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MarksJarvis to receive SABEW Distinguished Achievement Award

Gail MarksJarvis

, one of the nation’s most respected personal finance columnists, will receive the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing’s highest honor – its Distinguished Achievement Award – for 2023.

The award is given to an individual who has made a significant impact on the field of business journalism and has been a nurturing influence on others in the profession.

“I am truly honored to receive this prestigious award and join the previous distinguished winners whom I have admired,” said MarksJarvis. “To join this remarkable list of business journalists, who have had a profound impact through their reporting, is humbling. SABEW plays a crucial role in emphasizing the highest standards in business journalism. And it provides mentorship and insight to journalists so they can help readers, viewers and listeners make sense of business and the economy and navigate the complex money decisions of their lives.”

MarksJarvis will be formally honored during SABEW’s annual conference, #SABEW23, taking place April 20-22 at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida.

“Gail MarksJarvis is the quintessential business journalist who has devoted her career to helping others understand finance and make better decisions with their money,” said SABEW President Glenn Hall, and editor of professional news at The Wall Street Journal. “She holds herself to the highest journalistic standards and truly embodies the spirit of SABEW, which she has supported as a board member, committee chairperson and in many other ways big and small. Gail inspired so many of us at SABEW over the years and I am delighted that we can recognize all her achievements with this award.”

MarksJarvis is an award-winning financial columnist for the Chicago Tribune, a TV commentator and a best-selling, award-winning author. Her columns and analysis of the economy, markets and personal finance strategies have reached millions of readers across the nation. Besides writing about it, MarksJarvis has advised on personal finance, investing, business and financial markets in speeches and on television and radio.

MarksJarvis has been a reporter for National Public Radio’s “Marketplace,” and a frequent commentator for WGN and CLTV in Chicago. She has appeared on PBS’s Nightly Business Report, PBS NewsHour, NPR, CNBC, Fox Business, Talk of the Nation, CBS This Morning and Morningstar.com.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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