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SABEW assessing the freelance business journalism market

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is conducting an anonymous survey of freelance business journalists throughout the country to determine their pay and the type of work they perform.

The results of the survey will be made available to SABEW members by the end of the year on its site, and the data will include information on whether freelance business journalists have seen a change in their income in the past year and why.

If you are a freelance business journalist, please go to the link at the end of this message and click on it. Answering the questions will take less than a minute but will provide valuable data for freelancer business journalists across the country.

“Freelance business journalists are critical to the success of many business news organizations,” said Kevin Noblet, SABEW’s president and a managing editor at Dow Jones Newswires. “We hope this data will become useful for our freelance members so that they can see where they stand in the industry. It should also be useful to the companies that contract them.”

The survey results will be analyzed by SABEW’s research director, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill journalism professor Chris Roush, and will be broken out among geographic areas in the country, as well as by position, by length of time freelancing, and by experience.

An e-mail message was sent Thursday to SABEW members containing this information. If you did not receive the message, the survey can be found here.

Read more here.

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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