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Seven biz journalists seeking six SABEW board seats

Society of American Business Editors and Writers members will be casting ballots this year for candidates running for six seats on the Board of Governors. Each term lasts for three years, ending in the spring of 2020.

There are seven candidates running for the six available seats. All are members in good standing.

The incumbent board members running for the board are:

Robert Barba, technology editor, American Banker
Shobhana Chandra, economics reporter, Bloomberg News
Glenn Hall, U.S. news editor, The Wall Street Journal
Dean Murphy, associate editor, The New York Times

The following three candidates are also running for a seat on the board:

Rich Barbieri, executive editor, CNNMoney
Marilyn Geewax, senior business news editor, National Public Radio
James B. Nelson, deputy business editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

For more information on all the candidates, click here.

Results of the election will be announced at the Best in Business award ceremony on April 29 at the spring conference in Seattle.

Voting members will receive voting instructions via email.

Under the SABEW bylaws, all individual members can vote, as well as a single representative of each of the Society’s approximately 190 institutional members.

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.

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biznewsreader says:
April 20, 2017 at 4:18 pm
If you're going to have losers, have multiple ones! Six seats and seven candidates is just unreasonable. Next time, try nine candidates so that one person doesn't feel like running was humiliating.