CENTER FOR INTEGRATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF JOURNALISM
 
 

Free Business Writing Journalism Workshop

Vermillion, SD

 
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business will sponsor a free one-day business journalism workshop on May 1 at the Al Neuharth Media Center in Vermillion, S.D.

The "Craft of Business Writing" is open to journalists who wish to improve their writing skills in the field of business. Seminar participants will learn how to better explain financial terms, use a compelling narrative style, develop story ideas and write effective profiles of companies and executives.

Presenters include Dick Weiss, former writing coach and assistant metropolitan editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Chris Roush, a business journalism professor at the University of North Carolina and former business journalist with BusinessWeek, Bloomberg News and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Registration for the workshop is available online at www.businessjournalism.org/content/7230.cfm. For questions, contact Lori Tait, project manager, at 703-715-3332 or LTait@americanpressinstitute.org.

More information about the Reynolds Center at the American Press Institute in Reston, Va., is available at www.BusinessJournalism.org

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