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 →
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 →
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.
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 →
Executive Director, Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW)
Stephanie became the executive director of SABEW on September 11, 2023. Prior to SABEW, Stephanie served 16 years with the Investigative Reporters & Editors organization. She joined IRE in 2007 as the organization’s conference coordinator and spent the past nine years as its director of eve... Read More →
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 →
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 →
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.
Heather Long is an economic columnist at The Washington Post and a regular contributor to Marketplace Radio. She won the 2024 Gerald Loeb Award for commentary and is a past SABEW "Best in Business" winner. She got her start in media at her hometown paper: The Patriot-News in Harrisburg... Read More →
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 →
Jerome H. Powell first took office as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on February 5, 2018, for a four-year term. He was reappointed to the office and sworn in for a second four-year term on May 23, 2022. Mr. Powell also serves as Chairman of the Federal... Read More →
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.
Sara Fischer is a media correspondent for Axios and a founding staff member at Axios. She is also a media analyst at CNN. Fischer authors a weekly newsletter on media trends that reaches over 160,000 professionals across the media, tech and entertainment industries. Beyond her weekly... Read More →
Matt Murray is the executive editor of The Washington Post. He was editor in chief of The WallStreet Journal and Dow Jones Newswires from June 2018 to January 2023, where he wasresponsible for all global newsgathering and editorial operations. Under his leadership, theJournal won... 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 →
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.
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.
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 →
