SABEW25

Charts, photos, illustrations and videos can always spice up a ho-hum business news story. But sometimes these visual elements are more than just the centerpiece, they are the best way to tell the story. If you have ever wanted to learn new ways to hook your audience into your business news, this is the session for you.  You will learn how to identify visually driven stories that are better told through visuals, with prose assisting. As all audiences have come to expect more excitement and engagement from traditional media sources, there’s never been a better time to learn how visual journalism can help you tell great business news stories.

Journalists today are responsible for  pitching ideas, sharing highlights of  coverage with wider audiences across multiple platforms and building a recognizable and trustworthy personal brand.  

In this interactive session, members of the CNBC DC Bureau TV and Digital editorial teams will teach you strategies to successfully pitch, prepare and present cross platform to maximize your reach.

This panel is in partnership with CNBC.

Consumer confidence is waning, economists are lowering growth forecasts, and the stock market is increasingly volatile. Tariffs are on, then off, and then on again. How is the Fed navigating this tenuous moment for the economy? What are ordinary Americans to make of it? Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, discusses the economy in the era of Donald Trump's sweeping second-term agenda with SABEW Board President James Nelson, business editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Heather Long, an economics columnist at The Washington Post.

The White House handpicks the press pool covering President Trump. Google changes its algorithm to reduce the search visibility of news content. Americans' distrust of journalists rivals their distrust of Congress. And U.S. newsrooms struggle as audiences shrink. In a conversation with Sara Fischer, media correspondent at Axios, Murray will assess the state of the news industry in an extraordinary year of tumult, disruption, uncertainty -- and opportunity.

Last year, the Globe Spotlight Team exposed crippling financial practices at Steward Health Care, one of the nation’s largest, private-equity owned hospital chains, the immense human cost of that neglect and the government’s failure to prevent it. In this session, journalists will share the strategies behind their scoops, including how they were able to document the huge profits Steward generated for its investors and CEO, even as it starved its hospitals in ways that put some patients at deadly risk. They’ll also give tips on navigating sensitive stories and collaborating inside and outside of the newsroom.  This session is sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund. SABEW retains control of content, including the topic and speaker selection, for all conference sessions.

The private equity industry controls huge pools of money, exerts power over business and politics, and is almost entirely opaque. Members of the Globe Spotlight team will talk about how they pierced the secrecy surrounding PE-founded Steward Health Care and produced stories that executives never wanted to see. They will be joined in conversation by Commonwealth Fund President and longtime Boston primary care physician Joseph R. Betancourt discussing the growing impact of private equity ownership on various facets of the U.S. health care system.  This session is sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund. SABEW retains control of content, including the topic and speaker selection, for all conference sessions.

SABEW's 30th annual Best in Business Awards celebration, sponsored by Bloomberg News, recognizes outstanding work from 2024. We'll also announce the President's Award recipient.

Celebrate the Best in Business Award winners Friday from 6:45-7:30 p.m. Appetizers, beer, wine and soda will be served.

Thank you to Bloomberg for sponsoring the 30th Annual Best in Business reception.