Special to SABEW
NEW YORK- Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, will address the growing impact of technology on cities at the SABEW fall conference. Doctoroff heads Sidewalk Labs, a Google-funded innovation company tasked with developing technologies that address the biggest challenges cities face and improving urban life for all.
The conference will be held at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Oct. 8-9, beginning with an evening event Thursday, Oct. 8, and continuing with a daylong program, Oct. 9.
The Thursday evening program will feature the McGraw Symposium, a keynote panel on the continuing digital transformation of business journalism sponsored by CUNY’s McGraw Center for Business Journalism. Among the speakers is Andy Serwer, editor in chief of Yahoo Finance, and Gerard Baker, editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal. The Symposium will be moderated by Jane Sasseen, executive director of the McGraw Center.
Jim Compton, vice chairman of United Airlines, has confirmed to speak on the state of the airline industry. Additional session topics include: reporting on the business of health care and the recent ACA ruling and the 2016 presidential campaign. A special job recruiting session where participants are invited for “speed networking” with representatives of business journalism employers is also planned for Friday.
The program also includes skill building and how-to sessions on FOIA requests and investigative reporting among others.
Early-bird rates are now available for SABEW’s annual fall conference. Register here.
This will be the sixth consecutive year of collaboration between SABEW, a 3,600-member organization of business journalists, and CUNY, one of New York’s premier universities.
Personal Finance Reporting Workshop
For the third year, SABEW and the National Foundation for Financial Education (NEFE) will conduct a personal finance workshop on Thursday, October 8, before the start of the SABEW conference. Visit personalfinancesabew2015.sched.org
for more information.
Hotel Information:
SABEW has a block of hotel rooms available at The New Yorker, located at 481 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001. A discounted rate of $299 is available until September 7, 2015. Please contact the hotel’s reservations department at 1-800-764-4680 and mention SABEW in order to receive the special rates.
For more information, contact Spring Eselgroth, 602-496-7862 or email eselgroth@sabew.org.
Interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at SABEW’s fall conference? Contact Renee McGivern, SABEW sponsor/exhibitor director at 651-210-0911 or email rmcgivern@sabew.org.
