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PHOENIX- Finalists have been announced for the 2013 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. As in the past, many finalists being recognized have been recent winners in SABEW’s Best in Business competition. This year is no different.
Below is a list of 2012 BiB winners who are now up for a Loeb.
Breaking News Category Finalists
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SABEW Staff Report
PHOENIX--Commemorating SABEW’s 50th anniversary, the six-minute video, The History of SABEW retraces the events that have helped shape the organization.
Founding member Gene Miller and Myron Kandel, two-time president, discuss SABEW’s founding and is early development.
Other SABEW members and past presidents, including Phil Moeller, Gail DeGeorge, Bernie Kohn and Jodi ...[
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SABEW Staff Report
PHOENIX, May 14, 2013 —Whether you are an experienced personal finance reporter or you’re just looking for local angles on the nation’s college debt crisis, this training call is for you. We’ll talk about what the key statistics to look at are, how to cut through the jargon, and stories that reporters can and should be looking for.
To sign up for the call, click here.
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PHOENIX- Interested in publishing a book? The CUNY Publishing Institute is offering a five-day course that can help give you an edge in the fast-changing industry of book publishing. Representatives from Tumblr, Amazon, Knopf Doubleday and Hyperion-Disney are among those teaching the course. SABEW members can now receive a professional discount of $200 off the regular price. The ...[
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PHOENIX -- Joanna Ossinger, team leader for Bloomberg First Word, has been appointed to the executive ladder of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Ossinger fills a vacated slot and becomes the organization’s secretary. Through the succession process, she is scheduled to become president of SABEW in 2016.
Ossinger had been serving as a non-ladder member of the organization’s ...[
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Tips for great reporting and storytelling
April 29, 2013 - 2 p.m. EST
Listen to the Call:
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Moderator:
Lisa Gibbs
Lisa Gibbs is a senior writer at MONEY based in South Florida. Before joining the magazine in 2009, she covered the business world for a variety of Florida publications, including as Business Editor of the Miami Herald.
She shared ...[
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SABEW Staff Report
PHOENIX, April 18, 2013 — Join us on April 29th and gain insight into the reporting and storytelling process from three award-winning journalists.
To sign up for the call, click here.
Instructions: On the day of the call, dial 218-339-2626 and, when prompted, enter the access code 4058935 and you'll be put in to the call.
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SPECIAL TO SABEW
PHOENIX- University of Oklahoma and California State University, Fullerton will host two visiting business journalism professors for the spring of 2014.
This marks the third year that the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has funded the placing of business journalism professors at universities around the country. The program aims to promote a stronger ...[
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - Cherrelle Wade, a senior majoring in mass communications, is the 2013 recipient of the David J. Morrow Scholarship for Business Journalism at the University of South Carolina.
The Morrow scholarship is a partnership between the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, ...[
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SPECIAL TO SABEW
For a limited time, you can purchase a specially designed, glossy poster as a remembrance of SABEW’s 50th anniversary.
The 11-by-17 poster, hand-screened and printed on special glossy stock, features images of SABEW’s past presidents. It was prepared by graphic designer Lauren Steffens of Columbia, Mo., for the 50th conference on April 4-6 in Washington, D.C.
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SPECIAL TO SABEW
PHOENIX – Phoenix will be the site of the 2014 annual spring conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, executive director Warren Watson announced today.
The group’s 51st annual conference will be held March 27-29 at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on the downtown campus of Arizona State University.
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SPECIAL TO SABEW
NEW YORK – SABEW will conduct its annual fall conference Oct. 3-4 at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.
It will be the fourth year in a row for the collaboration between the 3,600-member organization of business journalists and one of New York’s premier universities.
The conference will include an evening program and reception on Thursday, ...[
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By JESSICA GOLDBERG
WASHINGTON - Two leading figures in the public media stressed on Saturday at the 50th Annual Society of American Business Writers and Editors conference that in order for public media to survive it will need a variety of funding sources.
