Six seek SABEW board slots

Society of American Business Editors and Writers members meeting at the annual spring conference from March 27 to March 29 will elect six members for the organization’s 22-person board of governors

The election will be contested by three incumbents and three newcomers.   Three incumbents have chosen not to run for three-year terms.

Candidates include Glenn Hall, MarketWatch (incumbent); Mark Hamrick, Bankrate.com; Mary Jane Pardue, Missouri State University (incumbent); Jim Pensiero, The Wall Street Journal; Karey Van Hall, Reuters; and Allen Wastler, CNBC.com (incumbent)

Incumbents Beth Hunt of American City Business Journals, Mark Tatge of DePauw University and Dawn Wotapka of The Wall Street Journal will not run.

The election will be conducted at the spring conference at the Cronkite School at Arizona State University Downtown.  All individual members present will be eligible to vote, along with a single representative from each SABEW’s 221 institutional members.  SABEW conducted online elections for the board in 2011-13.

Kevin G. Hall, SABEW president, said that electronic voting did result in slightly more voter participation.  “But it was more costly,” he said.  “The change is part of our effort to hold down costs wherever we can.”