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SABEW to hold training call on writing and reporting investigative stories

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will hold a training call on Monday, July 25, for business journalists interested in learning tips about investigative stories.

The call will be held from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST.

The moderator for the call will be Chicago Tribune reporter Jason Grotto. The panelists for the call will include Investigative Reporters and Editors executive director Mark Horvit, investigative reporter Robert Cribb of the Toronto Star, and Scott Eden, a freelance journalist who was recently on the staff of TheStreet.com

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.

Contact SABEW board member and training committee co-chair Mary Jane Pardue of Missouri State University, mjpardue@missouristate.edu or (417) 889-9438, if you have questions.

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.