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Annual SABEW conference is in DC next month

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the world’s largest organization dedicated to business and financial journalism, will be holding its 53rd Annual Spring Conference next month.

Highlights of the convention, to be held May 19 to May 21 in the Washington, DC, area, include a keynote going behind the scenes of the Panama Papers leak, newsmakers including Washington Post Editor Marty Baron, Marriott’s CEO and the Secretary of Labor; and new ideas from a digital-focused training program that includes sessions on exploiting mobile, entrepreneurialism in media, finding voice in e-newsletters and leading a digital newsroom.

View the full schedule here.

Registration is now available with a special early bird rate of $299 for members and $349 for nonmembers through this Friday, April 15. Also available on the registration page are special one-day and student rates.

SABEW has a special rate of $159 a night at the conference hotel, the DoubleTree by Hilton in Crystal City, Virginia. Make your reservation before April 27.

For additional information about the conference, contact Crystal Beasley at (602) 496-7862 or cbeasley@sabew.org.

For more information on becoming an exhibitor or sponsor, contact Renee McGivern at (651) 210-0911 or rmcgivern@sabew.org.

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.