Mark your calendars! SABEW, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, will hold its annual conference, Thursday, May 7 – Saturday, May 9, 2026, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Philadelphia Center City.
Whether you are a newsroom leader, early/mid-career journalist, academic, student, or PR pro, SABEW’s annual conference is tailor made for you, with diverse programming that will allow you to take home new ideas to use in your stories, newsrooms, or classrooms. Don’t miss the opportunity to network with other colleagues, hear from top industry leaders, and celebrate the winners of the Best in Business awards.
This year’s event will also feature a stop on RTDNA’s World Tour, bringing its signature focus on broadcast and modern newsroom leadership. Through interactive discussions and practical takeaways, Radio Television Digital News Association trainers offer insights into audience-centered coverage, ethical leadership and newsroom culture.
The conference will also include career enhancing collaborations with AAJA-NY, American City Business Journals, Bright Data, ESPN, IRE, The Commonwealth Fund, The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, RTDNA, and The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania.
Register today at an early-bird discount and we look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!
**Subject to change – check back frequently on our conference website as more sessions will be added as they are confirmed
BOLSTERING YOUR FINANCIAL IQ
- Beyond earnings: How reporters can decode financial statements (In partnership with The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania)
- From Wall Street to Main Street: Covering private equity’s growing reach
- Making financial stories personal
- Understanding bankruptcy: How to cover reorganizations
- What audiences actually want to know about money: A chat with Alexis and Dean Indot (Sponsored by RTDNA)
THRIVING IN A FRACTURED MEDIA INDUSTRY
- Fireside with Charles Forelle, managing editor, CBS News
- Business coverage in the age of shrinking newsrooms
- The journalist creator: Authority in the Age of TikTok and Influencers
- Beyond the Byline: How to cover business stories across platforms
- Sourcing up: How to build trust with reluctant sources
- Navigating Reddit: An insider’s guide on how get the most of the social media platform
- Why B2B journalism can be a great place to work
- Running on empty: Why we might be doing this to ourselves, and how to get re-energized about work (In partnership with RTDNA)
- Building blocks of a better team (In partnership with RTDNA)
- Writing and reporting with authenticity: The keys to breakthrough viewer connection (In partnership with RTDNA)
- Covering business and finance in communities: Reporting power, opportunity and impact (In partnership with RTDNA)
- One-on-one coaching sessions (In partnership with RTDNA)
MASTERING DATA
- Money in the bank: How to find and understand financial data (In partnership with the American City Business Journals)
- Decoding economic data
- Seeing the story in the numbers: Data visualization tools and techniques for business journalism (In partnership with RTDNA)
- Data in the Diaspora: How to find the right details in reporting about the economy and ethnic communities (In partnership with AAJA/NY)
- Unlocking information: FOIA strategies for business reporters
INVESTIGATING BUSINESSES AND INSTITUTIONS
- Backgrounding private and public businesses (In partnership with IRE)
- Verifying information online (In partnership with IRE)
- Pulling back the curtain on private companies
- Higher re-education: How colleges cope with current chaos (In partnership with the American City Business Journals)
HARNESSING THE POWER OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- How to build an AI agent (In partnership with Bright Data)
- AI at the bedside: Real or rhetoric (In partnership with The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation)
- Follow the money: Understanding AI profit in health care (In partnership with The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation)
- Artificial intelligence in business journalism: Using new tools without losing editorial control (In partnership with RTDNA)
- AI Apocalypse or Golden Age? Covering how AI disrupts and advances business
- In your backyard: How to cover the AI and data centers boom
FOLLOWING THE MONEY IN SPORTS
- Sports betting and scandals (In partnership with ESPN)
- Business of college sports (In partnership with ESPN)
Thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors!
Bloomberg, Bright Data, Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), The Commonwealth Fund, The National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) and The New York Times
