Categories: OLD Media Moves

Biz journalism organization moves to Poynter

The American Society of Business Publication Editors announced Thursday it will relocate its operations to The Poynter Institute, which will provide management services to the 51-year-old association.

As part of the agreement, Poynter will provide membership and customer service, event support, website assistance and management of ASBPE’s Azbee Awards of Excellence. Poynter and ASBPE will collaborate on the association’s annual conference programming, and ASBPE members will receive a discount on Poynter training.

ASBPE, which is now based in Wheaton, Ill., is a professional association for full-time and freelance editors, writers, art directors and designers in the business, trade and specialty press. The Poynter Institute is a non-profit, international school for journalists based in St. Petersburg, Fla.

“Our members mean everything to us,” said Jessica Zemler, ASBPE President and Digital Content Director for UBM Life Sciences, Veterinary. “This new partnership with Poynter represents a turning point not only for the ASBPE as a whole but for each one of our members.

ASBPE is the second association this year to turn to Poynter for management services, following the move to Poynter by the Association of Opinion Journalists.

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.