The Future of Public Media session began in the morning during the third and final day of the conference. Dave Kansas a former SABEW president ...[
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By KYLE O'DONNELL
American finance is still strong despite some uncertainties in the market, said David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, at the Brave New World of Finance presentation at the 50th Annual SABEW Conference.
“Without a doubt, the best place to invest is the United States,” Rubenstein said.
Readily available and low financing, ample exit strategies and a 3 percent ...[
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kevin Hall, chief economics correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, is the new president of the 3,600-member Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW).
He succeeded Jill Jorden Spitz, senior editor at the Arizona Daily Star, last week as SABEW celebrated its 50th anniversary at its April 4-6 conference here.
Seven business journalists ...[
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By GARY HABER
Washington -- Free agency, “Moneyball” and the role of stadia and arenas in economic development were among the topics on the roster when an all-star panel of sports executives spoke at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ 50th annual conference Friday.
Within weeks after the Baltimore Ravens won Super Bowl XLVII in February, the team lost six of its starting ...[
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The University of South Carolina was represented at SABEW's spring conference this year by five students and one professor.
Rob Wells, professor of business journalism was able to attend with journalism students Lauren Rountree, Cherrelle Marquita Wade, Colin Matthew Campbell,Thad Moore and Cassie Cope, the 2012/2013 David Morrow Scholar.
In addition to providing excellent coverage of a panel session, ...[
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By: WHIT RICHARDSON
WASHINGTON- Journalists have always wanted to be first with a scoop, but the pace of news-breaking has increased to such a point in the digital age that accuracy is sometimes sacrificed for being first. And that’s worrying, according to a panel of editors speaking during the 11th annual Klott Memorial Ethics Symposium.
The symposium took place on the third ...[
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By JIM CRAMER
(Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money, addressed journalists at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers 50th Anniversary Gala on April 6, 2013. Here are his remarks.)
First, thanks so much to our SABEW hosts. I am thrilled to be here on this 50th anniversary night and I am proud to be amongst the best of the best of our profession.
When I first learned of this ...[
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By: LAUREN ROUNTREE
WASHINGTON - Imagine the pressure a parent would feel when their child excitedly opens an acceptance letter from their dream university. Outside, you share their joy, but inside you wonder how you will pay the whopping tuition bill.
Jane Clark, a senior editor for Kiplinger magazine, said these scenes are playing out in households across the country, a moment that could ...[
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By CHERRELLE WADE
WASHINGTON- Top media executives said Friday that despite circulation declines, they were not rejecting their print businesses but boasted about major growth in digital news and other forms of digital media.
“We believe strongly that print has a long future, and it is an important part of a rich portfolio we have to deliver,” said Kate Marymont, senior vice president for ...[
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By CASSIE COPE
WASHINGTON - AOL, Inc. CEO Tim Armstrong faces the challenge of bringing back a company that led the Internet roughly a decade ago. Development of AOL’s local news site Patch and purchase of the Huffington Post website are ways Armstrong is seeking to make his mark.
“We’re trying to do something really big and really bold in a space where most other people have given ...[
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By COLIN CAMPBELL
WASHINGTON —U.S. leaders missed key lessons from 2008 financial crisis and the nation will face another financial disaster unless it reduces the national debt and curtails the Federal Reserve Board’s aggressive support of Wall Street, two top budget experts said Thursday.
This warning came from David Stockman, a former Reagan administration White House budget director, ...[
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By BRANDON BROWN
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2013- The attendees of SABEW’s 50th Anniversary Gala were posed with a question from keynote speaker Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, is business journalism better or worse because of the Internet?
“The web changed business journalism in so many ways,” Cramer said. “I truly think there is a BW and an AW, before web and after web.”
Cramer ...[
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By THAD MOORE
WASHINGTON —Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen said Thursday she looks forward to when the central bank can “put away our unconventional tools” that’s led to $85 billion in monthly bond purchases and record low interest rates to prop up the economy.
