Seven elected to SABEW board

Seven business journalists have been elected to the board of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

At SABEW’s spring conference in Seattle this past weekend, the board voted for seven additional seats on the board of governors, six with a term ending in 2020 and one ending in 2018.

Originally, there were just six seats available.

Candidates elected to the board were:

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

Barbieri holds the board seat ending 2018. The others will hold terms ending 2020.

Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst and Washington bureau chief at Bankrate.com, was inducted as president of SABEW at the conference.

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.