We Mean Business

Originally, the “How to Cover Money” podcast series, ”We Mean Business” is produced by The Reynolds Center for Business Journalism, designed specifically for journalists who want to cover business better on their beats.

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Episodes

Saturday Jul 09, 2016

Glenn Hall, Executive Editor at the Washington Post shares more tips for creating winning business investigations. He originally shared these tips at Reynolds Week 2016.Megan Calcote hosts the podcast series.

Friday Jun 24, 2016

Pat Beall of The Palm Beach Post sat down with Katherine Fitzgerald and Eddie Keller of the Reynolds Center to discuss her award winning work, "Dying for Care." Beall's investigation won the Bronze Award at the 2015 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism. Visit businessjournalism.org to read her four-part investigation.Megan Calcote hosts the podcast series.

Friday Jun 10, 2016

Glenn Hall, Executive Editor at the Washington Post shares his tips for creating winning business investigations. He originally shared these tips at Reynolds Week 2016.Megan Calcote hosts the podcast series.

Friday May 06, 2016

Ricardo Baca, editor of The Denver Post’s website The Cannabist; and Kevin Dale, executive editor of Arizona PBS’s Cronkite News, who directed pot coverage as a top editor at the Post, share more insights on covering the legal marijuana industry. They originally shared these tips at Reynolds Week 2016. Megan Calcote, program coordinator for the Reynolds Center, hosts the podcast series. 

Covering the Business of Pot

Friday Apr 22, 2016

Friday Apr 22, 2016

Ricardo Baca, editor of The Denver Post’s website The Cannabist; and Kevin Dale, executive editor of Arizona PBS’s Cronkite News, who directed pot coverage as a top editor at the Post, share their insights in covering the legal marijuana industry. They originally shared these tips at Reynolds Week 2016. Megan Calcote, program coordinator for the Reynolds Center, hosts the podcast series.

Generating Story Ideas

Thursday Apr 07, 2016

Thursday Apr 07, 2016

In this week’s episode, Jennifer Conlin, New York Times contributor and founder of Creative Voice, shares tips for generating. She originally shared these tips at SABEW 2015 during a session on covering regional economics.Megan Calcote, program coordinator for the Reynolds Center, hosts the podcast series.

Covering Campaign Finance

Friday Mar 11, 2016

Friday Mar 11, 2016

Leslie Wayne, adjunct faculty at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, shares tips for covering campaign finance. She originally shared these tips at Reynolds Week 2016.

Databases You Can Use

Friday Feb 26, 2016

Friday Feb 26, 2016

This week, Steve Doig, data journalist and Knight Chair in Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communciation and Evan Wyloge, senior reporter at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting share databases you can use for your business reporting. They originally shared this list of databases and tips for using them at Reynolds Week 2016.
If you'd like to visit some of the databases discussed during the podcast, visit businessjournalism.org

Friday Feb 12, 2016

This week's episode features Christopher Waddell, associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario Canada, and excerpts of his session at the 2015 Canadian Association of Journalists conference. Megan Calcote, program coordinator for the Reynolds Center, hosts the podcast series.

Series Finale and Greatest Tips

Saturday Jun 20, 2015

Saturday Jun 20, 2015

Today we take a look back at some of the best tips we got from all of the amazing journalists that joined us for this series. If you missed any episodes, feel free to circle back to any of our previous episodes and, of course, keeping thinking like a business reporter!

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At the Reynolds Center

The Reynolds Center for Business Journalism was established in 2003 with the goal of improving the quality of media coverage of business and the economy. Since then our mission has been to promote the importance of business journalism among journalism students, give journalists tools to improve their business coverage and help freelancers navigate working with a variety of publications.

Over the years the Reynolds Center has trained more than 30,000 journalists and educators through in-person and online training throughout the country. We have worked with a wide range of freelance writers and collaborated with academic professors and departments in order to continuously improve the quality of content we produce including ebooks, podcasts, and instructional fun videos. 

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