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Saturday, May 9
 

8:00am EDT

Continental breakfast
Saturday May 9, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EDT

Saturday May 9, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EDT
Symphony Ballroom Foyer, third level

8:15am EDT

Speed mentoring
Saturday May 9, 2026 8:15am - 8:45am EDT

Saturday May 9, 2026 8:15am - 8:45am EDT
Ormandy East, lobby level

9:00am EDT

Running on empty: Why we might be doing this to ourselves, and how to get re-energized about work
Saturday May 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Overwhelming stress and burnout aren’t just about overworking — they’re about broken systems and outside influences that tax every fiber of your bones. Learn to identify broken workflows and replace them with efficiencies that keep you running at full speed without running yourself into the ground. 

This panel is in partnership with RTDNA.
Speakers
avatar for Nicholas Whitaker

Nicholas Whitaker

Founder, Rebellion Collective
Nicholas Whitaker is an executive capacity coach, mindfulness in nature facilitator, leadership guide and writer who works at the intersection of culture, well-being, and technological change. After more than a decade working inside Google and the tech industry on education, learning... Read More →
Saturday May 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Ormandy East, lobby level

9:00am EDT

Understanding bankruptcy: How to make sense of corporate reorganizations
Saturday May 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Becky Yerak has been covering corporate bankruptcies for nearly a decade at The Wall Street Journal from Wilmington, Del., where she has a front-row seat to the maneuvers companies make as they stave off creditors in their fight for survival. Becky will provide a bankruptcy primer that demystifies corporate restructuring and explains how to deliver stories that go beyond court proceedings and legal filings. Rachel Jaffe Mauceri, an attorney at Robinson & Cole LLP, will join Becky to help elucidate the topic.
Speakers
avatar for Rachel Jaffe Mauceri

Rachel Jaffe Mauceri

Attorney, Robinson & Cole LLP
Rachel Jaffe Mauceri is a corporate bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience counseling clients in complex bankruptcy and restructuring matters. She is known as a strong communicator and collaborator with a record of success in developing client relationships... Read More →
avatar for Becky Yerak

Becky Yerak

Bankruptcy reporter, The Wall Street Journal
I cover chapter 11 bankruptcies for the Wall Street Journal and WSJ Pro Bankruptcy from Wilmington, Del., a major venue for business restructurings.

I've written four bankruptcy-related Page One WSJ features, also known as A-heds, on nuclear pacemakers, a damaged model of the Queen Mary ocean liner, abandoned Redbox movie vending machines and ear-piercing reminiscing in court. The Mansion section ran my feature about actor Kevin... Read More →
Saturday May 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Symphony Ballroom, third level

10:00am EDT

AI doom or boom? Covering how AI disrupts and advances business
Saturday May 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
AI is seeping into every industry. Reporters share how they're holding AI tools accountable, covering tech companies, and how AI is changing every field of work. This panel showcases how to cover predictive and generative AI tools built by some of the largest technology companies in the world, as well as their impact on rapidly changing businesses.
Moderators
avatar for Hilke Schellmann

Hilke Schellmann

Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University
Hilke Schellmann is an Emmy award-winning investigative journalist and associate professor of journalism at New York University.

Her research focuses on algorithmic accountability and the societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly examining how AI systems... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Henry Chandonnet

Henry Chandonnet

Business News Reporter, Business Insider
Henry Chandonnet is a reporter for the Business News desk at Business Insider. He covers consumer AI and tech culture. Henry previously wrote for Fast Company, where he covered trending tech news. He's also written for The Daily Beast, People Magazine, and Vulture. 
avatar for Hayden Field

Hayden Field

Senior AI reporter, The Verge (Vox Media)
Hayden Field is the senior AI reporter at The Verge. She's been on the AI beat for six years, regularly covering the biggest names in AI, the industry's shifting power dynamics and the tech's societal implications, as well as the AI arms race at large. Prior to The Verge, Field was... Read More →
Saturday May 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Ormandy West, lobby level

10:00am EDT

Covering business and finance in communities: Reporting power, opportunity and impact
Saturday May 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Business and finance coverage plays a powerful role in shaping how communities are understood — who is seen as an economic actor, whose businesses are valued and whose challenges receive sustained attention. Some coverage often centers narrowly on disparities, without equal attention to entrepreneurship, ownership, innovation and economic leadership.

This session explores how business journalists can report more fully and accurately by broadening story frames, sourcing and context. The conversation focuses on covering economic power, small and midsize businesses, labor, housing, access to capital and wealth creation while avoiding stereotypes and oversimplification.

