For more than 20 years, Leslie Wayne was an award-winning New York Times business reporter, covering a broad swath of corporate America. In spring 2010, she was the Reynolds Visiting Professor in Business Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
While at the Times, she specialized in investigative and enterprise [...]
University of Arizona journalism professor David Cuillier offers advice on how to unlock the power of public records. In this video, he provided tips at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication as part of a 45-day tour of the United States called Access Across America. The 2010 training tour is funded by [...]
Leonard Downie Jr. spent 44 years at The Washington Post, serving as executive editor from 1991 to 2008, a tenure during which the paper won 25 Pulitzer Prizes. He was an investigative reporter, editor on the local and national news staffs, London correspondent and managing editor and helped supervise the newspaper’s Watergate coverage.
He is vice [...]
By Joe Grimm
Some reporters pan for the nuggets on their beat. Others use maps to find the buried treasures. Joe Grimm, who writes the “Ask the Recruiter” column for Poynter.org, explains three styles of beat mapping.
One maps relationships, one charts coverage plans and one details the insides of organizations or industries.
Take a look through [...]
As a master of the art of networking, former newsroom recruiter Joe Grimm shared his secrets on how to connect with the sources who will improve your coverage, as well as those who can help you take the next step up professionally.
In his 18 years as the recruiter for the Detroit Free Press, Grimm helped [...]
The fast-paced world of the Web places special demands on writers and editors. That’s especially important when posting fast-breaking news or handling complex information – numbers, cumbersome titles, misunderstood terms, precise attribution. This Webinar will help writers and editors write with clarity, efficiency, brevity and transparency. Participants will study story approaches and language use that enhance the [...]
We were in Philly Friday, Jan. 22, for a daylong workshop on “Tracking the Economic Recovery in Your Town.”
Sessions included one from Ryan Sweet, senior economist with Moody’s Economy.com, who talked about which local economic statistics are worth following.
Sweet was joined by Melissa Preddy, who brainstormed story ideas and identified resources for local economic stories. [...]
These classroom videos are from Reynolds Week 2010, Day 4 lectures. The videos are captured by automated equipment in the classroom and are unedited. You can fast-forward through breaks and there is a notation after each VIDEO link that points out when in the video the lecture begins.
Click on the link and then click on [...]
These classroom videos are from Reynolds Week 2010, Day 3 lectures. The videos are captured by automated equipment in the classroom and are unedited. You can fast-forward through breaks and there is a notation after each VIDEO link that points out when in the video the lecture begins.
Click on the link and then click on [...]