Yellen, speaking to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers annual conference here, provided ...[
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PHOENIX – Three business journalists, including a founding member, will be honored with SABEW President’s Awards at the 50th annual spring conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in Washington, D.C., April 4-6.
Founding member Gene Miller, of Boca Raton, Fla., will be joined by Myron Kandel and Martha Steffens. Kandel, of New York ...[
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Regular attendee list
Becket Adams, Business/Finance Editor, TheBlaze.com
Ferdous "Danny" Al-Faruque, Editor, FDA News
Brad Allen, Economics & Business Journalist, Freelance
Kevin Allenspach, Reporter, St. Cloud Times
Andrea Susan Anderson, Editor, The Food Institute
Susan Antilla
Binyamin Appelbaum, Washington ...[
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By CASSIE COPE
The impacts of business journalism travel from Wall Street to dirt roads in rural South Carolina. Esteemed business journalist David J. Morrow demonstrated how to be the best in the industry and his memory as a tenacious reporter and encouraging editor motivates students like me aspiring to succeed in business journalism.
I dabbled in business journalism the summer after my ...[
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How to Cover the Sequester and How to Find Local Angles on the Story
Monday, March 18, 2013
Below are instructions on how to listen to the call on your computer or your telephone.
• To listen to the recording on your computer, click here.
*This is an MP3 digital audio file, which can be played with any digital audio player supporting MP3 playback (e.g. Windows Media Player, ...[
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How to Cover the Sequester and How to Find Local Angles on the Story
March 18, 2013 - 2 p.m. EST
Learn how to put a local spin on the national sequester.
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Moderator:
Bernie Kohn, Team Leader, Bloomberg News, Washington, D.C. and former SABEW president
Bernie Kohn is a team leader at Bloomberg News’s Washington bureau overseeing ...[
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By SABEW Staff
PHOENIX, March 15, 2013 -- SABEW members will be casting online ballots for candidates running for the Board of Governors for the Society of American Business Editors and Writers starting today at 8 p.m. Eastern time until 4 p.m. Saturday, April, 6.
Seven candidates will vie for seven board slots, six three-year terms ending in the spring of 2016 and one two-year term ending in ...[
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SPECIAL TO SABEW
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Major CEOs. Top government officials. Leading business journalists. A popular television personality.
Those will be the featured attractions at the April 4-6 spring conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, to be held at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, will be the first keynote speaker ...[
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SPECIAL to SABEW
PHOENIX – Nineteen journalists have been chosen to receive scholarships to attend SABEW’s 50th anniversary conference in Washington, D.C., April 4-6.
Funding came from four separate sources – SABEW’s Dave Morrow and Benita Newton funds, plus charitable contributions from the Goldschmidt Family Foundation and the SABEW Chair at the University of Missouri, according to ...[
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By RAY HENNESSEY
Special to SABEW
Many business journalists worked with Jim in some capacity in our careers, from his start in broadcast journalism in the early 1980s up through his most recent work writing his blog, Financial Balderdash, until late last year. He was the Zelig of business news, peeking out seemingly everywhere, from Bloomberg to CNBC to Financial News Network and to FOX Business ...[
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SABEW Staff Report
Phoenix- The CFA Institute will be holding a free, two-hour session focused on Claritas, a their new investment certificate program.
This media seminar will be based on Ch. 4 of the Claritas curriculum (see the syllabus).
The session is open to journalists and will cover the following:
• Comparing information provided by the income statement, balance sheet, ...[
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SABEW D.C. Spring Conference
April 4-6, 2013
Marvin Center, George Washington University
Updated March 18, 2013
WiFi for conference attendees sponsored by CNBC.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 4:
8 a.m. to 9 a.m. — SABEW Board Private Breakfast, George Washington Inn.
9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.- SABEW Board Meeting, George Washington Inn.
