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Check out the Reynolds Center's Fall Schedule of Free Training in Business Journalism

PHOENIX, July 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If your training budget's been squeezed, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism can help with free training in business journalism. Check out its fall training schedule.

The center has free workshops on computer-assisted reporting in Seattle and Cleveland, on covering business on tribal lands in Fort Lauderdale and on taming info overload in New York, plus a business journalism boot camp in Minneapolis.

It also offers a business journalism boot camp at the SPJ/RTDNA Excellence in Journalism Conference in New Orleans and a covering the green economy workshop at the Society of Environmental Journalists Conference in Miami.

In addition, it has free, live Webinars on unlocking financial statements, increasing freelance sales, and conducting quick-hit business investigations.

And it offers all-expenses-paid, intensive training in financials in Phoenix.

Plus, the center provides free self-guided training and daily tips off the news at BusinessJournalism.org.

REYNOLDS CENTER'S FALL FREE-TRAINING SCHEDULE
Learn in just one hour a day with these free Webinars:
Unlocking Financial Statements: July 18-22.
Sales Strategies for Freelance Business Journalists: Aug. 16-19.
Quick-Hit Business Investigations - Concept to Execution: Dec. 6.
And don't miss these workshops:
Covering Business on Tribal Lands: Fort Lauderdale, July 13. Free.
Be a Better Business Watchdog - CAR for Business Journalists: Seattle, Sept. 13; Cleveland, Nov. 8. Free.
Business Journalism Boot Camp for All Journalists: New Orleans, Sept. 25. Part of SPJ/RTDNA Excellence in Journalism Conference. $25.
Business Journalism Boot Camp: Minneapolis, Oct. 4. Free.
Digital Efficiency for Business Journalists - 36 Tips to Tame Info Overload: New York, Oct. 13. Free.
Covering the Green Economy at Society of Environmental Journalists Conference: Miami, Oct. 19. $60, plus $20 to join SEJ.

Apply today for all-expenses-paid financial training:
Strictly Financials Seminar: Phoenix, Jan. 2-5.
To suggest topics for training or host a workshop, please contact Executive Director Linda Austin at 602-496-9187. Please sign up for biweekly updates on upcoming free training.

ABOUT THE REYNOLDS CENTER
Since 2003, more than 10,000 journalists have learned to cover business better through free training from the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. The center is at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University's Phoenix campus. The center offers regional workshops and Webinars, as well as daily tips at BusinessJournalism.org.

It is funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, a national philanthropic organization founded in 1954 by the late media entrepreneur for whom it is named. Headquartered in Las Vegas, it is one of the largest private foundations in the United States.

SOURCE Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism