Seven business journalists have been elected to the board of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, which also installed a new president on Saturday evening.
The board members elected are:
1.Diana Henriques, a contributing writer to The New York Times;
2. Andrew Leckey, president of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism;
3. Gary Silverman, U.S. deputy managing editor of the Financial Times;
4. Kevin Shinkle, deputy business editor of the Associated Press;
5. Pamela Yip, personal finance columnist for the Dallas Morning News;
6. Chris Peacock, vice president of CNNMoney.com;
7. James Madore, senior business writer for Newsday.
Henriques, Silverman, Yip and Peacock were incumbents. Lisa Gibbs of Money magazine chose not to run for re-election. Walden Siew of Reuters resigned from the board earlier this year.
Kevin Hall, the national economics correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, took over as president of the organization, which is based at Arizona State University. He replaces Jill Jorden Spitz of the Arizona Daily Star.