Eight running for SABEW board

Members will be casting online ballots for candidates running for the board of governors for the Society of American Business Editors and Writers starting today at 1:30 p.m. EST until 4 p.m. Saturday, April 25.

Eight candidates will vie for board slots, six three-year terms ending in the spring of 2018, one two-year term ending in the spring of 2017 and one one-year term ending in the spring of 2016.

Results of the election will be announced at the Best in Business reception on April 25 at the spring conference in Chicago.

Voting members will receive voting instructions via email.

Under the SABEW bylaws, all individual members can vote, as well as a single representative of each of the Society’s approximately 190 institutional members.

Here is the list of candidates. Click on the name of a candidate to be linked to his or her statement of candidacy and qualifications.

Robert Barba, deputy editor, American Banker

Suzanne Barlyn, correspondent, Reuters

Jonathan Blum, freelance (incumbent)

Bryan Borzykowski, freelance (incumbent)

Sho Chandra, reporter, Bloomberg News

Brad Foss, deputy business editor, Associated Press (incumbent)

Andrew Leckey, president, Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism (incumbent)

Kim Quillen, assistant business editor, The Arizona Republic (incumbent)

No write-in candidates are allowed.

The online voting services are provided by Opavote.org.