PHOENIX, Aug 28, 2010 – Don’t have the lazy days of August quite out of your head yet? Because we know that a business journalist who has moved past the sun and fun of summer will be eager to attend SABEW’s fall conference, we’ve extended early-bird registration one week, to 8 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday, Sept. 7.

Now you’ve got the time and the focus to sign up to hear these big names and big topics in business and business news: The CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The COO of the New York Stock Exchange. The COO of JetBlue. Fox Business News’ Charlie Gasparino. Bloomberg News’ Jonathan Weil. A must-attend session on the true ins and outs of GDP.

These heavy-hitters highlight the exciting return of SABEW’s famed fall conference, Oct. 1-2 at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism

Hurry: Early-bird registration will close Sept. 7! CLICK HERE to register at the early-bird rate for members of $149 for two days of workshops and social/networking receptions (non-members’ early rate is $199; students’ is $50). CLICK HERE to lock in the $235/night hotel rooms available at the nearby Sheraton Four Points – Times Square (NOTE: this rate goes up after Sept. 3).

The fall event will be kicked off the morning of Friday, Oct. 1, with an address by William C. Dudley, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The conference will be highlighted by the joint appearance at lunch that Friday of Weil and Gasparino, two of the most outspoken journalists on Wall Street, giving their uncensored view of Wall Street regulation – and the next big financial bombshell. Plus, Starwood CFO and Vice Chairman Vasant Prabhu and JetBlue COO Rob Maruster will gaze into the skies with their predictions for the future of tourism in the wake of uprisings in Thailand, Europe’s financial mess, terror threats in Times Square, and of course, clouds of volcanic ash in the airspace above the Northern Hemisphere.

There’s much more:

• William C. Dudley, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, opens the conference the morning of Oct. 1.

William C. Dudley, president/CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• Hear experts discuss the early ramifications of health care reform in a panel headed by Elizabeth McBride, contributing editor for small business at Crain’s New York Business.

• And how bad are state and local governments’ finances? Robert Ward of the Rockefeller Institute and CUNY journalism professor Greg David will give you detailed perspectives.

• Learn how to read government statistics from actual government officials from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And learn how you might have been computing Gross Domestic Product the wrong way for a long time!

• A veteran freelancer, SABEW board member Maya Smart, will provide the basics for setting up a profitable freelance writing business.

• And the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will present at our event a special full-day workshop, “Produce a Business News Video in a Day,” that will do just that, even for the complete novice. Separate registration required; click here to sign up.

Plus, bring your best work for one-on-one critiques with a noted journalist!

So, let those little town blues start fading away: Register now to be in New York this fall to the return of the SABEW fall conference.

For more information and for exhibitor and sponsor opportunities write to Sue Davis at davis@sabew.org or call 602-496-7862.

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