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The SABEW Annual Conference 2009 will be held on Apr. 26-28, 2009, at the Westin Tabor Center, Denver.

Schedule Updates

This schedule is updated as additional information is confirmed.

Saturday, April 25

9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Pre-conference workshop: “Shooting Outstanding Video Business Stories.”

Sponsored by Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. (All participants in the Reynolds workshop must be registered for the entire SABEW conference. Separate registration required.)

Noon – 5 p.m.

Board Meeting

6 p.m. -

SABEW seating at Colorado Rockies vs. Los Angeles Dodgers game

Sunday, April 26

10 a.m.

Conference registration, exhibit hall open

Noon to 12:30 p.m.

Opening of Conference

• Welcome and introduction of board candidates, SABEW President Bernie Kohn, Investigations Editor, Baltimore Sun
• Welcome: Denver Metro Convention Bureau (sponsors of lunch)
• Welcome: Ted Beck, President and CEO, National Endowment for Financial Education, the sponsor of today’s town hall meeting

12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m.

Town Hall Meeting: “Coverage of the Meltdown “¦ Did 9,000 Business Journalists Blow It?”

Moderator: Paul Steiger, (right) former Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal and CEO/Editor-in-Chief ProPublica

Panelists:

• Allan Dodds Frank, Television Journalist and President, Overseas Press Club
• Larry Ingrassia, Business Editor, New York Times
• Greg Miller, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business
• Jane Bryant Quinn, Personal Finance Columnist for Bloomberg News and Newsweek
• Dean Starkman, Editor/Writer for the Columbia Journalism Review’s Audit site

2 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

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2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

1. Turbulent Personal Finance: A Conversation With Jane Bryant Quinn

Introduction: Ted Beck, President and CEO, National Endowment for Financial Education

2. Good Writing Still Shines Online

Instructor: Jacqui Banaszynski, Knight Chair in Editing at the University of Missouri School of Journalism

3. Using Twitter and Other Social Networking Sites in Reporting

Instructor: Sandeep Junnarkar, Digital Media Professor at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism

3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

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3:45 p.m. – 5 p.m.

1. Health Care: Will Obama Get It Right?

Sponsor: Commonwealth Fund

Moderator: Gail DeGeorge, Sunday/Enterprise Editor, South Florida Sun-Sentinel and past SABEW President

Panelists:

• Dr. Jeffrey L. Kang, Chief Medical Officer for CIGNA Corp.
• Richard D. Lamm, Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies, University of Denver, and former three-term Governor of Colorado
• Rachel Nuzum, Senior Policy Director for the Commonwealth Fund

2. Chronicling the Fall: They Wrote the Book

Moderator: John Corrigan, Los Angeles Times Business Editor

Panelists:

• William Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street about the fall of Bear Stearns
• Diana Henriques, New York Times financial investigative reporter who is writing a book about the Bernie Madoff scandal
• Dave Kansas, former Wall Street Journal Money and Investing Section Editor and author of The Wall Street Guide to the End of Wall Street As We Know It

5 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

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5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

The Global Financial Crisis: A View From Abroad

Moderator: Greg McCune, SABEW President-Elect and Reuters Training Editor

Panelists:

• Alejandro Lifschitz, Reuters Spanish Language Editor in Latin America based in Santiago, Chile
• Mika Rahkonen, Managing Editor Business News, Finnish Broadcasting Co.
• Wang Shuo, Managing Editor of China’s Caijing Business Magazine

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Opening Reception

Sponsor: Reuters

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Monday, April 27

8 a.m.

Conference Registration and Exhibit hall opens

8 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.

Immigrants: A Mobile Workforce With Roots for Growth

Introduction: Rob Reuteman, former Business Editor, Rocky Mountain News

Presenter: Christina Gold, CEO at Western Union

8:45 a.m. – 9 a.m.

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9 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

After Tech Stocks and Housing, What’s the Next Bubble?

Introduction: Steve McMillan, Business Editor, Denver Post

Moderator: Al Lewis, Columnist, Dow Jones Newswires

Panelists:

• Dean Baker, Co-director, Center for Economic Policy and Research
• Kevin Blakely, President and CEO, Risk Management Association
• Allan Sloan, Senior Editor-at-Large, Fortune Magazine
• Lynn Turner, former Chief Accountant, Securities and Exchange Commission

10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

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10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

1. Bleeding Red Ink: How Newspapers Plan to Stop the Flow

Moderator: Bernie Kohn, SABEW President and Investigations Editor, Baltimore Sun

Panelists:

• David Hunke, Chief Executive Officer of the Detroit Media Partnership and Publisher of the Detroit Free Press
• Penny Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics, University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication

2. Scrutinizing Your Local Pension Funds

Instructor: Lynn Turner, former Chief Accountant, Securities and Exchange Commission

11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.