9 a.m. — Exhibits open – Continental ...[
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PHOENIX – The Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has awarded two journalists a $1,000 fellowship each to attend the 50th annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in Washington April 4-6.
Jacquelinne Mejia, a producer/correspondent for EC Hispanic Media in California, and Darren L. Sands, money editor for BlackEnterprise.com in New York, will ...[
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SPECIAL TO SABEW
SABEW continues development of a history of business journalism project in conjunction with its 50th anniversary.
The effort, headed by 1988 president Phil Moeller, who works for U.S. News and World Report, will be formally rolled out at the group’s spring conference in Washington, D.C., April 4-6. Moeller will give details of the effort as part of SABEW’s 50th anniversary ...[
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SPECIAL TO SABEW
This year's Best in Business competition included winners from news sources large and small, and far and wide.
Here are some stories and packages to sample as you get ready for the BIB presentations at the annual SABEW spring conference at George Washington University April 5. The full conference runs April 4-6.
Here's our sampling:
* The Providence Journal's.......Curt ...[
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How to Break News: Staying Competitive in a 24-hour News Environment by Producing High-Quality Compelling News Coverage
Feb. 25, 2013 - 2 p.m. EST
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Moderator:
Kevin Shinkle
Before joining The Associated Press in November 2008, Kevin Shinkle was business editor of The Star-Ledger in Newark. He joined the newspaper in 2000 as deputy business ...[
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SPECIAL to SABEW
PHOENIX— The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) has announced winners of its 18th Best in Business competition, which honors excellence in business journalism across all news platforms.
Click here for the complete list of winners and judge's comments.
The 136 winners represent all corners of business journalism, from the Providence Journal to The Wall ...[
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By MARTY STEFFENS
PHOENIX -- Television personality, business news entrepreneur and author Jim Cramer will be keynote speaker at SABEW’s 50th anniversary gala on Saturday, April 6.
“Cramer is an iconic figure who has contributed greatly to business journalism,” says Jill Jorden Spitz, SABEW president and assistant managing editor/business of the Arizona Star.
About 350 persons will ...[
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SABEW Staff Report
PHOENIX, Feb.15, 2013 — Join us on Feb. 25th and learn how to produce news coverage that'll keep the attention of viewers in a 24-hour news environment.
To sign up for the call, click here. On the day of the call, dial 218-339-2626 and, when prompted, enter the access code 4058935 and you'll be put in to the call. Callers may only listen in to the panelists' discussion, ...[
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PHOENIX – SABEW’s 18th annual Best in Business competition attracted a record 1,120 entries this year, Warren Watson, executive director, announced today.
The competition includes entries from three foreign countries, more small websites and other specialty publications, Watson said.
The contest, the largest of its kind, is now being judged. Winners will be announced ...[
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SABEW Staff Report
This year, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will award two $1,000 fellowships to attend the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) 50-year anniversary conference in Washington April 4-6.
The fellowship is open to full-time journalists who want to attend the center’s free training before and during the conference, as well as ...[
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Special to SABEW
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A special gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers will conclude the group’s annual spring conference April 6 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel.
The gala, a fundraiser that will include dinner, benefit auction, history moments and a guest speaker, will be the highlight of the April 4-6 SABEW conference ...[
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By PAMELA YIP
NEW YORK ---- Journalists covering health care boosted their knowledge of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), thanks to top experts in the health care field, who spoke to 17 journalists during a Jan. 17-18 symposium sponsored by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the Commonwealth Fund.
The event was held at Reuters headquarters at 3 Times Square. Commonwealth ...[
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By PAULA BURKES
(Paula Burkes is a reporter at The Oklahoman. She was a participant in a Jan. 17-18 symposium conducted by SABEW in New York City. The symposium covered the business of health care and included discussion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The seminar was sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund.)
Imagine if your doctor — before prescribing a drug or ordering a ...[
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Deduction for medical expenses goes from 7.5 percent of AGI to 10 percent under Obamacare....[
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'Death panel' myth stays alive...[
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