SABEW selects Xana Fellows

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing selected ten business journalists as Xana Fellows for its annual conference taking place April 20-22 at Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The SABEW23 Xana Fellows comprise:

Natalie Campisi, reporter, Forbes Advisor
Kelly Dereuck, reporter, Missouri Business Alert
Isabella Farr, senior reporter, The Real Deal
Krystal Hu, tech reporter, Reuters
Paxtyn Merten, senior data reporter, Stacker
Meera Raman, staff reporter, Boston Business Journal
Lauren Rosenblatt, business reporter, The Seattle Times
Rosa Saba, business reporter/editor, Canadian Press
Erin Slowey, corporate tax reporter, Bloomberg Tax
Taylor Tompkins, economics editor, Investopedia

The fellows will participate in invitation-only specialized news leadership development sessions throughout the year. The program includes topics like managing up, resolving newsroom conflict, managing change and achieving career goals.

SABEW launched the Xana Fund mid-career leadership program in 2020 in honor of SABEW board member and Quartz Executive Editor Xana Antunes. She was dedicated to ensuring that individual journalists had space to develop their skills despite facing relentless change across the industry. Antunes, who died in January 2020 from cancer, was also focused on the gender gap in business news and the need for more structured opportunities for female business journalists to advance their careers.

This project is supported by a sponsorship from Google and through donations from individuals and Xana’s family. Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to the Xana Fund online. Include “The Xana Fund” in the drop-down menu.

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.