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Seven seeking election to SABEW board

Seven people affiliated with business journalism are seeking six spots on the board of directors for the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

The winners will be announced at the SABEW annual conference in Washington, which is April 4 to April 6.

Those seeking board seats are:

Gary Silverman, U.S. deputy managing editor and U.S. news editor of the Financial Times (incumbent);
Diana Henriques, contributing writer for The New York Times (incumbent);
James Madore, senior business writer at Newsday;
Kevin Shinkle, deputy business editor of The Associated Press;
Pamela Yip, personal finance and senior/aging reporter, The Dallas Morning News (incumbent);
Andrew Leckey, president, Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism;
Chris Peacock, vice president, CNNMoney.com (incumbent).

Those elected will serve three-year terms. You may read the candidates biographies and statements of candidacy here.

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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