COLUMBIA, Mo., May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Gail DeGeorge, business editor of
The Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, was named president of the Society of
American Business Editors and Writers during its annual conference on
Monday.
Bernie Kohn, assistant managing editor of business for The Baltimore
Sun, became SABEW's vice president. Greg McCune, training editor for
Reuters, became treasurer. Rob Reuteman, business editor of the Rocky
Mountain News, became secretary.
SABEW, with 3,500 members, is the leading trade group for business
journalists. The three officers assumed their new jobs at the
organization's 44th annual conference in Anaheim, Calif. Dave Kansas,
president of a joint venture between Dow Jones & Co. and IAC, completed his
year-long term as president at the conference.
SABEW members also elected five new members to the Board of Governors:
Lisa Gibbs, business editor of The Miami Herald.
Dawn Wotapka Hardesty, a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires.
Ray Hennessey, editor of SmartMoney.com.
Rebecca Jarvis, a reporter for CNBC.
Chris Roush, a business journalism professor at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Six incumbent governors were re-elected:
Becky Bisbee, business editor, Seattle Times;
Bill Choyke, business editor, Virginian-Pilot;
Diana Henriques, financial reporter, The New York Times;
Jill Jorden Spitz, assistant managing editor for news, business and
training, Arizona Daily Star;
David Wilson, columnist, Bloomberg News;
Pamela Yip, personal finance reporter and columnist, Dallas Morning News.
Gibbs, Bisbee, Choyke, Henriques, Spitz and Yip will serve three-year
terms. Roush and Wilson will serve two-year terms. Hardesty, Hennessey and
Jarvis will serve one-year terms.
The new and re-elected governors join these current members of SABEW's
board:
Cathie Anderson, business editor, the Sacramento Bee;
John Corrigan, deputy business editor, Los Angeles Times;
Andre Jackson, assistant managing editor/business of the St. Louis Post-
Dispatch;
Gail MarksJarvis, columnist for the Chicago Tribune;
Josh Mills, journalism professor, Baruch College/CUNY;
Kevin Noblet, business editor for the Associated Press, and
Susan Tompor, finance columnist, Detroit Free Press.
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.
SOURCE Society of American Business Editors & Writers
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Related links:
http://www.sabew.org
CONTACT:
Vicki Edwards of the Society of American
Business Editors and Writers, +1-573-882-2878
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