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SABEW to hold 2015 conference in Chicago

For the first time since 1992, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers will conduct its annual spring conference in Chicago.

The dates: April 23-25, 2015, at the Hyatt Magnificent Mile Hotel. The spring conference is SABEW’s largest and most important event of the year.

“It’s been more than 20 years and we’re delighted to be back in one of America’s most exciting cities, an important journalism and financial hub,” said Warren Watson, executive director.

Although SABEW has held education events in Chicago throughout its 51 years, this will be only the third time the spring event will be held in the city.

Its first Chicago conference was in May 1976. The organization also did a conference in late April 1992.

But Chicago has made a special place in SABEW history. Numerous regional events covering personal finance, technology and reporting and writing have been held in the city. The most recent was a special symposium on the business of health care in November 2013.

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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.