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SABEW to hold teletraining on covering sequestration

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a telephone conference call next week for business journalists interested in covering angles of the sequestration.

The call will be held on Monday, March 18 at 2 p.m. EST. The moderator will be Bernie Kohn, a former SABEW president who now is an editor at Bloomberg News in Washington.

To sign up for the call, click here. On the day of the call, dial (218) 339-2626 and, when prompted, enter the access code 4058935 and you’ll be put in to the call. Callers may only listen in to the panelists’ discussion, but may submit questions to sabew@sabew.org that will be sent to the moderator for possible inclusion in the hour-long discussion.

Also on the call will be James Politi, U.S. economics and trade correspondent, the Financial Times; David Lightman, McClatchy Washington Bureau, chief congressional correspondent and national political reporter; and Rob Terry, managing editor of the Washington Business Journal.

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.