SABEW board voting to open next week

Voting for the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Board of Governors opens Thursday, May 5 and closes at 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, May 12.

Voting members will receive the ballot information direct from the online voting service provider Opavote.org. If you are the voting member for your newsroom and also have an individual membership, you will receive two separate emails. If your newsroom voting representation has changed, please contact Tess McLaughlin.

Ballots will be cast for six open SABEW Board of Governors seats. All six are three-year terms ending spring 2025.

Running for a first-time board seat:
David Crow, U.S. News Editor, Financial Times
Nancy Farghalli, Executive Producer, Marketplace
Kristen Hallam, Deputy Managing Editor, S&P Global Market Intelligence

Incumbents seeking reelection:
Alan Deutschman, Professor and Reynolds Endowed Chair of Business Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno
James T. Madore, Economics Writer, Newsday
Scott Wenger, Chief Content Officer and Managing Director, VolpeMiller

Candidates’ statements of intent.

The winners of the election will be announced on Friday, May 13, during the closing ceremony at the SABEW conference in New York.

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.