Broadcast Business Journalists Talk About Competition at a Free One-Day Workshop in New York City

Broadcast Business Journalists Talk About Competition at a Free One-Day Workshop in New York City

NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Registration is open for a free daylong workshop in New York City on "Broadcast Business Journalism" featuring journalists from CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Fox Business Network and "The Nightly Business Report."

The April 7, 2008 event will cover the basics of business, investigative coverage and emerging trends in broadcast business news.

Competition in broadcast business journalism will be discussed by the panel of Scott Cohn of CNBC; Shibani Joshi of Fox Business Network; John Meehan of Bloomberg News; and Scott Gurvey of "The Nightly Business Report."

Additional presenters are keynote speaker Myron Kandel, founding financial editor of CNN; Michelle Leder, editor and founder of footnoted.org; and CNN senior investigative producer Kathleen Johnston.

This workshop is sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and hosted by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

"Broadcast business news has never been hotter, energized by greater competition and an active business scene," said Andrew Leckey, Director of the Reynolds Center. "The workshop will consider the basics of business coverage and broadcast's increasing role in it."

The Reynolds Center is based at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and funded by a grant from the Las Vegas, Nevada-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

Registration will close on April 2, 2008. View the complete agenda and sign up at www.businessjournalism.org

For more information contact Andrew Leckey, Director of the Reynolds Center, at 480-727-9186.

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Source: Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism

CONTACT: Andrew Leckey, Director of the Reynolds Center,
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http://www.businessjournalism.org/

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