Conference Schedule as of March 5.

THURSDAY, March 18

(Note: A “Become a Multi-Media Business Journalist” track is being offered free to SABEW conference participants March 18-21 by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. Each “Become a Multi-Media Business Journalist” session will be marked with an asterisk (*). Each of these sessions, to be presented at the same site as the conference, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, is (a) limited to 20 participants, except for “How to Look Natural On Air,” which is limited to 10 persons,  (b) MUST BE REGISTERED FOR SEPARATELY here, where a description of each session may also be found, and (c) each attendee MUST bring a laptop.)

*8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. — Produce a Video Business News Story in a Day, with Brian Snyder, TV production specialist, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University. For more information and to register, click here. (Separate registration required; space limited to 20 participants. See Note at top of schedule.)

FRIDAY, March 19

*7:45 to 11:45 a.m. — How to Look Natural On Air, with Susan Green, broadcast director of Cronkite News Service,  Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University. For more information and to register, click here. (Separate registration required; space limited to 10 participants. See Note at top of schedule.)

8-11 a.m. — Early-bird workshop on finance and accounting

It is like going to the dentist. You hate it but you know you have to do it. If you have to learn accounting to be a business journalist, then do it with an excellent and lively teacher. Tom Contiliano is Bloomberg News CFO, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and former journalism trainer for the wire service. He will walk you through:

• Basics of cash flow statement and income statement with exercises.
• Reading a balance sheet and finding the hidden debt.
• How companies hide things in financial statements.
• Finding earnings traps.

Noon — Conference Welcome: Greg McCune, Thomson Reuters training manager; 2009-10 president, Society of American Business Editors and Writers (First Amendment Forum)

12:15-1:45 p.m. — KEYNOTE SPEECH with boxed lunch: Kenneth Feinberg, whom President Obama appointed special master for executive compensation, and has become known in the mass media as the White House’s “compensation czar,” with sweeping authority over the compensation given to executives of corporations receiving federal bailout money. With introduction by SABEW President Greg McCune. (First Amendment Forum)

Sponsored by Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal and Fox Business News

2-2:50 p.m. — Getting It Wrong: What journalists are missing in coverage of the stimulus and recovery, and what stories and trends to look for this year. Moderator: John Wasik, freelance journalist, speaker and author of 13 books. Speakers: Stephen Happel, economist, Arizona State University; Ali Malekzadeh, dean, Williams College of Business, Xavier University; Kathy Kristof, personal finance columnist. Sponsored by the National Endowment for Financial Education. (Cronkite Theater)

3-4 p.m. — KEYNOTE SPEECH: Ricardo Salinas Pliego, Mexican businessmen and one of Forbes World’s Richest People who serves as president and CEO of Grupo Salinas, whose holdings include telecommunications, media and retail stores. Introduction by Kevin Hall, national economics correspondent, McClatchy Newspapers. (Cronkite Theater)

4:15-5:15 p.m. — Sports CEOs Roundtable: The recession has hurt attendance, sponsorships and sales of luxury boxes. Many teams are struggling, and their leagues have not always been able to agree or work effectively on solutions. Players and their unions continue to press for better salaries and benefits – and labor strife looms in several sports. What lies ahead? Can teams and their leagues right themselves and flourish? Moderator: Josh Mills, professor, Baruch College. Speakers: Rod Graves, general manager, Arizona Cardinals; Derrick Hall, CEO, Arizona Diamondbacks; Douglas Moss, president and COO, Phoenix Coyotes; Rick Welts, president and CEO, Phoenix Suns. (Special thanks to Craig Harris of The Arizona Republic for arranging this panel.) (Cronkite Theater)

5:30-6:30 p.m. — KEYNOTE SPEECH: Robert Khuzami, SEC Director of Enforcement, who until 2009 served as general counsel for the Americas at Deutsche Bank. Introduced by Diana Henriques, senior financial reporter at The New York Times. (Cronkite Theater)
6:45 p.m.: Cocktail party. Sponsored by Reuters. (First Amendment Forum)

SATURDAY, March 20

7 a.m. — Continental breakfast, sponsored by Google.

