Three new officers take the reins in August.
ASBPE members have approved the Society’s slate of national officers for the
2007–2009 term, beginning after the August 2–3 National Editorial Conference.
For President: Steven Roll is a senior editor for BNA’s The Monthly State Tax Report, in Washington, D.C. Since 2003, Roll has served as president of ASBPE’s Washington, D.C., chapter.
Last year, Roll co-edited ASBPE’s Journalism That Matters, a book comprised of case studies about business-to-business (B2B) journalists who produced stories that triggered an important change within the markets they covered.
For Vice President: Amy Fischbach, former Kansas City chapter president, worked for Prism Business Media (now Penton Media) for eight years as an award-winning writer and managing editor before beginning her freelancing career.
In 1999, she began working as an associate editor for CEE News, an electrical trade magazine, and later joined EC&M magazine as a staff writer. She then served as the managing editor of Club Industry’s Fitness Business Pro magazine.
For Treasurer: Jyme Mariani is managing editor of three national trade magazines and two quarterly publications at Branch-Smith Publishing in Fort Worth, Texas. She has been with the company for 12-1⁄2 years.
Mariani was president of the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter for six years and is now immediate past president as well as chapter treasurer.