Posted By Mark Scarp

By MARK J. SCARP, SABEW Staff

PHOENIX, Feb. 18 – With four weeks to go until the start of SABEW’s 47^th Annual Conference in Phoenix, 20 organizations have signed up to exhibit, far more than the 12 that exhibited at last year’s conference in Denver, society officials announced.

Longtime exhibitors, such as Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, will be joined by The Associated Press, Google, Gorkana, the National Endowment for Financial Education and the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.

SABEW is negotiating with several other exhibitors, creating the possibility of the list of 20 growing even more by the time SABEW members convene March 19-21 at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in downtown Phoenix.

Exhibitors’ booths will be set up encircling the school’s First Amendment Forum, said SABEW executive director Warren Watson.

The list of exhibitors as of Feb. 18 includes the following:

The Associated Press

B2B CFO

Bloomberg News

Business Wire

City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism

Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism

GlobeNewswire

Google

Gorkana

IBISWorld

Idaho Department of Commerce

Marketwire

National Endowment for Financial Education

North American Securities Administrators Association

NeighborWorks America

Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Thomson Reuters

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Wyoming Business Council