This panel is in partnership with RTDNA.
Speakers
avatar for Cassie Owens

Cassie Owens

editor-in-chief and executive director, The Philly Download
Cassie Owens is a journalist and filmmaker from Philadelphia. In 2019, at the Inquirer, she co-produced Legendary, a short-film that won the Shine award at the BlackStar Film Festival. In her work as an organizer at Free Press, organized nearly two dozen journalists and community... Read More →
Saturday May 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Ormandy East, lobby level

10:00am EDT

Investigating businesses and nonprofits
Saturday May 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
No matter your beat, digging into nonprofits, charities and corporations can yield great accountability stories. We’ll show you where to look and what records and data are available, including how to spot red flags in tax documents.

This panel is in partnership with Investigative Reporters & Editors.
Speakers
avatar for Laura Kurtzberg

Laura Kurtzberg

Training Director, Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE)
Laura Jael Kurtzberg is a data visualization specialist, cartographer, and a news applications developer with a particular interest in environmental stories. Laura has worked at the intersection of data journalism and design with organizations like InfoAmazonia, Ambiental Media, WLRN... Read More →
Saturday May 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Symphony Ballroom, third level

11:00am EDT

Data in the diaspora: How to find the right details in reporting about the economy and ethnic communities
Saturday May 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
The current economic forces — good and bad — aren’t being felt evenly by everyone. In this session, panelists will discuss their approaches to telling rich stories about how the economy is playing out for various ethnic communities in the United States. Expect to learn some data tricks and get some insights into the ways reporters immerse themselves in community-based reporting.

This panel is in partnership with AAJA-NY
Moderators
avatar for Alex Kenney

Alex Kenney

Director of Partnerships, AAJA New York
Alex Kenney is the Director of Partnerships for the New York chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. She also reports on industry trends in New Jersey for ROI-NJ and has previously covered AAPI-owned businesses for AsAmNews.
Speakers
avatar for Viviane Eng

Viviane Eng

Communications Manager, The Municipal Art Society
Viviane Eng is a multimedia storyteller and communications strategist, whose work covers the intersections of culture and political economy. She serves as the communications manager at The Municipal Art Society, an urban design and preservation nonprofit based in New York City.
avatar for Julia Park

Julia Park

data analyst, PolicyMap
Julia Park is a Data Analyst at PolicyMap, a data and mapping analytics platform that bridges geographic data and community decision-making. She specializes in spatial data processing, with a background in public health research and health equity. Julia previously worked at the CDC... Read More →
avatar for Irene Casado Sánchez

Irene Casado Sánchez

Investigative Data Reporter, Bloomberg News
Irene Casado Sánchez is an investigative data reporter at Bloomberg News. Previously, she worked at Big Local News, a Stanford University project that provides data, training and tools for local reporting. She collaborated with Reuters’ Global Enterprise team to investigate the... Read More →
Saturday May 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Ormandy East, lobby level

11:00am EDT

Hiding in plain sight: How to find (most) anyone's phone number and email address
Saturday May 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Learn how to identify and reverse engineer personal contact information for sources using breach data, reverse metadata searching, data broker data and creative guesswork.
Speakers
avatar for Zack Kopplin

Zack Kopplin

Investigative Journalist, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Investigative journalist specializing in cross border corruption and acquiring hard to access documents.
Saturday May 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Ormandy West, lobby level

11:00am EDT

Pulling back the curtain on private companies
Saturday May 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
From ChatGPT to TikTok to SpaceX: Several of today’s most influential companies are privately held which challenges journalists accustomed to the plentiful information available on public companies. Journalists who have developed sources, scoured documents and found other ways to uncover closely guarded details share their best tips for covering private companies, whether big or small. 
Moderators
avatar for Ben Glickman

Ben Glickman

Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Ben Glickman is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he has written about Wall Street and finance since late 2024. He previously covered the automotive industry for The Journal and wrote about corporate breaking news.
Speakers
avatar for Corrie Driebusch

Corrie Driebusch

Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Corrie Driebusch writes about the most buzzed-about initial public offerings and secretive private companies for The Wall Street Journal. After more than a decade in New York, Corrie is now based in D.C. focusing on how U.S. public and private markets are evolving. Corrie has won... Read More →
avatar for Echo Wang

Echo Wang

M&A editor in charge, Reuters
Echo Wang is editor-in-charge of M&A coverage at Reuters, where she leads a team of reporters covering high-stakes dealmaking and exclusive corporate stories. She scooped SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI, OpenAI’s plans to go public, and the potential sale of OnlyFans, and revealed... Read More →
Saturday May 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Symphony Ballroom, third level

12:00pm EDT

Beyond the Byline: How to cover business stories across platforms
Saturday May 9, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Audiences are changing fast and with it, the way they consume journalism. Attention spans are shorter, platforms are more fragmented and many readers are finding business news through social feeds, podcasts, video clips and newsletters before they ever click on a story. 

