Roush elected to SABEW board

Roush elected to SABEW board 

Chris Roush, James Shumaker Term Assistant Professor and director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, has been elected to a two-year term on the board of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW).

SABEW, with 3,500 members, is the leading trade group for business journalists. The independent, not-for-profit organization’s mission is to encourage comprehensive reporting of economic and financial events and to upgrade the craft’s skills and knowledge through educational efforts.

In addition to Roush, five new governors were elected to the 22-person board: Lisa Gibbs, business editor of The Miami Herald; Dawn Wotapka Hardesty, a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires; Ray Hennessey, editor of SmartMoney.com; and Rebecca Jarvis, a reporter for CNBC.

Roush is founding director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, which provides training for professional journalists and students at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is also the author of two books about business journalism – “Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication” and “Profits and Losses: Business Journalism and its Role in Society” – as well as author or co-author of books about Home Depot, Pacific Coast Feather Co. and Alex Lee Inc. He has also taught business journalism at Washington & Lee University and the University of Richmond.

He is managing editor of the SABEW Web site, blogs about business journalism at www.talkingbiznews.com and writes a twice-monthly blog called “The Roush Rant” for the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, where he is a lead instructor. He has also created a Web site on the history of business journalism.

Roush has led business journalism training sessions for media organizations such as the Associated Press, Reuters, The Motley Fool, Media General newspapers, The Orlando Sentinel, The Mobile Register, the South Carolina Press Association, the International Center for Journalists and newspapers throughout North Carolina. He has also worked with media outlets and universities in South Africa to improve business journalism in that country.