SABEW hires Klimstra as executive director

Stephanie Klimstra

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing has hired Stephanie Klimstra as its new executive director.

She will start Sept. 11.

Klimstra worked most recently for the Investigative Reporters & Editors organization (IRE) for 16 years, where she was director of events for nine years. Klimstra has 26 years of nonprofit, private sector and corporate experience.

“SABEW is excited that Stephanie is joining the organization, and we all look forward to working with her,” said Desiree Hanford, SABEW president and professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, in a statement. “Her deep experience in nonprofits and working with a diversity of stakeholders will help SABEW members and staff think strategically, realize their vision and generate support for that vision.”

At IRE, she oversaw all logistical aspects of the organization’s in-person and virtual conferences, which ranged in size from 100 to 2,000 people.

Klimstra succeeds Kathleen Graham, who was SABEW’s executive director for nine years and is now the executive director for the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society.

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.