For journalists, that raises a pressing question: How do you tell rigorous, nuanced business stories beyond the traditional written word? This session will feature reporters who are successfully using social media, audio, video and other formats to reach new audiences. They’ll share the creative risks they’ve taken, what’s worked (and what hasn’t) and how experimenting with new storytelling tools has changed the way they approach their reporting.
Moderators
avatar for Craig Duff

Craig Duff

Professor, Northwestern University/Medill
Craig Duff is a professor at Medill and also the graduate journalism Video and Broadcast Specialization leader. He is an award-winning video journalist and documentary television director, producer and writer, specializing in multi-platform storytelling and solo journalism. Before... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Stephanie Dhue

Stephanie Dhue

Senior Producer, CNBC
Stephanie Dhue is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and senior producer at CNBC, where she has spent more than a decade shaping the network’s high-impact coverage of politics, personal finance, and global events. Based in Washington, D.C., she brings a deep understanding of business... Read More →
avatar for Tom Fitzgerald

Tom Fitzgerald

Transportation Reporter, The Philadelphia Inquirer
I have covered how transportation shapes lives and cities for five years. Before that I spent more than 20 years as a Harrisburg correspondent, a Philadelphia City Hall reporter and as an Inquirer national and state political writer. Proud graduate of the University of Michigan in... Read More →
avatar for Stacey Vanek Smith

Stacey Vanek Smith

Columnist, Bloomberg Businessweek
Stacey Vanek Smith is a journalist and podcast host highly regarded for her insight and reporting on work, business, and economics. She is known for bringing clarity, insight, and wit to the stories shaping our economy. Stacey is a columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek, cohosts the... Read More →
Saturday May 9, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Symphony Ballroom, third level

12:00pm EDT

Business coverage in the age of shrinking newsrooms
Saturday May 9, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Local newsrooms are shrinking – and in some cases disappearing. Business journalists need to identify their audience and adapt coverage to connect with readers. Learn how newsrooms are prioritizing business beats, topics and using metrics to inform coverage. We’ll discuss how to lean into real estate, transportation, consumer behavior, workplace/labor, and how to localize national stories. And we’ll show how coverage can benefit from alternate story formats and social media.
Moderators
avatar for Letrell Crittenden

Letrell Crittenden

Director, Center for Community-Engaged Media, Temple University
Letrell Deshan Crittenden, Ph.D., is the inaugural Director of the Center for Community-Engaged Media at Temple University. In his year at Temple, he has guided the direction of the new center, which seeks to serve the information needs of communities by working by, for and with members... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Julie Bykowicz

Julie Bykowicz

Business and Enterprise Editor, The Baltimore Banner
Julie Bykowicz is the business and enterprise editor at The Baltimore Banner, where she leads a team of reporters tackling ambitious stories. She previously covered national politics, with a focus on money and influence, for The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and Bloomberg... Read More →
avatar for Cynthia Henry

Cynthia Henry

business editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Cynthia Henry has served as the Philadelphia Inquirer’s business editor since 2022 and as the built environment editor since 2017. Previous roles include politics editor for the 2016 presidential election, South Jersey editor and reporter, editorial writer, and commentary edito... Read More →
avatar for James B. Nelson

James B. Nelson

business editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
James B. Nelson is business editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 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 1995 merger of the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel. During the coronavirus pandemic, he’s the team leader for economics and business coverage for the Journal Sentinel... Read More →
Saturday May 9, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Ormandy West, lobby level

12:45pm EDT

SABEW election results announced. Pass the gavel
Saturday May 9, 2026 12:45pm - 1:00pm EDT

Speakers
avatar for Pia Sarkar

Pia Sarkar

deputy global business editor, The Associated Press
Pia Sarkar is the deputy global business editor for The Associated Press, helping to oversee a department of 40+ people. She also serves on the AP’s stylebook committee and its award-winning race & ethnicity team.

Prior to The AP, Pia was an editor and reporter for several media outlets, including The American Lawyer and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is currently president of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and a board member of the South Asian Journalists Associati... Read More →
Saturday May 9, 2026 12:45pm - 1:00pm EDT
Symphony Ballroom, third level

1:15pm EDT

Board of Governors meeting
Saturday May 9, 2026 1:15pm - 3:15pm EDT

Saturday May 9, 2026 1:15pm - 3:15pm EDT
Aria B, third level
 
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