Twenty-five business journalists were selected for SABEW’s 2022 Goldschmidt FRED advanced data workshop on Oct. 19-21 in St. Louis. The journalists will visit the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis during the program to learn about economic data. They will also hear from speakers who will discuss how they take the pulse of the American economy, feed that information to the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and influence interest rate decisions.
The fellows include:
- Lisa Benton, health and wellness editor, Columbus African American News Journal/Freelance
- Seth Bodine, business and economic development reporter, Fort Worth Report
- Jeff Bollier, regional business reporter, Green Bay Press-Gazette/USA TODAY Network-Wisconsin
- Christa Corrigan, content editor, Buckingham Wealth Partners
- Gabriel Cortes, data journalist, CNBC
- Elena Cox, senior data reporter, Stacker
- Serge Debrebant, freelance contributor, Citywire Germany
- Kelly Dereuck, student reporter, Missouri Business Alert
- Sydney Franklin, real estate enterprise reporter, Cincinnati Enquirer
- Austen Hufford, national economics reporter, The Wall Street Journal
- Llewellyn Jones, data journalist, Investigative Economics
- Steph Kukuljan, real estate reporter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Gloria Lloyd, real estate reporter, St. Louis Business Journal
- Stephen MacLeod, CRE and economic development reporter, Memphis Business Journal
- Annika Merrilees, business reporter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Dan Mika, reporter/graduate student, Freelance/Missouri School of Journalism
- Tristan Navera, real estate reporter, Washington Business Journal
- Genevieve Redsten, real estate/financial growth/opportunities reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Gabriel Rubin, national economics reporter, The Wall Street Journal
- David Schepp, news editor, Cheapism.com
- Mitchell Schnurman, business columnist, The Dallas Morning News
- Maddy Simpson, data reporter, St. Louis Business Journal
- Joel Stinnett, senior reporter covering health care and banking, Nashville Business Journal
- Vanessa Sumo, data editor, Chicago Booth Review
- Kathryn Vasel, reporter, Freelance
“This is the second time we’ve done this workshop and it resulted in not only greater understanding of FRED data, but better stories,” said Marty Steffens, SABEW chair at the University of Missouri. “Reporters praise these economists as being extremely helpful and insightful in telling economic stories to our audiences.”
The workshop is funded annually by a grant from the Illinois-based Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation. The program is organized by Steffens with the St. Louis Federal Reserve supplying much of the content.
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