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How to Craft Compelling Business Stories

For many writers, the most daunting part of working on a business story is actually writing it. This hour-long session will go over the most crucial steps to keep in mind when crafting a compelling story that will keep readers interested, share crucial information, and not get bogged down in the numbers and lingo one associates with business stories.

Lunch, & Network

Maria Ramirez Uribe
Immigration Reporter, PolitiFact

Rosalie Chan
Senior Editor, Business Insider

Rosalie Chan is a senior editor for Business Insider's big tech team, which covers the biggest tech companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and more. Previously, she covered cloud computing and enterprise tech, where she reported on companies like Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Intel, Alibaba Cloud, Atlassian, GitHub, VMware, and more. She has written extensively on topics including cloud computing, developer companies, and open source. She received the Excellence in Business / Consumer / Tech Reporting award from the Asian American Journalists Association for her investigation into the coding bootcamp Holberton School.

Rosalie joined Business Insider after working as a software engineer and freelance journalist. She studied journalism, computer science, and technology and business law at Northwestern University. Her work has previously appeared in TIME, the Huffington Post, VICE, Pacific Standard, Inverse, Chicago magazine, the Chicago Reporter, and more. She's currently based in San Francisco.