SABEW seeks health care symposium applicants

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing is seeking applicants for its 2024 Health Care Symposium in Washington, D.C.

The fellowship will give journalists a chance to take a deep dive with experts and veteran reporters into some of the big issues facing U.S. health care, from the growing impact of private equity ownership, to the ways in which blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs are widening health disparities, the crisis of rural health care, and the battles ahead on women’s reproductive health.

Thanks to a grant from The Commonwealth Fund, SABEW will cover the hotel costs and provide a travel stipend for out-of-town attendees. The program kicks off on Sunday evening, Oct. 20, with a welcome dinner. On Monday, Oct. 21, there will be a full day of sessions at the National Press Building Conference Center, located in D.C.

The symposium will conclude on Tuesday, Oct. 22, before noon.

If you are interested in being a Health Care fellow, apply by 5 p.m. ET, Thursday, Sept. 19.

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.