Workshop application: Uncovering the best local business stories

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to cover local business as a beat – not just store openings and press-releases, but everything from business-related stories in the municipal budget to the local economic development agency to local business fallout from national economic stories.

You don’t need a business beat reporter to attend this workshop – it’s geared toward community newspapers and reporters who cover business as just one of their beats.

The workshop will arm you with resources, tips and ideas to bring more meaningful business coverage to your community. 

Co-sponsored by TCCJ, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, and the Texas Press Association, the workshop will feature Carlie Kollath, business reporter for the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal; Chris Roush, business journalism professor at the University of North Carolina; Doug Swanson, investigative projects editor for the Dallas Morning News; and Linda Austin, executive director of the Reynolds Center.

To learn more about the workshop:  Click here.

Date:  Thursday, April 26

Cost:  The workshop is free. 

Place:  The Chambers, Brown Lupton Student Center, TCU campus

Workshop times:  Check-in for registrants begins at 8:30 a.m.  The workshop starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m.

Lunch:  Provided at no cost to registrants.

Parking:  Available on campus close to site of workshop; specific parking information and directions will be sent to registrants.

If you are registering more than one person from your newspaper, please have each registrant go to this application form and register separately.