The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is a nonprofit center housed at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication that offers business journalism training for all journalists.
The center is funded through a $3.5 million, three-year grant from the Las Vegas, Nevada-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, which includes this BusinessJournalism.org Web site designed specifically for business journalists and other journalists who may cover business in the course of their work.
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has now trained more than 8,000 journalists on business issues and coverage.
The center's Web site, launched in February 2004, focuses on the business reporting needs of publications of all sizes, featuring advice from writers and editors. It has attracted quality contributors including Diana Henriques, investigative business journalist for The New York Times; James Flanigan, economics writer for The Los Angeles Times; Anne Marie Squeo, reporter for The Wall Street Journal; and Trudy Lieberman, director of the Center for Consumer Health Choices at Consumers Union.
About the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation:
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation is a national philanthropic organization founded in 1954 by the late media entrepreneur for whom it is named. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, it is one of the largest private foundations in the U.S.
About the Cronkite School at ASU:
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, named in honor of the longtime CBS news anchor in 1984, is a leading professional journalism school with nearly 2,000 undergraduate and master's students. The Center moved to the Cronkite School in July 2006.
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