The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing selected 25 business journalists for the 2025 Goldschmidt Fellowship data immersion workshop taking place March 23-27 in Washington, D.C.
During the five-day program, the Fellows will interact with representatives from governmental and non-governmental agencies that produce the data that business journalists use every day. These sessions expand the journalists’ knowledge of economic data while helping government agencies better tailor that data to inform the public.
Goldschmidt Fellows, who were chosen from a pool of 33 applicants, include:
- Noor Adatia, Dallas Business Journal, commercial real estate/economic development reporter, Dallas
- Nazmul Ahasan, Bloomberg News, reporter, Washington
- Laura Bratton, Yahoo Finance, breaking business news reporter, New York
- Nicole Campbell, The Wall Street Journal, senior publishing editor, Washington
- Sissi Cao, Observer, business editor, New York
- Evan Coleman, Forbes Advisor, updates Editor/data & automation, Brookline, MA
- Pete Danko, Portland Business Journal, staff reporter, Portland, OR
- Xiumei Dong, Law360, senior reporter, Washington
- Logan Dragone, Orlando Business Journal, data reporter, Orlando
- Adam Farence, The Real Deal, data editor, New York
- Alexis Garcia, Investor’s Business Daily, senior editor multimedia, Los Angeles
- Adam Hardy, Money Magazine aka Money.com, lead data reporter, Saint Petersburg, FL
- Caleb Harshberger, Bloomberg Industry Group, reporter, Washington
- Corbin Hiar, Politico’s E&E News, corporate climate reporter, Washington
- Max Klaver, Miami Herald, economic mobility reporter, Miami
- Catherine Leffert, American Banker, reporter, Washington
- Ilena Peng, Bloomberg News, agriculture reporter, New York
- Allison Prang, freelance journalist, Washington
- Matt Sedensky, The Associated Press, national writer, New York
- Alina Selyukh, NPR, correspondent, Washington
- Angélica Serrano-Román, Bloomberg Law, bankruptcy reporter, Washington
- Victor Stefanescu, The Minnesota Star Tribune, medical technology reporter, Minneapolis, MN
- Ricardo Torres, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, reporter, Milwaukee, WI
- Zhen Wang, The Post-Crescent, paper and business reporter, Appleton, WI
- Hannah Ziegler, The Washington Post, business reporter, Washington
The in-person workshop will focus on understanding how the government creates and uses data and will show how to locate hidden data. Experts and government professionals will surround fellows during this all-access program. Additionally, they will speak directly with those who compile and manage the statistics as they explore the large cache of data each agency produces and understand the data’s importance to their communities.
