SABEW announces shortlist for Best in Business Book Award

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced the shortlist for its Best in Business Book Awards, which recognizes and celebrates outstanding business books published between July 31, 2020, and July 31, 2021. Submissions came from publishers such as Penguin Random House-Crown, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, PublicAffairs and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The overall […]

SABEW hires Ernst as program and content director

Tobin Ernst has been hired by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing as its program and content director. He will focus on SABEW’s training programs, events, partnerships and communications for business journalists. Ernst has been working alongside journalists for more than 20 years in various PR roles. He has successfully developed and executed internal […]

Barnhart, longtime Chicago Trib biz journalist, has died

The Society for Advancing Business Reporting and Editing reports that past president William “Bill” Barnhart passed away over the July 4 weekend. Barnhart was with the Chicago Tribune for 26 years. He began his career in journalism in 1970 as a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago wire service. Later, Barnhart covered […]

Silver to become SABEW president

Caleb Silver, editor-in-chief and senior vice president at Investopedia, will be installed as the new president of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing on Thursday at noon during the annual membership meeting. He succeeds Kim Quillen, business source editor at Chicago Tribune, who served as SABEW’s president for the past year. Silver has […]

SABEW is accepting Best in Business Book Award entries

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced the second annual Best in Business Book Awards recognizing and celebrating outstanding business books is now open for submissions. SABEW is well-known for its prestigious Best in Business annual awards but this award focuses on business books as a standalone category. The awards will recognize ground-breaking […]

SABEW announces new board members

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced Thursday that Romaine Bostick, a Bloomberg Television news anchor, and Pia Sarkar, business news editor at The Associated Press, have been elected to the board of governors. SABEW membership also re-elected Rich Barbieri, deputy business editor of The New York Times; Matthew Goldberg, consumer banking reporter at Bankrate; Andrew Leckey, international speaker and […]

SABEW board voting starts Monday

Voting for the SABEW Board of Governors opens Monday, June 7 and closes at 5 p.m. EDT on Friday, June 11. Voting members will receive the ballot information direct from the online voting service provider Opavote.org on Monday. If you are the voting member for your newsroom and also have an individual membership, you will receive two separate […]

Bloomberg reporter Hagan receives Best Young Journalist Award

SABEW Canada has presented its Jeff Sanford Best Young Journalist Award to Shelly Hagan of Bloomberg News. Hagan graduated from the University of Missouri in 2017 and joined Bloomberg as a Canadian economy reporter in September 2019, a little more than six months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Since then, she has been responsible for […]

SABEW Canada outstanding achievement award to Babad

SABEW Canada has given its Outstanding Achievement Award to longtime business journalism Michael Babad, who died last year. Babad spent two decades as a senior business editor at The Globe and Mail, where he was universally beloved—a near-miraculous accomplishment in the journalism game. His writing displayed that rare combination of deep business knowledge and sly humor, […]

SABEW Canada names Best in Business finalists

SABEW Canada named Wednesday the finalists for its Best in Business competition. They are: Audio or Visual Storytelling Kyle Bakx (CBC News), “Portrait of retail survival: Inside a strip mall during COVID-19” Gabriel Friedman (Financial Post), “Down to Business: ‘No science’ behind lobster dispute” Rob Carrick, Roma Luciw, Kiran Rana, Hannah Sung, Amanda Cupido and […]