SEC Chairman to Address Business Journalists

SEC Chairman to Address Business Journalists

COLUMBIA, Mo., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission that's embroiled in a media-rights dispute, on May 1 will speak to the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

The SEC in February subpoenaed two business reporters, touching off a furor in the journalism industry over press freedom. Cox later rebuked his enforcement staff for not consulting him before sending out the subpoenas, but the intersection of press freedom with regulators' duty to track down corporate wrongdoers will continue to generate great debate.

Chairman Cox will address that issue as well as corporate malfeasance and other issues when he speaks at the SABEW conference. The conference, which runs Sunday, April 30, to Tuesday, May 2, will be at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis Hotel in the Twin Cities.

Cox will not be the only one to discuss the challenges facing today's reporters.

Herb Greenberg, a MarketWatch columnist and one of the reporters subpoenaed by the SEC, will discuss the subpoenas and other tactics to intimidate investigative reporters in a panel discussion. He'll be joined by Joseph Nocera, a New York Times columnist, and Dan Colarusso, business editor of the New York Post. Dave Beal, columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, will moderate the panel.

Also, Myron Kandel, the retired TV business news reporter, will moderate the annual Gary Klott Ethics Symposium, focusing on hedge funds, short sellers, regulators and the ethical challenges for journalists and editors working in that realm. Participating will be Dave Kansas, Money & Investing Editor of The Wall Street Journal; Jane Kirtley, Silha Professor for Media Ethics and Law University of Minnesota, and Ed Wasserman, Knight Chair of Ethics at Washington and Lee University.

The conference will also offer panels on key challenges facing business reporters and editors. Among them: Dealing with the resource crunch; how to handle convergence, and covering real estate and the bubble debate.

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.

Journalists seeking more information about attending SABEW's annual conference should go to http://www.sabew.com/ or contact Carrie Paden, SABEW's executive director, at 573-882-8985 or padenc@missouri.edu.

Background information on the SEC-media debate is available at the Talking Biz News Web site -- an online partnership of SABEW and the University of North Carolina -- at http://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/?cat=12 .

Source: Society of American Business Writers

CONTACT: Carrie Paden, executive director, of SABEW, +1-573-882-8985,
padenc@missouri.edu

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

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