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Welcome to SABEW’s 2014 conference in downtown Phoenix, hosted by Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication!
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Saturday, March 29 • 8:00am - 8:45am
Moving from the newsroom to the classroom: the good, bad and the ugly

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Journalists who want to switch to a college classroom may find the transition surprising. They will give up deadline pressure, downsizing and those multimedia challenges for … deadline pressure, downsizing and those multimedia challenges. Those who pursue tenure will discover the challenging world of academic research. Then there are those endless faculty meetings.

But it can be worth it. Molding promising young folks, writing books or producing documentaries, and looking at the journalism world in a fresh light can be rewarding. There’s nothing like teaching, too, to teach you your own craft. Then there are those summers off.

We’ll explore the ups and downs of academic life. Folks who made the move will swap war stories and winning techniques, sharing tips on how to inspuire students to become great business journalists. Mary Jane Pardue presenter.
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Joe Weber

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Joe Weber, the Jerry and Karla Huse Professor of News-Editorial and an associate professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, worked in magazines and newspapers for 35 years. He spent most of that time, 22 years, reporting and writing for BusinessWeek, starting as... Read More →

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Rob Reuteman

Professor, Colorado State University
Rob Reuteman is in his fifth semester as an adjunct journalism professor at Colorado State University, a career change initiated by a grant from the Reynolds Center. Reuteman had been business editor and columnist at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver for 12 years before it was shut... Read More →
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Marty Steffens

professor and SABEW Chair, University of Missouri
As the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) endowed chair, MARTHA STEFFENS teaches business and financial journalism, economics for journalists, and entrepreneurial journalism. Steffens joined the faculty at Missouri in 2002 after a distinguished 30-year career... Read More →
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Rob Wells

University of Maryland
Rob Wells is a Ph.D. student and a lecturer at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and a former Reynolds Visiting Professor in Business Journalism at the University of South Carolina. He is a former deputy bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal/Dow... Read More →

Saturday March 29, 2014 8:00am - 8:45am MST
The Cronkite Theatre (Room 202) 555 N. Central Ave. Phoenix, Ariz. 85004, 2nd. Floor
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