SABEW offers an updated and constantly growing spectrum of member services, including:

Awards and Competitions

• The Best in Business Contest, which highlights overall excellence in newspaper business sections and pages, weekly business journals and wire services.  The news contest rewards superior coverage of breaking news and enterprise stories.
• The Distinguished Achievement Award, presented annually to outstanding business journalists.

Education and Training

• An annual national conference that includes specialized workshops, field trips and panel discussions geared to expose SABEW members to new ideas in business and economic journalism. The annual event features speeches by important figures in the news and a provocative ethics discussion.
• Annual fall workshops in New York City on hot topics in business and economic journalists.
• Scholarships presented to students and professionals.
• Specialized onsite and online programming, call-ins and webinars.
• Bootcamps and special institutes on vital topics facing business journalists.
• Regional gatherings in selected cities sponsored by SABEW.
• SABEW Endowed Chair in Business and Financial Journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia.  Martha “Marty” Steffens occupies the chair.  The SABEW chair develops business journalist curricula for undergraduate, graduate and mid-career professionals.

Networking Opportunities

• A member directory accessible only by members consisting of hundreds of business journalists in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
• Active social networking sites (Facebook, Linked In, Twitter) with all the latest news and SABEW information.

Publications

• A new vibrant web site.  Redesigned with additional features, our web site (www.sabew.org) offers an up-to-date look at business journalism. The site also contains contest and registration materials for training.
• Occasional newsletters.  The Business Journalist features articles designed to improve the quality of business and economics reporting and to inform members about industry trends.
• An online, searchable membership directory.