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Seven biz journalists elected to SABEW board

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.

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.