Biz publications to hold annual conference next month

The Alliance of Area Business Publishers will hold its 2018 summer conference next month in Washington, D.C.

The event will be held June 21-23 at The Westin Washington. To register, go here.

The conference has separate schedules for publishers, ad directors and journalists.

The keynote speakers include Atlantic Media CEO Michael Finnegan, who will talk about the strategies and technology behind the recent transformation of the magazine, and Shailesh Prakesh, chief information officer of the Washington Post, who will talk about how it is using technology and innovation to reinvent itself.

The Alliance represents 70 regional and local business publications in the United States, Canada, Australia and Puerto Rico.

The combined circulation of its member publications is over 1.2 million business professionals.

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.