CUNY grad students covering SABEW conference

Students from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism are at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers annual conference in Phoenix and reporting about the sessions at www.cunyatsabew.com.

Graduate student Chris Prentice writes, “Journalism and business are both in the midst of seminal — and most would say painful –revolutions. No one understands that better than the conference attendees.

“‘We all have smaller staffs than we used to and yet the economic crisis is even more important,’ said Megan Schnabel, editor at the Blue Ridge Business Journal.  Everyone needs to do more with less, she said.

“But the conference line-up will not focus on the dire state of the industry, according to Scarp and Warren Watson, Executive Director of SABEW.  Instead, everything oriented around skills and the news itself.

“”People rely now on business journalists,’ Scarp said, in the aftermath of the crisis.  ‘Business journalists need to have as many resources as they possibly can.  Now more than ever.'”

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