8-9 a.m. —  KEYNOTE: Amit Singhal, Google fellow: “The Future of Web Search.” Introduced by Martin Wolk, business editor, msnbc.com. Sponsored by Google. (First Amendment Forum)

9:15-10:05 a.m. — Breakout panels:

• How to tell if the real estate recovery is real in your community: the economy may be technically out of the recession, but the real estate industry is in a depression. The looming commercial real estate crisis will profoundly affect every local metropolitan area, and could plunge the economy back into recession-mode. Join us for a discussion about where commercial and residential real estate is now, and take away tips and contacts that will help you and your staff cover the continuing crisis. Moderator: Ilyce Glink. syndicated real estate columnist, media entrepreneur and consultant, and author of Buy, Close, Move In! (HarperCollins, 2010). Panelists: Pete Bolton, executive vice president and managing director of Grubb & Ellis’ new Phoenix office (Room 256)
• Newsroom math for business journalists: Learn the basic math you need to know to avoid embarrassing mistakes in your stories. Presenter: Pulitzer-Prize recipient Steve Doig, journalism professor, Arizona State University. (Room 314)
  

10:20-11:10 a.m. Beyond the flak – developing great sources inside companies. Moderator: Kathy Kristof, syndicated personal finance columnist. Panelists: Jon Hilsenath, Fed reporter, Wall Street Journal; Diana B. Henriques, senior financial reporter, The New York Times; Peter Hillan, senior vice president Fleishman Hillard (Room 256)

11:20 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. — Breakout sessions: Advanced numbers for journalists

• Advanced math for business journalists: Learn some simple statistics and forensic accounting tricks that will help you find stories and draw conclusions from business data. Presenter: Steve Doig, Knight Chair in Journalism, specializing in computer-assisted reporting, at ASU’s Cronkite School and former associate editor/research of the Miami Herald. (Room 314)
  
• Better business writing online. (Room 256)
  

12:15-1:30 p.m. — KEYNOTE SPEECH with boxed lunch: New York Times Co. chairman and publisher Arthur H. Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the New York Times, whose newspaper just announced a new monetization that includes some free and some paid news content. Introduction by Lawrence Ingrassia, business and financial editor, The New York Times. Sponsored by the Phoenix Convention and Visitors Bureau (First Amendment Forum)

1:30 to 5:30 p.m. — Produce a Business News Podcast, with Mark Moran, news director for Phoenix National Public Radio affiliate KJZZ-FM. For more information and to register, click here. (Separate registration required; space limited to 20 participants. See Note at top of schedule.)

1:45-2:45 p.m. — Paid content on the web – the future or false hope? Moderator: Jason Manning, director of student media, Arizona State University. Speakers: Lawrence Ingrassia, business and financial editor, The New York Times; Ilyce Glink, who works with companies to create sponsored content to drive traffic, develop nurture campaigns, generate leads, and increase sales (she also uses content to drive traffic to her store and increase attendance at her events); Chris Gaither, senior communications manager, Google News; Gail Griffin, general manager, Barrons.com (Cronkite Theater)

3-4 p.m. — The future of news delivery: How will consumers get their news in the future? Our panel of experts shows the latest gadgets and talks about the next generation of content delivery. Moderator: Jonathan Blum, principal, Blumsday. Panelists: Francois Jeanneau, director of sales & business development, North America, Stantum, a European-based next-gen display software company that has developed a new multi-touch panel control technology; Dr. Roel Vertegaal, director of the Human Media Laboratory, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario; Douglas Loy, Ph.D., director of technology, Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University; Joel Domino, president, Kent Displays (First Amendment Forum)

4:15-5:15 p.m. — Klott ethics panel: 8th Annual Klott Memorial Symposium on Ethics. An interactive discussion about journalistic ethics during challenging times. Discuss with panel the dilemmas posed by the Internet and the unscrupulous using instant polling devices to compare opinions. Moderator: Gail Marks Jarvis, Chicago Tribune personal finance columnist. Panelists: Leslie Wayne, Donald W. Reynolds visiting professor in Business Journalism at Arizona State University and former business reporter at The New York Times; Myron Kandel, founding financial editor, CNN; Glenn Hall, editor, TheStreet.com. (Cronkite Theater)

(SABEW began the Gary Klott Ethics Symposium in 2003 to honor the late journalist Gary Klott, a former SABEW president who helped formulate the SABEW Code of Ethics.)

