Categories: OLD Media Moves

10 vying for six spots on SABEW board

Ten business journalists are running for six three-year spots on the Society of American Business Editors and Writers board.

Four of them are incumbents, while another is a former board member who was not on the board in the past year.

The incumbents are: Sharon Bernstein, visiting professor, Arizona State University, Phoenix; Jonathan Blum, freelance, Harrison, N.Y.; Kim Quillen, business editor, (New Orleans) Times-Picayune; and Walden Siew, top news editor, Reuters.

Longtime board member Gail MarksJarvis, a personal finance journalist for the Chicago Tribune, is also running. MarksJarvis did not seek re-election last year when her term was up.

Also running for spots on the board are: Marla Dickerson, deputy business editor, Los Angeles Times; Ilyce Glink, syndicated columnist, Glencoe, Ill.; Thomas Mucha, managing editor/correspondents, GlobalPost; Cory Schouten, reporter, Indianapolis Business Journal; and Mark Tatge, visiting professor, DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.

You may read the candidates biographies and statements of candidacy here.

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.