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The Reynolds Center's future free online trainings include Unlocking Financial Statements July 19-23 and How to be an entrepreneur as a business journalist from August 9-13.
9:00 a.m. Introductions: What’s your story idea? – Robin J. Phillips, BusinessJournalism.org M.E.
9:30 a.m. Generating ideas and executing them while covering your beat – Alec Klein
10:00 a.m. Interviewing techniques — Alec; Dealing with sensitive sources – Gary Cohn
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Case Study: The Pulitzer-winning ship-breakers stories – Gary
12:15 p.m. Box lunches provided
1:15 p.m. Using Public Documents – Alec, Gary
2:00 p.m. Case Study: AOL stories – Alec
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Organizing and presenting investigations on multiple platforms – Alec
3:45 p.m. Write your story pitch, Wall Street Journal-style
4:05 p.m. Feedback on pitches — Alec, Gary
4:30 p.m. Adjourn
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