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Reuters journalist resigns from SABEW board
by Chris Roush
Walden Siew, a business journalist at Reuters, has resigned from the board at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Siew joined Reuters in August 2006 to cover credit markets and was a 2008 Gerald Loeb and National Journalism awards nominee for his reports on the global credit crisis. He is also a member of the Asian American Journalists Association.”
“The executive board knows, and it’s due to my job is ramping up,” said Siew in an email to Talking Biz News. “You can say it’s to focus on my global markets forum project.”
Siew also is a past winner of SABEW’s Best in Business award; the Deadline Club; the Detroit Press Club’s International Wheel Award (all in 2006); the Virginia Press Association (1998); and the Keystone Press Award (1995). As a Freeman Foundation fellow at George Washington University, he focused on China studies. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and Boston University, where he majored in international relations.
“I am helping SABEW find a replacement, and I’d like to find a diverse candidate if possible to fill the board spot and maybe chair the diversity committee,” said Siew. “If you have any ideas for good candidates, please let me know.”
SABEW will elect new board members next month at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
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Scholarships available to attend SABEW conference
by Chris Roush
More than $10,000 in scholarship and travel aid is available for journalists hoping to attend SABEW’s 50th annual spring conference April 4-6 in Washington, D.C.
The scholarships will be funded by the Goldschmidt Family Foundation, the SABEW Chair at the University of Missouri and SABEW’s Benita Newton Fund for minority journalists.
Warren Watson, SABEW executive director, said four $1,000 Newton scholarships will be given this year, thanks to fund support from Reuters and from CNN Money/ Turner.
Only journalists of color will be considered for the Newton scholarships.
Applicants should send a resume and a 50-word statement about why they are applying. Send both to sabew@sabew.org. Please include “scholarship request” in the subject line of the email.
The SABEW chair, Missouri journalism professor Marty Steffens, is also sponsoring two $1,000 grants for SABEW Best in Business award-winners in the recently concluded competition.
The SABEW chair will also sponsor eight small grants to cover registration for the conference. They are valued at $350 each. BIB winners will be given preference.
The SABEW chair scholarships are open to anyone.
Likewise, The Goldschmidt Foundation will fund one $1,000 scholarship and two $500 scholarships. All journalists are encouraged to apply, but one of the $500 grants will be given to a college student seeking to attend the conference. Applicants should apply in the same manner as listed above.
The deadline for applications is March 8, 2013. Winners will be notified immediately.
SABEW developing biz journalism history site
by Chris Roush
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is developing an online history of business journalism in connection with its 50th anniversary.
The group was founded in 1963 and will formally celebrate turning 50 at its annual meeting in Washington from April 4-7.
The project, known as the American History of Business Journalism, will include several components:
- In-depth looks at significant issues and trends shaping the profession during the past 50 years.
- Biographies of leading business journalists who have passed away.
- First-person pieces from current leaders in the profession about various aspects of their career and craft.
- An extensive inventory of award-winning business journalism over the years.
- A history of SABEW itself plus an archive of the group’s activities and membership since 1963.
- An interactive timeline of business journalism events, people, and significant stories.
“The history is a long-overdue effort to centralize and more formally recognize the work and contributions of business journalists as well as SABEW,” says AHBJ editor Phil Moeller, who headed SABEW in 1988 and now writes for U.S. News & World Report. “We started with a modest goal of slapping together a few nice stories. But nearly everyone contacted for the project stepped forward and volunteered to write or research or scan old SABEW files. It just mushroomed, and now we just hope we can build a scalable web site to contain everything.”
“Throughout the many ups, downs and uncertainties of its 50 years, the society has done much to give business journalism an institutional memory by remaining true to the mission of its founders,” says Dave Beal, another former SABEW president who has written an authoritative history of the group for the history project.
“It has embraced initiatives in education and training to raise the quality of business journalism, adhered to high ethical and professional standards, celebrated the best work in its field and, probably most importantly, built and sustained a robust network where peers can learn from one another and forge lasting friendships.”
“We hope the project’s launch will be only the beginning of building a valuable historic record that can be used by journalists, researchers, and, especially by students,” Moeller added. “With our industry and craft so fundamentally changed by technology, it’s more important than ever to have centralized places to provide information and share the marvelous work that generations of business journalists have done.”
