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SABEW to hold teletraining session on covering holiday retail season

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a teletraining session called “Fresh Ideas for Covering the Holiday Retail Season in a Down Economy” next week.

The hour-long conference call is — note new time — 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time, Monday, Nov. 14.

The panel includes moderator  Karen Talley, special writer covering retailers, Dow Jones Newswires ; and panelists  Maria Halkias, retail writer, The Dallas Morning News; and Andria Cheng, retail reporter, MarketWatch  .

Please RSVP for the event by registering here.

Then, on the day of the event, please call 218-339-2626 and, when prompted, enter the access code 4058935. You’ll be able to hear the panelists but not speak to them. During the call, listeners may send questions via e-mail to sabew@sabew.org. Selected questions will be forwarded to the moderator for the panel to answer.

The call is presented as a free service by SABEW, the largest organization of business journalists in the world.

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.