SABEW names Best in Business winners

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced Thursday the 147 recipients of its 29th annual Best in Business Awards, honoring excellence in business journalism from 2023. The Best in Business Awards attracted 1,103 entries from 181 news organizations, ranging from international, national and regional news outlets to specialized business publications. Thank you to […]

ProPublica wins NYFWA award for distinguished financial journalism

The New York Financial Writers’ Association announced that ProPublica reporters Justin Elliott, Josh Kaplan, Brett Murphy and Alex Mierjeski have been named winners of the 2023 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism. The award is for a series of articles investigating conflict of interest, failed oversight and ethical indiscretions at the nation’s highest court. The series is titled, “Friends of the Court: […]

NAREE’s real estate journalism contest accepting entries

The National Association of Real Estate Editors has issued a call for entries for NAREE’s 74th Annual Journalism Competition. Deadline: Enter on www.naree.org between Feb. 1 and March 1, 2024, 11:59 p.m. EST. NAREE’s journalism competition is for work published or aired in 2023. Winners will be announced in June at NAREE’s 58th Annual Real Estate Journalism conference […]

The Markup, Bloomberg win Phil Meyer Awards

“Still Loading,” The Markup investigation, which exposed vast disparities in internet service quality from four major providers, earned the first place prize in the 2023 Philip Meyer Journalism Award. The Meyer Award recognizes the best uses of social science research methods in journalism. It is named for Philip Meyer, the author of “Precision Journalism,” who […]

Public Integrity wins Sidney Award for debt collection investigation

A Center for Public Integrity investigation into states’ harsh and often counterproductive collections tactics for unpaid income tax has won the January Sidney Award. The prize is awarded by the Sidney Hillman Foundation to an “outstanding piece of journalism that appeared in the prior month.” Among the findings: at least nine states can suspend or decline to […]

WSJ’s Gershkovich to receive National Press Foundation citation

Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been wrongfully detained by Russia for nearly 300 days, has been selected for this year’s National Press Foundation’s Chairman’s Citation. “The National Press Foundation supports the cause of a free press. Evan Gershkovich‘s detention is a wrongful act against the fundamentals of journalism, and his prompt release […]

NY Times reporter Craig, Pulitzer winner, receives Order of Canada

New York Times reporter Susanne Craig, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on Donald Trump’s finances, has received the Order of Canada, one of rhe nation’s highest honors. Brian MacLeod of The Windsor Star reports, “‘I can’t believe it,’ she said of her Order of Canada appointment. ‘I’m still kind of shocked about it.’ […]

SABEW’s Best in Business contest accepting entries

Starting its 29th year of honoring outstanding business journalism work, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing’s Best in Business Awards for 2023 is now open for entries. Enter for a chance to win the most prestigious award in business news. The competition will cover work published, broadcast and posted in the calendar year […]

Edmondson wins FT’s Business Book of the Year

Amy Edmondson is the winner of the 2023 Business Book of the Year Award for “Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive” about “intelligent failure” and how to take more sensible risks. The competition is sponsored by the Financial Times and Schroders. The award recognizes a work which provides […]

Dreier of NY Times wins WERT Prize for migrant child labor coverage

Hannah Dreier, an investigative reporter at The New York Times, won the WERT Global Prize for outstanding business reporting by a woman for “Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.” and related stories exposing a migrant child labor scandal involving some of the world’s largest corporations. The award is given by […]