Do you know how to interpret economic and business development news? Do you feel as if we walk a tightrope between hype and despair? Are we headed for disaster or beginning a recovery? As small/midsize business leaders, how can we tell, and where should we look for helpful information?
I am pleased to announce the monthly Whale Hunters Expert Series teleconference on Wednesday February 17 at 12 noon Eastern time (that’s 11 am Central, 10 am Mountain, and 9 am Pacific) , with our featured guest Jason DeRose, Supervising Editor, NPR’s Economic Training Project.
We’ll be discussing some guidelines for processing economic news as small business owners plan for their companies’ short term and long term directions. Much of today’s economic news is hype and hyperbole. Instead, we will be talking about what kind of evidence we should look for, how can we tell if a report is sensible, how can we best interpret the information that we hear, see, and read. And we’ll have this conversation in the company of an expert who is responsible for training journalists to improve their ecoomic news coverage, especially at the local level.
Jason DeRose is the Supervising Editor for National Public Radio’s (NPR) Economic Training Project. He works with local member station reporters as an editor, trainer and mentor to improve business and economics coverage throughout the public radio system. He is based at NPR West in Culver City, California.
Prior to his current position, Jason worked as an editor on NPR’s mid-day news magazine Day to Day, as a reporter and producer at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., and as an editor, host, reporter and producer at member stations in Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis and Tampa.
He’s served as a mentor and trainer for NPR’s “Next Generation Radio Project” and Chicago Public Radio’s “Ear to the Ground Project” — programs that teach aspiring high school and college students public radio’s unique reporting style.
Outside of public radio, Jason has worked as an oral history interviewer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and as a journalism trainer at the International Center for Journalists. He has also taught journalism ethics, radio reporting, multimedia storytelling and religion reporting at DePaul University in Chicago and at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Jason graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, with majors in religion and English. He also holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School and studied at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
The call is free but you need to register first at http://thewhalehuntersexpertseries.eventbrite.com/ — you will receive dial-in information. Call format is 45-minutes of interview with Jason followed by 15-minutes of Q & A with the participants.
I believe small business is the future of the American economy. This discussion is all about how we can get news and information that s relevant to our needs and how we can intrepret that news.I hope you will join us!