These competitive fellowships, valued at $2,000, cover all seminar expenses. The seminars take place during Reynolds Business Journalism Week at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where the Reynolds Center is based.

"The dramatic increase in number of applications this year underscores the strong interest journalists have in improving their financial skills and the importance universities are now placing on business journalism," said Andrew Leckey, president of the Reynolds Center. "It is an honor to have these fellows join us this January."

The financials seminar covers stock markets, financial statements, options and SEC documents. The professors seminar covers how to teach a hands-on, university course in business journalism.

  The fellows are:
 
  Strictly Financials Seminar Fellows
 
  --  Debbie Blumberg, reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, New York
  --  Dave Dreeszen, business editor, Sioux City Journal, Iowa
  --  Lynn Ducey, staff writer, The Phoenix Business Journal
  --  Karina Frayter, business producer, CNN America, New York
  --  Joanisabel Gonzalez, staff reporter, El Nuevo Dia, Guaynabo, Puerto
      Rico
  --  Jason Hidalgo, business reporter, Reno Gazette-Journal, Nevada
  --  Brenda Krebs, Business Monday editor, The Miami Herald
  --  Rob Neill, business producer, MSNBC.com, Redmond, Wash.
  --  Jeanine Poggi, reporter, TheStreet.com, New York
  --  Rachel Tobin Ramos, business reporter The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  --  Hani Shawwa, TV producer, Reuters Insider, New York
  --  Emily Stanitz, producer, Bloomberg Television, Washington
 
  Business Journalism Professors Seminar Fellows
 
  --  Adrianne Flynn, Capital News Service bureau director, University of
      Maryland, College Park, Md.
  --  Emily Burch Harris, lecturer and student newspaper adviser, North
      Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, N.C.
  --  James Kates, assistant professor, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
  --  Herbert Lowe, professional in residence, Marquette University,
      Milwaukee, Wisc.
  --  Ceci Rodgers, adjunct instructor, Northwestern University, Evanston,
      Ill.
  --  Buck Ryan, associate professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.
  --  Steve Schifferes, professor, City University, London, England
  --  John C. Schmeltzer, chair, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.
  --  Claire Serant, assistant professor, St. John's University, Queens,
      N.Y.
  --  Sheila L. Tefft, senior lecturer, Emory University, Atlanta
  --  Leslie Wayne, visiting professional, Arizona State University, Phoenix
  --  Nailene Chou Wiest, director, Global Business Journalism, Tsinghua
      University, Beijing
 

The fourth annual seminars will be led by award-winning professors and journalists, including three-time Pulitzer winner Walt Bogdanich, business investigations editor for The New York Times.

A highlight will be a discussion with the legendary investigative-reporting duo of Don Barlett and Jim Steele, along with the awarding of trophies to the 2009 winners of the Reynolds Center's Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism.

Deadline to apply for the 2011 seminars is Nov. 1, 2010. More information is available at BusinessJournalism.org.

Questions? Contact Andrew Leckey, Reynolds Center president, at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or 602-496-9186.

ABOUT THE CENTER

Almost 9,000 journalists have benefited from free training from the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism since 2003. Find information on its upcoming free workshops, as well as daily tips on how to cover business better, at BusinessJournalism.org.

The center 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, Nev., it is one of the largest private foundations in the United States.

ASU's Cronkite School, named for the long-time CBS news anchor, serves more than 1,200 undergraduate and master's journalism students in a $71 million building that opened in fall 2008 in downtown Phoenix.

Source: Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism