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News Archive2007 News: Sixteen volunteers vying for 11 SABEW board seats By Jonathan Lansner In an election that could greatly change the face of SABEW governance, 16 people have volunteered to run for 11 vacant seats on SABEW’s board of governors. An unusually high number of the 18 governor seats are up for grabs. Traditionally, six terms end each spring at our annual meeting. This year, the board lost three members to resignations: Charles Crumpley, George Gombossy and Mark Braykovich. They cited new work assignments for their departures. Additionally, to be filled are terms of Greg McCune of Reuters, our new treasurer, and Rob Reuteman of the Rocky Mountain News, who’ll become secretary at the annual meeting. The top six vote-getters will serve three-year terms. The next two top vote-getters will serve two years. The next three will serve one-year terms. Of the 16 running for governor, six – Becky Bisbee, Bill Choyke, Henry Dubroff, Diana Henriques, Stephen Keating, and Jill Jorden Spitz – were previously elected to the board. Two others – David Wilson and Pamela Yip – were appointed last year to the board by SABEW President Dave Kansas. The election will be held May 21 at our annual conference in Anaheim, Calif. You must be present at the annual meeting to vote; institutional members receive one vote. What follows are brief statements by the candidates, in alphabetical order, summing up their experience and vision for SABEW. More on their views can be found at www.sabew.org. Becky Bisbee Nancy Blair
Bill Choyke
Henry Dubroff
Lisa Gibbs
Dawn Wotapka Hardesty
Ray Hennessey Diana B. Henriques
Rebecca Jarvis Stephen Keating
Mary Jane Pardue
Chris Roush
Jill Jorden Spitz
Jim Watters
David Wilson
Pamela Yip
Posted March 13, 2007
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I joined SABEW in the last millennium, beginning when I was the business editor at The Modesto (Calif.) Bee. I have edited SABEW's newsletter, The Business Journalist, since 2003 and have served on the board's executive committee since the Kristof administration. While the business editor at the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman, I organized the second Technology Conference in 1998. I also organized the 42nd Annual Conference in May 2005 in Seattle. I am a 1979 graduate of the journalism school at the University of Maryland, College Park. Fear the turtle. 
I oversee technology coverage for USA Today's Money section and have new responsibilities for the Tech section at USA Today.com. As newspapers across the country learn how to blend print and Web operations, I hope to bring lessons from my own experience at a national newspaper to the SABEW board. I joined USA Today in 2000 as personal finance editor and have been an editor of various stripes for Gannett since 1987. I’ve worked in Cherry Hill, N.J., at the Gannett-owned Westchester Rockland Newspapers in White Plains, N.Y., and for Gannett News Service. I am based in San Francisco.
During my initial term on the board, I participated in SABEW's fund-raising and diversity efforts, serving as development chair or co-chair for two years and working with the historically black universities to foster interest in business reporting and editing among minority college journalists. We have made progress in both areas, but I think there is so much more work to do. I want the opportunity to continue to do this work which is so important not only to SABEW as an organization but business journalism as well.
As a longtime SABEW governor and past president, I have served as a link between the current board and the days when our contests and the SABEW chair were just dreams. As the majority owner of the Business Times, I have a unique perspective as an editor and entrepreneur. My company’s success in recent years convinces me that content will be the long-term winner in print, in broadcast and on the Web. I currently serve as Audit Committee chair. I believe SABEW is facing some exciting times as we reach out to new members and try to find ways to connect with our peers across the globe.
We're all dealing with changing times, even as we have to get the next edition out. In writing and editing for magazines (covered investing for Money magazine), metro newspapers, and specialty business pubs over the years, and now running the Miami Herald's Business section, I've gotten a view from many seats. I think I can help SABEW help you wade through the murk, and continue the good, earnest work of our predecessors. If that's not enough, think about this: SABEW South Beach, 2009.
I cover real estate and economic development for the Long Island Business News. I spent four years at the News & Observer and, while earning my master's degree in business and economic reporting from NYU, I interned at the Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News and Newsday. My goal is to represent a wider group of journalists -- the smaller-market and niche media crowd that may not be familiar with SABEW. I aim to increase and encourage their participation. I also want to mentor young journalists and assure them business journalism is a specialty with a promising future.
I am editor of SmartMoney.com, managing all editorial and video content. I also appear weekly as a financial commentator for CBS News. Since joining Dow Jones & Co. in 1998, I have held several positions across a variety of media. Before SmartMoney.com, I was news editor at Dow Jones Newswires, managing the wire's personal finance and fund-industry coverage. I wrote the IPO Outlook column for The Wall Street Journal from 1999 through 2004, and was a regular contributor to several other business publications. I'd like to increase my involvement in SABEW to help it play a bigger role and provide more resources for reporters dealing with the needs to write across a variety of media and platforms.
I am seeking election to a second term as governor so I can continue supporting its leadership’s efforts to insure SABEW’s success in a turbulent professional environment. As a governor, I have worked on an ad hoc committee to establish a board audit committee, organized a judging panel for our annual contest, helped research and draft public policy statements and led several workshops at our conferences. I was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and won numerous other prizes in 2005 for my work exposing insurance and investment rip-offs of young military consumers.
As a governor, I would apply my experience in both print and broadcast journalism, and my background in business to helping SABEW grow, with a particular focus on broadcast and digital communities. I currently cover as an on-air reporter for CNBC: energy from the New York Merc, technology from NASDAQ, and emerging markets and metals. A former investment banker, I've executed interest-rate trades on Citigroup's foreign exchange desk and analyzed and advised $6 billion in M&A, equity and debt transactions for Banc of America Securities. I left financial services to pursue a career in journalism and have written for publications from Crain's Chicago Business to Business 2.0. I'm the daughter of current SABEW governor Gail Marks-Jarvis of The Chicago Tribune
I've served on the SABEW board for one year and was recently named co-chair of the Development Committee, which is responsible for leading our fundraising strategies. Having launched and headed a non-profit research foundation at the University of Denver, I bring that expertise to SABEW. I am also on our Audit Committee and the Best in Business Contest Committee. I was named business editor of The Denver Post in 2003 and was previously a business reporter there. I recently stepped down as business editor to launch and edit The Post's online political coverage for the 2008 election cycle. I appreciate the opportunity to serve SABEW, its members and the mission of excellence in business journalism.
I have 28 years of experience as a print journalist and worked at The Commercial Appeal, the South Florida SunSentinel and the Nashville Banner. I have been a reporter, columnist, assistant city editor, wire editor, copy editor, assistant Neighbors editor, deputy business editor and business editor. I hold bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in English. My research interests include timely and accurate reporting of business news and the corporatization of American journalism. I am writing a book on newspaper ownership. I teach business reporting, news reporting and writing, magazine writing, public affairs reporting, and media ethics. I have been a member of SABEW for 10 years.
More than 15 years after joining SABEW when I was a business reporter at the Tampa Tribune, it’s time to give something back to the organization that helped foster my career. I used SABEW’s publication, The Business Journalist, its Web site, and its annual conference to become more knowledgeable about the field. What SABEW can do for all business journalists is provide them the information and training they need. That’s why I’ve started to help others in the field with SABEW’s Talking Biz News blog and working to provide news and information on the SABEW web site.
I am assistant managing editor at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, where I oversee news sections — including Business — and run the paper’s training program. I was elected to the SABEW board in 2004 and am proud to serve as a voice for small papers. I have been Best in Business contest committee co-chair for the past two years and am on the training committee. Back home, I chair the Arizona Press Club contest, opened a library for kids reading below grade level through the Rotary Club of Tucson and am treasurer of the First Amendment Coalition of Arizona.
I joined The Union-Tribune as business editor in 2001, after a 22-year career at The Miami Herald. In San Diego, I supervise 20 journalists responsible for covering a diverse business community. In Miami, I served as deputy business editor and as editor of The Herald's Business Monday section. I am a graduate of the University of Missouri. In business journalism for 18 years, I've seen our sections rise to become equal to other departments of the newspaper. Now, with the industry suffering as never before, it's vitally important that we fight to retain the resources we need to do our jobs. SABEW can help us do that.
I have worked for Bloomberg News since 1990, the news service's first year. I began as a stock-market reporter and later served as bureau chief in New York and Princeton, global training editor and managing editor for global stock markets. I co-wrote “The Bloomberg Way,” an in-house guide to business and financial journalism. Before coming to Bloomberg, I spent 8 1/2 years at Dow Jones. I wrote about stocks for his last three years at the company after surviving a tryout in October 1987. I am married to Sandy Gonzalez, a former SABEW governor.
I want to contribute to an organization I consider vital to the advancement of business journalism. The first board meeting/retreat I attended, in Chicago in February, impressed and inspired me. The board has shown foresight in recognizing that we have to expand our membership to include new media. I'm also very encouraged by the board's desire to recruit more members from other countries. Specifically, I would like to serve on the Education/Diversity Committee. At The Morning News, I help develop training for the business news staff, and I was a team leader in 2006 for newsroom-wide training.