Free Training

This session on June 21 during the Investigative Reporter & Editors Conference is designed to help you understand shell companies and their role in fraud. Your instructor is Kelly Carr, a Reynolds Center staffer and freelance investigative journalist whose reporting on the use of shell and shelf companies won a 2012 Gerald Loeb Award,

Pulitzer winners David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab headline this session at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference: Cracking Corporate Corruption at Wal-Mart. The duo's investigation into corruption in the world's biggest retailer won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

Polish your skills in computer-assisted reporting (CAR) and learn how to hold local businesses accountable with this free, daylong workshop preceding the Native American Journalists Association Convention. Even if you've never touched an Excel spreadsheet before, you will leave this hands-on workshop on July 18 in Phoenix with the skills you need to begin analyzing the wealth of information available in public databases about businesses.

Whether you’re working in a mainstream news organization or striking out on your own with a blog, news site or freelance business, we’re all media entrepreneurs these days. In this July 31 session at the NABJ 2013 Convention in Orlando, learn how to brand and market yourself and to pitch your ideas, plus understand the basics of financial and time management. And leave with five things to do when you get home to advance your career as an entrepreneur.

The economy is still the biggest story going, and this workshop will equip you with the story ideas and skills you need to tackle economic stories on any beat. This workshop is presented by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, and it precedes the Asian American Journalists Association's 23rd Annual Convention. Workshop attendees are not required to attend the convention in New York City and can attend this pre-convention workshop for just $20.

In 2013, more and more newsrooms will revisit their social media strategy and ask, “What’s our return on investment?” How do we know if our newsroom is doing social “correctly”? What does this mean for our organization’s bottom line? This session, which will help you answer those questions, will be part of Boston: Uncommon, NLGJA's 2013 convention, which will be held in Boston Aug. 22-25.

You keep hearing about “fracking” in western Pennsylvania and North Dakota, but can’t imagine how it would affect your community. In this NLGJA convention session on Aug. 23 in Boston, Marilyn Geewax, a senior business editor with NPR, will help you understand how this unleashing of massive supplies of fossil fuels is changing all of our lives.

Whether you’re working in a mainstream news organization or striking out on your own with a blog, news site or freelance business, we’re all media entrepreneurs these days. In this workshop before the Excellence in Journalism (EIJ) 2013 Conference in Anaheim, Calif., learn how to brand and market yourself and to pitch your ideas, plus understand the basics of financial and time management.

Business stories - or stories with strong business angles - have won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in each of the last eight years. Business is fertile territory for investigative reporting, but all too often is overlooked by local reporters. Get the skills you need to identify and develop local investigative business stories at a free, daylong workshop in Madison, Wisc., on Saturday, Sept. 28.

Covering public companies involves plowing through the documents they file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Have you ever wondered if you're missing good stories because you don't know where or what to look for?

Poke behind the winners of most major investigative awards from the Pulitzer to Barlett & Steele to the Loebs, and you’ll usually find a database. Michael J. Berens, who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, calls databases, especially those you put together yourself, the “secret ingredient” in award-winning work. Join him for this two-hour webinar Oct. 22-23 and learn how to break out of the pack and create "powerful works from facts that are hiding in plain sight," as Berens puts it.

Trying to find new sources? In this one-hour webinar Nov. 13, here’s your chance to learn the tools and techniques that competitive-intelligence experts use every day to find people who know their stuff. These new sources can lend credibility to your work. During this free, hourlong webinar - Sourcing: Tips and Tricks from a Corporate Sleuth - the principal in a competitive-intelligence firm will teach you how to harness social media to identify "influencers" - both regionally and nationally - in industries you cover, as well as how to contact them effectively.

You keep hearing about “fracking” in western Pennsylvania and North Dakota, but can’t imagine how it would affect your community. In this one-hour, free webinar, Marilyn Geewax, a senior business editor with NPR, will help you understand how this unleashing of massive supplies of fossil fuels is changing all of our lives.