New officers and board members elected

Gail DeGeorge, business editor of The SunSentinel in Fort Lauderdale, was named president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers during its annual conference on Monday.

Bernie Kohn, assistant managing editor of business for The Baltimore Sun, became SABEW¹s vice president. Greg McCune, training editor for Reuters, became treasurer. Rob Reuteman, business editor of the Rocky Mountain News, became secretary.

SABEW, with 3,500 members, is the leading trade group for business journalists. The three officers assumed their new jobs at the organization’s 44th annual conference in Anaheim, Calif. Dave Kansas, president of a joint venture between Dow Jones & Co. and IAC, completed his year-long term as president at the conference.

SABEW members also elected five new members to the Board of Governors:

Lisa Gibbs, business editor of The Miami Herald.

Dawn Wotapka Hardesty, a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires.

Ray Hennessey, editor of SmartMoney.com.

Rebecca Jarvis, a reporter for CNBC.

Chris Roush, a business journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Six incumbent governors were re-elected:

Becky Bisbee, business editor, Seattle Times;

Bill Choyke, business editor, Virginian-Pilot;

Diana Henriques, financial reporter, The New York Times;

Jill Jorden Spitz, assistant managing editor for news, business and training, Arizona Daily Star;

David Wilson, columnist, Bloomberg News;

Pamela Yip, personal finance reporter and columnist, Dallas Morning News.

Gibbs, Bisbee, Choyke, Henriques, Spitz and Yip will serve three-year terms. Roush and Wilson will serve two-year terms. Hardesty, Hennessey and Jarvis will serve one-year terms.

The new and re-elected governors join these current members of SABEW¹s board:

Cathie Anderson, business editor, the Sacramento Bee;

John Corrigan, deputy business editor, Los Angeles Times;

Andre Jackson, assistant managing editor/business of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch;

Gail MarksJarvis, columnist for the Chicago Tribune;

Josh Mills, journalism professor, Baruch College/CUNY;

Kevin Noblet, business editor for the Associated Press, and

Susan Tompor, finance columnist, Detroit Free Press.

SABEW is an independent, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to encourage comprehensive reporting of economic and financial events and to upgrade the craft's skills and knowledge through educational efforts.

SABEW is headquartered in Columbia, Mo., at the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.

Posted May 21, 2007