COLUMBIA, MO (March 15, 2002) — Byron (Barney) Calame, a deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, will receive the 2002 Distinguished Achievement Award of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Inc. (SABEW) at its 39th Annual Conference in Phoenix, Az., April 30.
Calame, immediate past president of the organization, will be honored for his tireless efforts on behalf of the Journal and business journalism in general, especially through the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. SABEW also will thank Calame for lending his talents to the organization at a time of rapid growth and increased demands on its services.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Calame’s apartment in Manhattan’s upper west side became a critical command post for publishing the next day’s Journal, after the newspaper’s offices in the financial district were ordered by security personnel to be cleared.
“We were strung out along our commuting routes when the attack occurred,” Calame recalled in remarks to a Missouri School of Journalism-at the University of Missour alumni group last month. “So, the basic communication about who was alive, where to go, what to do was made more difficult.” Calame is an 1961 alumnus of the school.
“I”™m not sure the Journal would have reached its readers on Sept. 12 had it not been for Barney’s leadership,” said Bill Barnhart, financial markets columnist for the Chicago Tribune and current SABEW president. “Barney represents the best in mentoring, not only at The Wall Street Journal but also at SABEW, during challenging times.”
Calame joined SABEW in 1995. In his year as president, 2000-2001, the organization began a major upgrade of its Web site, https://sabew.org, and completed a campaign to endow the SABEW Endowed Missouri Chair in Business and Financial Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism.
He joined The Wall Street Journal in 1965 as a reporter covering real estate and construction. He held bureau chief posts in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles and became a deputy managing editor in 1992.
Calame is the 11th business journalist to receive the SABEW Distinguished Achievement Award since it was established in 1993.
SABEW is a 501(c)(3) education organization representing 3,200 journalists and based at the Missouri School of Journalism. Its 2002 Annual Conference will be held April 27 – 30, in the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort in Phoenix.
Source: SABEW
Contact: Carolyn Guniss, executive director, SABEW, 573-882-8985; Bill Barnhart, SABEW President, financial markets columnist, Chicago Tribune, 312-222-3599.
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