The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing selected 25 business journalists for the 2024 Goldschmidt Fellowship data immersion workshop taking place March 3-7 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:
- Oluwakemi Aladesuyi, freelance, New York
- Seth Bodine, business reporter, Fort Worth Report, Fort Worth, Texas
- Michael Bologna, senior reporter, Bloomberg Industry, Chicago
- Varvara Budetti, deputy editor data, Forbes Marketplace, Allenton, PA
- Christine Burton, deputy data editor, Forbes Advisor, Boynton Beach, FL
- Jarrell Dillard, economic reporter, Bloomberg News, Washington
- Samantha Fields, data reporter, Marketplace, New York
- Alex Gailey, senior data reporter, Bankrate, New York
- Andy Giegerich, managing editor, Portland Business Journal, Portland, OR
- Carolyn Guniss, editor in chief, Orlando Business Journal, Orlando, FL
- Stephanie Hughes, senior reporter, Marketplace, Baltimore
- Hannah Erin Lang, personal finance reporter, Marketwatch, New York
- Ariella Martinez, data reporter, Newsday, New York
- Whitney McDonald, editor, Bank Automation News, Detroit
- Bethan Moorcraft, reporter, Moneywise, Toronto, CAN
- Ana Lucia Murillo, reporter, Washington Business Journal, Washington
- Madeline Ngo, economic correspondent, The New York Times, Washington
- Mitchell Parton, staff reporter, Dallas Business Journal, Dallas
- Hailey Ross, insurance reporter, S&P Global Market Intelligence, Washington
- Courtney Rozen, White House reporter, Bloomberg Government, Washington
- Antoinette Smith, senior editor, S&P Global Commodity Insights, Houston
- Ana Teresa Solá, reporter, CNBC, New York
- Michael Taffe, data reporter, Financial Times, New York
- Tisha Thompson, investigative reporter, ESPN, Washington
- Clayton Vickers, The Hill, grad student, University of Missouri, 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.
Chris RoushChris 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.