It’s not just Elon Musk. The combined net worth of the Trump administration’s circle of billionaires exceeds the GDPs of most countries. And there are so many more of them doing business in cities across America. Patrick Soon-Shiong in Los Angeles. Ken Griffin in Miami. Dan Gilbert in Detroit. New York alone has 110 of them. Keeping tabs on these magnates is not easy, but it can be done, and their doings make for compelling journalism.
Learn the rules of the road from three of the best on the billionaires’ trail, Emily Glazer from The Wall Street Journal, Joe Miller from the Financial Times and Theodore Schleifer from The New York Times. Moderating the session is Michael Powell, staff writer at The Atlantic.
Emily focuses on business leaders, power and influence for The Wall Street Journal.She previously covered topics including tech, money and politics and big banks. Emily was featured in and consulted on Netflix's ""Dirty Money"" episode on Wells Fargo. She has received Sabew, George... Read More →
Joe Miller is the FT’s Washington correspondent, covering Elon Musk's assault on the administrative state and the Trump White House's reshaping of the US economy.Joe previously covered white-collar crime as the FT’s legal correspondent in New York, and German industry for the... Read More →
Power up your ability to efficiently discover story leads and verify claims with basic Python commands and an understanding of how to explore the data offered in APIs. This session will demonstrate how to use programming code to search SEC filings, nonprofit disclosures and consumer complaint databases — practical techniques you can use to gather data at scale. No setup required, as we'll be walking through our sample analysis in a code notebook on our screen. Links will be provided so you can take this code home and adapt it to your own stories! This panel is in partnership with Investigative Reporters & Editors.
Allan James Vestal is a data journalist and editor who has worked for POLITICO, Bloomberg News, The Dallas Morning News and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.He has worked on teams to expose serious flaws in the nation’s newborn screening system, track residential natural gas accidents... Read More →
The technology story has permeated just about every beat, so being smart about tech is as essential to business journalism as understanding how to read financial statements. But tech companies are notoriously secretive and their doings can be complex and intimidating. We've gathered some of the industry's top tech journalists to demystify the subject, share ways to find knowledgeable sources and offer tips about breaking scoops. Lots to learn here even if you are already an experienced tech journalist.
Jackie Davalos is a reporter at Bloomberg News based in Washington DC where she covers technology companies, startups and venture capital. She is the co-host of the Bloomberg Originals series AI IRL and has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek. Jackie is also a regular contributor... Read More →
Rosalie Chan is a senior editor for Business Insider's Big Tech team, which covers the biggest tech companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and more. Previously, she covered cloud computing and enterprise tech.
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.
Abha Bhattarai is the Economics Correspondent at The Washington Post, where she covers the U.S. economy with an eye toward how data and policies affect everyday Americans. She previously covered retail for the publication and won the Gerald Loeb Award for her coverage of essential... Read More →
Karly Domb Sadof is a Pulitzer Prize-winning visual editor. She has over a decade of experience conceiving and executing revelatory visual stories that captivate new and diverse audiences using photography, video, audio, graphics, illustration, data and design. Currently, she is Deputy... Read More →
If you’re covering local business, data is vital to unearthing stories about your communities. In this session, we’ll learn to identify and navigate a few key data sources and analyze the numbers and statistics to reveal telling economic trends pertinent to your region — and help you walk away with some compelling story ideas. Attendees should bring their fully charged laptops to this hands-on session. This panel is in partnership with American City Business Journals.
Data reporter, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
Ethan Nelson is the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s data reporter. He produces the MSPBJ’s weekly list and tells business stories through data. He joined the MSPBJ in 2022. Before, he was the data reporter for the Denver Business Journal. He's a graduate of the University... Read More →
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.
Matt has been with CNBC for over 30 years, 25 of those years as the Washington Bureau Chief. During that time, CNBC has grown from the fledgling Consumer News and Business Channel to the Global leader in business news. This period of time included, the dotcom bubble and bust... Read More →
Vice President, Strategic Talent Development and Senior Executive Producer, CNBC
Mary Duffy is the Vice President of Strategic Talent Development and Senior Executive Producer of CNBC Business News where she focuses on the training and development of on air and digital talent. She also recruits and manages the CNBC Contributor portfolio of expert guests.Additionally... Read More →
Diana Olick is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, currently serving as CNBC’s senior climate and real estate correspondent. She also contributes her climate and real estate expertise to NBC News NOW, MSNBC, NBC’s “Today” and “NBC Nightly News.” She is a regular guest speaker... Read More →
Mary Catherine is CNBC’s Washington deputy bureau chief. Prior to joining the Washington bureau, she was the San Francisco bureau chief, helping launch the operation in 2015 and build CNBC’s tech coverage in the Bay Area. She also spent two years in the Los Angeles bureau as a... Read More →
Emily Wilkins is a CNBC correspondent for the network’s Washington, D.C. bureau, covering Congress, key regulatory issues and policies that impact American businesses and the economy. Prior to CNBC, Wilkins, an award-winning journalist, served as a reporter for Bloomberg Government... Read More →
Christina Wilkie is the Senior Politics Editor for CNBC.com, where she leads a team of digital reporters covering the White House, federal courts, Congress and elections. Wilkie joined CNBC.com in 2017 to cover the Trump White House, after building her career as a politics reporter... Read More →
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.
Mark Arsenault joined the Boston Globe, originally in the Washington, DC bureau, in 2010. He has covered national politics, gambling, general assignment, and worked five years on the Globe Spotlight investigative team. Prior to joining the Globe, Arsenault spent 10 years as a reporter... Read More →
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.
Mark Arsenault joined the Boston Globe, originally in the Washington, DC bureau, in 2010. He has covered national politics, gambling, general assignment, and worked five years on the Globe Spotlight investigative team. Prior to joining the Globe, Arsenault spent 10 years as a reporter... Read More →
Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H., is the president of the Commonwealth Fund. One of the nation’s preeminent leaders in health care policy, equity, quality, and community health, Betancourt formerly served as the senior vice president for Equity and Community Health at Massachusetts... Read More →
We've all been there: trying to compare different companies' stock performance, or pulling together economic indicators such as mortage rates, GDP variants or unenmployment for the region you cover. If you've been compiling it manually every time, this session will demonstrate how to use some easy-to-understand R code and a package called tidyquant to make things much easier. What's more, you can re-use it every day, month, or quarter, so that you never have to start from scratch again when you need the latest numbers for a story. No setup or prior experience with R is required - the session will walk through a demonstration and then give you the code to take home to play with afterwards.
Data and Investigative Journalist, The Associated Press
Aaron Kessler is an award-winning journalist and project leader specializing in investigative reporting and data analysis at the intersection of business and politics. He has nearly 20 years of experience as a reporter, data journalist and newsroom innovator covering a range of subjects... Read More →
Once a year, publicly traded companies produce a document with a wealth of information: the proxy statement. Inside, you’ll find extensive information about how much the company pays its CEO and top executives.
This discussion will highlight the key sections of the proxy and show how to report on exactly how much an executive made. It will begin with an introduction to various forms of stock awarded to executives as compensation.
A journalist since 1994, David Milstead has written for Canada’s Globe and Mail since 2009. Previously he worked at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. He’s won multiple national business journalism awards in the U.S. and Canada from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and... Read More →
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.
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 →
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 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 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 →
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.
