SABEW Announces New President, Six Board Members for Business Journalists' Organization

SABEW Announces New President, Six Board Members for Business Journalists' Organization

COLUMBIA, Mo., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Jonathan Lansner, business columnist for The Orange County Register, is the new president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Dave Kansas, Money and Investing editor at The Wall Street Journal, has moved up to vice president. Gail DeGeorge, business editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, is SABEW's new secretary-treasurer.

SABEW, with 3,400 members, is the leading trade group for business journalists. The three officers assumed their new jobs at the organization's 42nd annual conference in Seattle. Rex Seline, managing editor for news at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, completed his yearlong term as president at the conference.

SABEW members also elected six new members to the Board of Governors:

* Cathie Anderson, business editor, Sacramento Bee.

* Mark Braykovich, business editor, Atlanta Journal Constitution.

* Charles Crumpley, business editor, New Orleans Times-Picayune.

* Gail MarksJarvis, columnist, St. Paul Pioneer Press.

* Kevin Noblet, business editor, The Associated Press.

* Rob Reuteman, business editor, Rocky Mountain News.

Two incumbent governors were re-elected:

* George Haj, assistant managing editor for business, Houston Chronicle.

* George Gombossy, business editor, Hartford Courant.

These eight governors join 10 current members of SABEW's board: Becky Bisbee, business editor, Seattle Times; Bill Choyke, business editor, Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va.; Henry Dubroff, chairman and editor, Pacific Coast Business Times; Diana Henriques, financial reporter, The New York Times; Andre Jackson, assistant managing editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Bernie Kohn, assistant managing editor for business, Baltimore Sun; James T. Madore, media writer, Newsday; Greg McCune, training editor, Reuters America; Joshua Mills, professor of journalism, Baruch College/CUNY; Jill Jorden Spitz, assistant managing editor for news, business and training, Arizona Daily Star.

Seline will serve SABEW in an ex-officio role this year along with the last two past presidents: columnists Kathy Kristof of the Los Angeles Times and Chuck Jaffe of Marketwatch.

The 2005 SABEW annual conference featured appearances by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, National Economic Council Director Allan Hubbard, Costco CEO James Sinegal, and Craig Ueland, CEO of Russell Investment Group. SABEW also held its annual Gary Klott Ethics Symposium on "Covering Your Own Media Organization: The Good, the Bad and the Who Cares."

The 11th annual Best in Business Awards honoring 2004's finest business journalism were presented at the Seattle conference. In addition, SABEW honored Steve Shepard, former editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek, with its Distinguished Achievement Award. The organization also honored Bill Barnhart of the Chicago Tribune with its Service Award.

SABEW will continue its educational efforts with reporting workshops in St. Louis on Oct. 10-11. SABEW plans to hold its 43rd annual conference next spring in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

SABEW is an independent, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to encourage comprehensive reporting of economic and financial events and to upgrade the craft's skills and knowledge through educational efforts. SABEW is headquartered in Columbia, Mo., at the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.

For more information about SABEW, contact Carrie Paden, SABEW's executive director, at 573-882-8985 or padenc@missouri.edu. Or visit the organization's Web site at http://www.sabew.org/ .

Source: SABEW

CONTACT: Carrie Paden, Executive Director, SABEW, +1-573-882-8985,
padenc@missouri.edu

Web site: http://www.sabew.org/

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