5:15-5:45 p.m. — SABEW Business Meeting (Cronkite Theater)

5:45 p.m. — Get on light rail to the Heard Museum. Light rail tickets courtesy of American City Business Journals.

6 p.m. — Cocktails and gallery tours of the Heard Museum. Sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.

7:30 p.m. — Best in Business Awards ceremony, sponsored by Bloomberg News. (Heard Museum)

SUNDAY, March 21

7 a.m. — Continental breakfast, sponsored by Google.

8:10-9:10 a.m. — Breakfast panel: Toyota’s fall from grace and what it means for consumer coverage. Journalists who covered the Toyota recall story discuss how they did it, tips for consumer coverage and implications for the future. Moderator: Susan Carney, business editor, Detroit News; Panelists: Ken Bensinger, reporter, The Los Angeles Times; David Bailey, Reuters deputy Detroit bureau chief; Masanori Murui, correspondent for Japan’s Nikkei Newspaper, based in New York. (First Amendment Forum)

9:20-10:20 a.m. — Entrepreneurial business journalism. Newspapers are hurting, but new Web sites are springing up fast and furiously. Executives who have launched or help to launch fledgling sites talk about what they’re doing and why the web is becoming the new frontier for journalism. Moderator: Warren Watson, executive director, Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Speakers: Dan Gillmor, director, Knight Center for New Media Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University; Eric Schurenberg, Editor-in-Chief of BNET.com and Editorial Director of CBS MoneyWatch.com, which he launched in six frantic weeks in early 2009; Rob Cox, a founder of Breakingviews.com in 2000 and directed the global financial commentary publication’s expansion in the U.S. until its sale to Thomson Reuters in December 2009; Carll Tucker, founder of MainStreetOnline.com. (Cronkite Theater)

10:25- 11:10 a.m. –

• Turning passive users into active ones. Presenter: Dan Gillmor, director, Knight Center for New Media Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University (Room 252)
  

• Using social media in business reporting 101 (beginner), with Robin J. Phillips, Web managing editor, BusinessJournalism.org, Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, Arizona State University. (Room 256)
  

11:15-12:00 p.m. –

• The economics of immigration: Are workers from other countries what the United States needs to keep running – or are they taking away jobs just when Americans need them the most? Moderator: Kevin Hall, Kevin Hall, national economics correspondent, McClatchy Newspapers. Panelists: Randy Johnson, senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits division; Steven Camarota, director of research, Center for Immigration Studies; Tim Gaynor, immigration correspondent, Thomson Reuters (Room  252)

• Using social media in business reporting 202 (advanced), with Robin J. Phillips, Web managing editor, BusinessJournalism.org, Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, Arizona State University. (Room 256)
  

12:15-1:15 p.m. — KEYNOTE SPEECH with boxed lunch: The Reconstruction of American Journalism. Speaker: Leonard Downie Jr., recently retired executive editor of the Washington Post, the successor to Benjamin Bradlee. Downie is co-author of a groundbreaking and controversial report proposing how to restructure U.S. journalism. What the profession should do to meet the journalistic and financial challenges it faces, based on the recent Columbia Journalism Review article of the same name Downie co-authored. Introduced by Warren Watson, executive director of SABEW. Sponsored by the Financial Times. (First Amendment Forum)

*1:15 to 4:15 p.m. — Taking Compelling Business News Photos, with Carlos Chavez, deputy photo editor, The Arizona Republic. For more information and to register, click here. (Separate registration required; space limited to 20 participants. See Note at top of schedule.)

End of Conference

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