Categories: OLD Media Moves

Six voted to SABEW board

Six business journalists were elected to serve three-year terms on the Society of American Business Editors and Writers board of governors.

Three were incumbents: Kim Quillen, business editor of The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune; Walden Siew, a top news editor at Reuters; and freelancer Jonathan Blum.

The other three elected were: Marla Dickerson, deputy business editor of the Los Angeles Times; Gail MarksJarvis, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune; and Cory Schouten, a business reporter at the Indianapolis Business Journal.

The results were announced Saturday night at the closing event of the SABEW conference. Members from across the country voted electronically.

In addition, Jill Jorden Spitz, assistant managing editor for business at the Arizona Daily Star, took over as president of the organization. She previously had been SABEW vice president and replaces Kevin Noblet, a managing editor at Dow Jones Newswires. SABEW’s president serves a one-year term.

Stepping up to SABEW vice president is Beth Hunt, manager of editorial operations at American City Business Journals.

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.