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SABEW receives grant for investigative reporting training

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers has been awarded a $25,000 grant to provide training in investigative business reporting.

The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, based in Oklahoma City, announced the award as part of $1.5 million in grants to 19 journalism organizations nationwide.

The grant will help SABEW conduct a series of four regional workshops – in the East, Midwest, South and West – focusing on skills for business and financial journalists.

Founded by Edith Kinney Gaylord, Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation’s mission is to invest in the future of journalism by building the ethics, skills and opportunities needed to advance principled, probing news and information.

“EEJF focused a large majority of available funds towards non-profit investigative news organizations this grant cycle,” said Bob Ross, president and CEO of Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. “These organizations are primarily start-ups with exciting new business models, each filling a void left by traditional news organizations.”

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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.