PHOENIX, March 1, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- About 250 business journalists, exhibitors and sponsors from across the country are expected to gather in Phoenix this month at the 47th annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers March 19-21.
The conference host city is where SABEW's Board of Governors voted in May to move the headquarters of the nation's largest organization of business newspeople. After 25 years in Missouri, SABEW's offices are now at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The packed weekend of workshops and seminars will give business journalists several high-quality resources in a time when business news has moved to the top of most media consumers' lists of must-know information, Watson said.
Keynote speakers during the weekend include:
- Arthur Sulzberger Jr., president of the New York Times Co. and publisher of the New York Times;
- Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of the Washington Post and an ASU journalism professor;
- Kenneth Feinberg, President Obama's executive-compensation 'czar'6
- Robert Khuzami, the chief of enforcement for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission;
- Ricardo Salinas Pliego, chairman of Grupo Salinas, one of Mexico's largest business conglomerates; Salinas is on the Forbes list of the world's richest people.
In addition, a track of classes on multimedia business journalism is being offered to conference attendees by ASU's Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. For information on the track, visit http://businessjournalism.org.
To register for the SABEW conference and for nearby hotel information, go to http://sabew.org and click on the words "Register Here" beneath the conference logo. For more information, contact Watson at watson@sabew.org or at (602) 496-5186.