The daylong workshop, “Uncovering the Best Local Business Stories,” will take place April 12 in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. It is free for journalists and journalism students and faculty, but registration is required.
Instructors include Linda Austin of the Reynolds Center; Carlie Kollath Wells formerly of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal; Jeff Porter of the Association of Health Care Journalists; and Chris Roush of the University of North Carolina.
Attendees will learn how to find stories in the business of government, and how to cover economic-development agencies at the state and local levels.
The workshop will also cover locating public information on private companies, finding stories in publicly available databases, learning about small local businesses, and localizing national and international business stories for local audiences.
This free training is geared to the needs of generalists in smaller newsrooms and business journalists looking to jump-start their local coverage.
For more information, email Linda Austin, Reynolds Center executive director, at linda.austin@businessjournalism.org.
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