Another history of business journalism site can be found at www.bizjournalismhistory.org.
SABEW announces Best in Business winners
by Chris Roush
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) has announced winners of its 18th Best in Business competition, which honors excellence in business journalism across all news platforms.
Click here for the complete list of winners.
The 134 winners represent all corners of business journalism, from the Providence Journal to The Wall Street Journal, from American Banker to National Underwriter Life & Health, from CNBC to Southern California Public Radio. Bloomberg News and its related magazines, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Businessweek, led with 14 wins; The New York Times had nine winners, and The Huffington Post and CNBC had five each.
“This year’s contest not only had the most entries ever (1,120), but they came from the largest and most diverse group of publications we’ve seen, from online startups to non-profit investigative journalism groups to newspapers to broadcast outlets,” said Jill Jorden Spitz, SABEW president and senior editor for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson.
“This year’s winners should be especially proud because changes to the contest made it tougher than ever to win — judging panels were given strict guidelines about how many prizes they could award based on the number of entries per category.”
Awards will be presented Friday, April 5, at the Marvin Conference Center at George Washington University. SABEW’s 50th annual conference and gala runs April 4-6 and features Federal Reserve vice chair Janet Yellen, AOL chairman Tim Armstrong, former Office of Management and Budget chief David Stockman, and business TV personality Jim Cramer.
More than 200 working journalists and academics served as judges, sifting through the record 1,120 entries from 195 news outlets across 68 categories.
Judges’ comments will be available on the SABEW website later this week.
Two biz reporters win Reynolds fellowship to SABEW
by Chris Roush
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has awarded two journalists a $1,000 fellowship each to attend the 50th annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in Washington April 4-6.
As part of the fellowship, Jacquelinne Mejia, a producer/correspondent for EC Hispanic Media in California, and Darren L. Sands, money editor for BlackEnterprise.com in New York, will also attend the Reynolds Center’s training at the conference.
Mejia has reported at the bilingual media company, EC Hispanic Media, in Norwalk, Calif., since graduating from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in May 2011. She was selected last year for the McGraw-Hill Markets Reporting Program at the International Center for Journalists. In her Twitter profile, she describes herself as a “cosmopolitan Angeleno, proud supporter of Mizzou things {black and gold} and a multimedia producer with a love for business news.”
Sands has covered the business of sports since joining BlackEnterprise.com in September 2012. He is a former Mary C. Wright Fellow at the Village Voice and a Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Fellow at the New York Public Library. He studied communications and history at Hofstra University. He wrote in his application essay: “A few editors have expressed their desire to see me become the next Darren Rovell,” referring to the sports business reporter for ESPN. He says he’s resisted the cliched response: “No, I want to become the next Darren Sands.”
Read more here.
Cramer to keynote SABEW’s 50th anniversary gala
by Chris Roush
CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer will be keynote speaker at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers 50th anniversary gala on Saturday, April 6.
“Cramer is an iconic figure who has contributed greatly to business journalism,” says Jill Jorden Spitz, SABEW president and assistant managing editor/business of the Arizona Star
About 350 persons will attend the black-tie-optional gala at the historic Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington. Conference goers will attend the gala as part of registration to the conference, which will be held at the Marvin Center at George Washington University. Tickets to the gala only are $150, and tables of 10 are $1,450.
Proceeds benefit SABEW’s educational outreach, and a portion of the ticket price is tax deductible.
Kai Ryssdal, host and senior editor of American Public Media’s Marketplace, will be master of ceremonies for the event.
Cramer, a fixture as a CNBC commentator and host of “Mad Money,” founded the acclaimed business journalism outlet, TheStreet.com, in 1996. He is a former hedge fund manager and founder/owner and senior partner of Cramer Berkowitz. His compounded rate of return was 24 percent after all fees for 15 years at Cramer Berkowitz. He retired from his hedge fund in 2001.
He’s the author of six books, including his most recent, “Jim Cramer’s Getting Back to Even,” published in 2009. He’s a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard School of Law.
SABEW sets record for Best in Business entries
by Chris Roush
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ 18th annual Best in Business competition attracted a record 1,120 entries this year, Warren Watson, executive director, announced Wednesday.
