SABEW25: Full Schedule

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9:00am EDT

Saturday Session TBA

Saturday April 5, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am EDT

Senate Ballroom (2nd floor)

Saturday April 5, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Senate Ballroom (2nd floor)

Skill Building Session

10:00am EDT

How to file successful FOIA requests for business reporting

Saturday April 5, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT

Senate Ballroom (2nd floor)

Filing FOIAs is easy. Filing FOIAs that get results is challenging. Learn from business reporters who have filed many successful FOIAs about how they did it, strategies on how to use FOIAs to get information on businesses and non-governmental reporting targets, and how you can do it, too.

Moderators

Desiree Hanford

Professor and Director of Academic Integrity & Appeals, Northwestern University Medill

Desiree Hanford is a professor and the director of academic integrity and appeals at Medill. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that include news reporting and business and money reporting. Desiree is the co-faculty adviser for the Northwestern Business Review and a contributing... Read More →

Speakers

Ziva Branstetter

Senior Editor, ProPublica

Ziva Branstetter has been a senior editor at ProPublica since March 2022. Work she has edited at ProPublica has received national honors including two Polk awards.She previously served as corporate accountability editor at The Washington Post, where she led the award-winning Pandora... Read More →

Jason Leopold

Senior Investigative Reporter, Bloomberg News

Jason Leopold is a senior investigative reporter at Bloomberg News. He is a recipient of the 2023 Gerald Loeb award for investigative reporting, a 2022 George Polk award for health reporting and has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2016, Leopold was awarded the FOI... Read More →

David Cuillier

University of Florida Brechner FOI Project

David Cuillier is director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. He was a data journalist before earning his doctorate from Washington State University in 2006. He is co-author of The Art of Access: Strategies... Read More →

Saturday April 5, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Senate Ballroom (2nd floor)

Skill Building Session

11:00am EDT

Covering the economy during the Trump Era

Saturday April 5, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT

Senate Ballroom (2nd floor)

Saturday April 5, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Senate Ballroom (2nd floor)

Skill Building Session

12:00pm EDT

Harnessing AI in Business Journalism: How to transform an existential threat into a competitive advantage

Saturday April 5, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT

Senate Ballroom (2nd floor)

For more than two years, media organizations have been rocked by advances in generative AI that have flooded the internet with text and images indistinguishable from those generated in newsrooms. Now journalists are turning the tables, deploying AI in the research, reporting, organizing and presentation of their stories. A discussion about navigating this promising and potentially perilous terrain.

Saturday April 5, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Senate Ballroom (2nd floor)

Skill Building Session

12:45pm EDT

SABEW Election Results Announced, Pass the Gavel

Saturday April 5, 2025 12:45pm - 1:00pm EDT

Senate Ballroom (2nd floor)

Speakers

James B. Nelson

Business Editor & Instructor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Marquette University & SABEW Board President

James B. Nelson is business editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the SABEW Board President. He also teaches business journalism and editing at Marquette University.James has been an editor for the Journal Sentinel in business news and, before that, in local news, since the... Read More →

Saturday April 5, 2025 12:45pm - 1:00pm EDT
Senate Ballroom (2nd floor)