What Can We Expect From the SEC?

Lunch With Keynote Speaker

Sponsors: Dow Jones Newswires, Wall Street Journal and Fox Business News

Introduction: Diana Henriques, Senior Financial Writer, New York Times

Speaker: Mary Schapiro, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission

1 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

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1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

1. The Green Panacea: Critically Covering Renewable Energy

Moderator: Ben Santarris, public affairs manager for SolarWorld Industries America and Former Business Editor of The Oregonian

Panelists:

• Dave Christensen, Renewable Energy Conservation Manager, National Renewable Energy Lab
• Jeffrey Coombe, Manager of Technical Studies, BBI International
• Andy Paliszewski, Director of Wind Turbine R&D, Siemens Energy

2. Creating Podcasts

Instructor: Tom Merritt, Managing Editor of CNET

3. Journalists Turned Entrepreneurs: Build a Business as Well as a Portfolio

Moderator: Henry Dubroff, Founder of the Pacific Coast Business Times in Santa Barbara
Panelists:

• Jonathan Blum, Founder of Blumsday.com, a B2B content engine
• Michelle Leder, Founder, footnoted.org
• Tammi Marcoullier, editorial director of Publish2 Inc., a link journalism start-up
• Susan J. Marks, freelance writer, editor and author

2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

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2:45 p.m. – 4 p.m.

1. Financial Video: Where Is It Headed?

Moderator: Marty Wolk, Executive Business Editor of MSNBC.com

Panelists:

• Ray Hennessey, Director of Business News, Fox Business News
• Chris Peacock, Vice President and Executive Editor, CNN Money.com
• Mike Stepanovich, Managing Editor, Reuters Insider financial video service

2. Intro to ‘Flash,’ the Online Illustration Software

Instructor: Thomas McKay, graphics artist, Denver Post

3. Covering a Bank Failure in Your Community

Moderator: David Milstead, former Finance Editor Rocky Mountain News and writer for In Denver Times

Panelists:

• Mark Davis, Kansas City Star Banking Reporter
• Pat Ferrier, Business/Growth Editor, Fort Collins Coloradoan
• Jonathan Weil, Bloomberg News columnist

4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

SABEW Annual Business Meeting

5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Reception

Sponsor: Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism

7 p.m.

Annual Banquet (Best in Business Awards)

Sponsor: Bloomberg News

Distinguished Achievement Award Ceremony

Introduction: Beth Hunt, Manager of Editorial Operations, American City Business Journals

Recipient: Ray Shaw, Chairman, American City Business Journals

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TUESDAY, April 28

8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

Gary Klott Memorial Ethics Discussion: Ethics During Challenging Times

Moderator: Gail DeGeorge, Sunday/Enterprise Editor, South Florida Sun-Sentinel and past SABEW President

Panelists:

• Mike Fancher, former Seattle Times executive editor and Academic Fellow at the University of Missouri School of Journalism
• David Milstead, former Finance Editor Rocky Mountain News and writer for In Denver Times
• Joanna Ossinger, Senior Editor, FOX Business Network
• Liz Pulliam Weston, Personal Finance Columnist, MSN Money

9:45 a.m. – 10 a.m.

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10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

1. How the Best in Business Winners Did It

Moderator: Hal Ritter, Business Editor, Associated Press

Panelists:

• Susanne Craig, Reporter, Wall Street Journal
• Jason Gertzen, Reporter, Kansas City Star
• Geoffrey James, Blogger, BNET.com
• Ian Lamont, Managing Editor, The Industry Standard
• Al Lewis, Columnist, Dow Jones News Service
• Michael Limon, Business Editor, Salt Lake Tribune
• Eric Wieffering, Business Editor, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

2. How to Cover Distressed Companies and Bankruptcies

Chris Roush, Business Journalism Professor at the University of North Carolina, with assistance from American Bankruptcy Institute Director Sam Gerdano.

11 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

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11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Interviewing: How the FBI Does It

Instructor: FBI Special Agent Phil Niedringhaus

1:15 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Optional tour of National Renewable Energy Laboratories in Golden.

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