The competition includes entries from three foreign countries, more small websites and other specialty publications, Watson said.
The contest, the largest of its kind, is now being judged. Winners will be announced soon, with the presentation of awards at SABEW’s 50th anniversary conference on April 5 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
The contest included entries from 195 companies, institutions and individuals, an increase of 90 over last year. Last year’s contest included 1,030 overall entries, at the time a record.
“As the business of business journalism changes, BIB must change too,” said Lisa Gibbs, of Money magazine, the contest’s coordinator. “In a way, the number of media organizations entering BIB reflects the innovation that’s taking place right now in business journalism.”
Gibbs added, “The BIB should reflect excellence in business journalism everywhere, no matter where and how it’s published.”
Some other highlights from the entry period:
- Bloomberg had the most entries – 60. Second-highest total was CNN Money with 38.
- Students from Arizona State University had the most entries in the college/university category – 22.
- Overseas entries came from Canada, Germany and Iraq.
The competition was created in 1995 to recognize the best work in business journalism. This year’s contest team included Chris Peacock of CNN Money and Joanna Ossinger of Bloomberg News.
Reynolds Center offering SABEW scholarships
by Chris Roush
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will award two $1,000 fellowships to attend the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in Washington April 4-6.
This year marks SABEW’s historic 50-year anniversary. The Reynolds Center fellowship is open to full-time journalists who want to attend the center’s free training before and during the conference, as well as other sessions.
The center will present the following training:
- Breaking Local Stories with Economic Data, a free, pre-conference workshop from 9 a.m. to noon April 4.
- Great Sources, Great Storytelling, from 11 a.m. to noon April 6, with BusinessJournalism.org blogger Rosland Gammon.
Last year’s winners were Emery Cowan of the Durango Herald in Colorado and Christopher Nelson, a freelance journalist based in Baltimore.
To apply for a fellowship, please email by 11:59 p.m. PT Feb. 18 the following to Reynolds Executive Director Linda Austin, with “SABEW Fellowship” in the subject line:
- Name, position, media outlet (if affiliated with one), email address, phone number.
- A resume.
- A 500-word statement on how attending the Reynolds Center training sessions and the rest of the SABEW Conference would benefit your professional development. Please include in this statement how many times you have attended SABEW previously, whether you would be able to attend this year without this support, and what your plan is for sharing what you would learn with colleagues.
Two economists to speak at SABEW conference
by Chris Roush
Two noted economists will speak at the 50th anniversary conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in Washington D.C. on April 4-6.
Peter Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office in 2007-2008, helped draw attention to the importance of health care reform and how current health care would negatively impact the long-term economic state of the US.
Since 2008, Orszag has worked as a columnist with Bloomberg View and the New York Times and participated as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is currently vice chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup.
David Stockman, former director of the Office of Management and Budget, will also speak during the spring conference at the Marvin Center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Stockman was director of the OMB from January 1981 until August 1985. During his tenure he was a strong proponent of supply-side economics, a macroeconomic philosophy now more commonly referred to as “trickle-down economics.”
After his term as director of the OMB, Stockman went on to a career on Wall Street with the investment bank Salomon Brothers and Blackstone Group, the private equity company.
To sign up for the conference, go here.
Fed vice chair to speak at SABEW conference
by Chris Roush
Janet Yellen, the vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board, will be the opening keynote speaker April 4 at the 50th anniversary conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Yellen, second in command at the nation’s central bank, will open the annual conference at the Marvin Center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
The educational event will go over three days – April 4-6, 2013 – and feature keynote speakers from government and business, panel discussions and skills sessions. It will culminate in a special gala program as SABEW commemorates 50 years as the largest and oldest fraternity of business and financial journalists in the world.
The Federal Reserve has been in the news for its aggressive use of quantitative easing and other measures to stimulate the flagging economy following the so-called Great Recession. Yellen began a four-year term as vice chair of the Fed board in October 2010; her term as a Fed governor runs through 2024.
“We’re thrilled to have such a big-name economic thinker open our conference, especially since a former Fed chairman addressed our first conference so many decades ago,” said Jill Jorden Spitz, president of SABEW.
Prior to joining the Fed, Yellen was president and CEO of the 12th District Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco. She also is former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.
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