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SABEW to hold call on covering foreclosures and housing crisis

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a telephone training call next week for journalists looking for tips and ideas on how to cover the housing crisis and foreclosures with more authority.

The call for “Fresh Ideas for Covering the Housing and Foreclosure Crisis” will be held from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST on Jan. 23.

Panelists are Daren Blomquist, director of marketing communications at RealtyTrac Inc. and Kerry Curry, executive editor of HousingWire. The moderator will be Matthew Strozier, online real estate editor at The Wall Street Journal.

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 training call is presented free by SABEW as a member service. Questions? Contact SABEW board member Dawn Wotapka at (212) 416-2193 or send email to dawn.wotapka@dowjones.com.

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.