SABEW conducting business journalism salary survey

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is conducting a survey of business journalists throughout the country to determine the pay for business reporters and editors in various positions. The results of the survey will be made available to all SABEW members by the end of the year, and the data will be updated […]

SABEW gets $15,000 grant

The Commonwealth Fund has awarded a $15,000 grant to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers to conduct a series of education programs focusing on aspects of the nation’s new health-care reform law. The programs will be onsite and online, said Warren Watson, executive director of SABEW, the nation’s largest and oldest organization of […]

SABEW brings back fall conference

After a one-year hiatus, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers has revived its fall conference with a series of workshops and speakers Oct. 1 and Oct. 2 in New York City. The fall event at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism will be highlighted by the joint appearance of […]

SABEW to hold training call on health care law

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a teletraining conference call next week titled, “Now That It’s Passed: Covering the New Health Care Law.” The call will be held on Wednesday, April 7, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time. The call will include a discussion of how the tax credits […]

Washington Post biz news is read more now that it's in A section

Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, talked Sunday about the paper’s decision last year to cut its standalone business section and put business news into its A section. Downie, now a professor at Arizona State University, also discussed the strategy behind the Post’s decision to launch a weekly business newspaper next […]

Kandel on business journalism

Myron Kandel, the founding business editor at CNN, talks Sunday about the current state of business journalism and what he sees happening in the future. Kandel, a two-time president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, was also the financial editor of the New York Post, financial editor of the New York Herald […]

SABEW members fell 6 percent in 2009

Membership in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers dropped by 6 percent, or about 200 business journalists, in 2009, according to a report given to its members Saturday. The organization now has approximately 3,000 members. However, some large business news organizations increased their SABEW membership. Journalists in the group from Thomson Reuters rose […]

SABEW elects new board members

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers re-elected six new board members and elected three new board members at its annual conference in Phoenix. Those re-elected to the board for three-year terms were: Lisa Gibbs of Money magazine, Kevin Hall of McClatchy Newspapers, Diana Henriques of the New York Times, Chris Peacock of CNNMoney.com, […]

Business journalism ethics discussion at SABEW conference

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers held its annual Gary Klott memorial panel on ethics Saturday at its annual conference. Here were some of the questions that business journalists responded to: 1. As a longtime reporter covering the business of health care, you’ve developed a number of stories based on drug price fixing. […]

SABEW remembers former board member Dave Morrow

Glenn Hall, the editor in chief at TheStreet.com, talks below about Dave Morrow, the former editor in chief of TheStreet.com, and his influence on business journalism. Morrow died last month from pancreatic cancer. He was 49. Morrow had joined the faculty of the University of Nevada-Reno in 2009 to teach business journalism. Morrow was remembered […]