OLD Media Moves

SABEW announces new board members

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced Thursday that Romaine Bostick, a Bloomberg Television news anchor, and Pia Sarkar, business news editor at The Associated Press, have been elected to the board of governors.

SABEW membership also re-elected Rich Barbieri, deputy business editor of The New York Times; Matthew Goldberg, consumer banking reporter at Bankrate; Andrew Leckey, international speaker and trainer; Cindy Perman, partnerships and syndication editor at CNBC.com; and Oliver Staley, culture and lifestyle editor at Quartz.

Here are details on the seven board members who will be installed on Thursday, June 24 from noon – 12:30 p.m. ET during the SABEW virtual membership meeting. To join the meeting, use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81025027226.

  • Rich Barbieri, deputy business editor, The New York Times (2021-2024 term)
  • Romaine Bostick, news anchor, Bloomberg Television (2021-2024 term)
  • Matthew Goldberg, consumer banking reporter, Bankrate (2021-2024 term)
  • Andrew Leckey, international speaker and trainer; founder and past president, Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism (2021-2023 term)
  • Cindy Perman, partnerships and syndication editor, CNBC.com (2021-2024 term)
  • Pia Sarkar, business news editor, Associated Press (2021-2024 term)
  • Oliver Staley, business and culture editor, Quartz (2021-2024 term)

They join SABEW’s existing board members:

  • Caleb Silver, SABEW president, editor-in-chief, Investopedia
  • Heather Long, SABEW vice president, economics correspondent, The Washington Post
  • Glenn Hall, SABEW secretary/treasurer, chief editor, The Wall Street Journal
  • Cesca Antonelli, editor-in-chief, Bloomberg Industry Group
  • Robert Barba, spot news editor, Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal
  • Megan Davies, editor and reporter, Reuters
  • Alan Deutschman, professor and Reynolds endowed chair of business journalism University of Nevada, Reno
  • Pallavi Gogoi, chief business editor, NPR
  • Desiree Hanford, lecturer, Medill/Northwestern University
  • James Madore, economics writer, Newsday
  • Dean Murphy, associate managing editor of investigations, The New York Times
  • James B. Nelson, business editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and instructor, Marquette University
  • Jenny Paurys, head of news and insight operations, S&P Global Market Intelligence
  • Scott Wenger, editorial director, Barron’s
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.

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