SABEW members will be casting ballots this year for candidates running for six seats on the Board of Governors. Each term lasts for three years, ending in the spring of 2020.
There are seven candidates running for the six available seats. All are members in good standing.
The incumbent board members running for the board are:
- Robert Barba, technology editor, American Banker
- Shobhana Chandra, Economics reporter, Bloomberg News
- Glenn Hall, U.S. news editor, The Wall Street Journal
- Dean Murphy, Associate editor, The New York Times
The following three candidates are also running for a seat on the board:
- Rich Barbieri, executive editor, CNNMoney
- Marilyn Geewax, senior business news editor, National Public Radio
- James B. Nelson, deputy business editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Robert Barba
Technology editor
American Banker
@Barba_AB
Robert Barba is the technology editor of American Banker. Prior to his move to the technology beat, Robert served as deputy editor of American Bankerâs deal making and strategy section. He joined American Banker in late 2007 as a community banking reporter, just in time for the financial crisis. Robert played a lead role in covering community banksâ struggle for survival in the years following the downturn. Robert has appeared on Fox Business to discuss bank failures and the Treasury Departmentâs Troubled Asset Relief Program. Prior to joining American Banker, Robert was a general business reporter at Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers in Stuart, Fla. He began his career as a business desk intern at The Denver Post and Boulder Daily Camera. Robert is based in New York.
Shobhana Chandra
Economics reporter
Bloomberg News
@ShoChandra
Shobhana (Sho) Chandra is a Washington-based economics reporter for Bloomberg News, which she joined in 1998. She covers the U.S. economy, from jobs and consumer spending to manufacturing, trade, prices and housing. She previously worked in New Delhi for two of Indiaâs biggest business newspapers, Economic Times and Financial Express, around the time the South Asian economy was opening up to the rest of the world in a bigger way. Sho also is a member of the National Press Club, where she helps with editing the NPCâs Wire and with judging for scholarship awards. Her masterâs degrees include MSJ from Northwestern Universityâs Medill School of Journalism, and MA in Economics from Delhi University, India.
Glenn Hall
U.S. news editor
The Wall Street Journal
@GlennHall
Glenn Hall is the U.S. editor of the Wall Street Journal, overseeing coverage of the economy, politics, real estate, education, law, crime and general news across America.
Dean Murphy
Associate editor
The New York Times
@deanemurphy
Dean E. Murphy is an award-winning journalist who has been named Associate Editor at The New York Times. He previously served as Business Day Editor since 2013. Prior to his appointment, Murphy had been a deputy editor for seven years on the business and national desks. Before becoming an editor, Murphy worked as a reporter for both The Times and the Los Angeles Times for 20 years. At The Times, he served as the San Francisco bureau chief during the gubernatorial recall, and the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and earlier as a political writer covering the first election campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Michael Bloomberg. At the Los Angeles Times, he held a variety of posts, including bureau chief in Warsaw, Poland, in the years after the collapse of communism, and in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the presidency of Nelson Mandela and the transition from apartheid. He also covered civil wars in the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone and Angola, and while based in California, the business and politics of water scarcity in the West. Murphy is the author of the critically acclaimed September 11: An Oral History (Doubleday 2002), and the recipient of a variety of awards.
Rich Barbieri
Executive editor
CNNMoney
Rich Barbieri is the executive editor of CNNMoney, one of the top business and financial news destinations. Barbieri oversees digital coverage and newsgathering for CNNâs worldwide coverage of brands, media, markets, economics, technology, and personal finance. Barbieri manages a team of more than 60 reporters and editors around the world across platforms. He also oversees CNN MoneyStream, CNNMoney’s new personalized business news app. Barbieri previously served as the managing editor at CNNMoney and joined CNN in September 2007. Prior to joining CNN, Barbieri worked for 15 years at American Lawyer Media as a reporter and editor covering law, business and government in New York, Washington and San Francisco. He spent the last five of those years as editor in chief of Legal Times in Washington. Barbieri also worked as New York news editor at the Associated Press and as managing editor of Crainâs New York Business. He won an AP reporting award in 1992 for coverage of Californiaâs first execution in decades, and his newsrooms have won more than 100 editorial and design awards from local and national journalism organizations.
Marilyn Geewax
Senior business news editor
National Public Radio
@geewaxnpr â
Marilyn Geewax is a senior business news editor at NPR, assigning and editing radio stories. Since the election, she has had a special assignment, heading a team of reporters covering the Trump administrationâs conflicts of interest and ethical issues. She regularly discusses those issues on NPR’s mid-day show Here & Now and writes for the NPR web site. Before joining NPR in 2008, Geewax served as the national economics correspondent for Cox Newspapers’ Washington Bureau. Before that, she worked at Cox’s flagship paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, first as a business reporter and then as a columnist and editorial board member. She got her start as a business reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal. Over the years, she has filed news stories from China, Japan, South Africa and Europe.
James B. Nelson
Deputy business editor, PolitiFact Wisconsin reporter
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
@jamesbnelson
James B. Nelson is a reporter for PolitiFact Wisconsin and Deputy Business Editor for the Journal Sentinel. Heâs been an editor for the Journal Sentinel in business news, and before that in local news, since the 1995 merger of the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel. At the Milwaukee Sentinel, Nelson spent 10 years as a reporter covering City Hall, Milwaukee County government, and state issues, including agriculture, environment, business and Indian treaty rights. Before joining the Sentinel, he worked as a reporter at the Waukesha Freeman, Baraboo News-Republic and Stoughton Courier Hub. An Appleton native, Nelson is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received a bachelorâs degree in economics and political science. Heâs a past president of the Milwaukee Press Club, and past president of the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra board of directors. Nelson also is a part-time instructor at Marquette University
