SABEW elects new board members, Nelson as president

Jim Nelson

James Nelson, business editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, was installed as the new president of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing during its annual conference board meeting on April 20 at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University’s downtown Chicago campus.

Nelson succeeds Desiree Hanford, a Northwestern professor.

In addition to Nelson, SABEW’s 2024-2025 officer ladder is comprised off Vice President Pia Sarkar, business news editor at the Associated Press, and Secretary/Treasurer Oliver Staley, freelance editor and reporter.

SABEW members elected seven people to the board. The three incumbent board members are:

Matthew Goldberg, senior consumer banking reporter, Bankrate;
Janelle Nanos, business enterprise reporter, The Boston Globe; and
Staley, freelance editor and reporter.

SABEW membership also elected the following four people:

Mark DeCambre, editor-in-chief, MarketWatch;
Stuart Elliott, editor-in-chief and CEO, The Real Deal;
Chuck Jaffe, host of “Money Life with Chuck Jaffe,” freelance columnist, MarketWatch; and
Rita Trichur, senior business writer and columnist, The Globe and Mail.

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.