ACBJ receives Judge’s Special Recognition at SND Awards
American City Business Journals, which publishes more than 40 weekly business newspapers across the country, received the only Judges’ Special Recognition at the Society for News Design competition. Here is what the judges said: Judges’ Special Recognition for a body of work that shows commitment to an overall design philosophy, while encouraging originality and adaptability. […]
ACBJ names Eagle Award editorial winners
The following editorial staffers were named Eagle Award winners by American City Business Journals CEO Whit Shaw: Will Anderson, managing editor, Austin Business Journal. “Will is a major reason why ABJ consistently ranks in the top 10 for premium conversions and exceeded our 2020 goal by 21%. He also helped lead the team to some […]
AP, WSJ, BusinessWeek, Fortune among Deadline Club Award finalists
The New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has named the finalists for its Deadline Club Awards. The business journalism category finalists are: Business Feature Christopher Cannon and Josh Eidelson, Bloomberg Businessweek, “How the American Worker Got Fleeced” Jared S. Hopkins, The Wall Street Journal, “How Pfizer Delivered a Covid Vaccine in Record […]
Bloomberg wins OPC’s Morton Frank Award for “Blood River”
Bloomberg Green has won the Overseas Press Club‘s Morton Frank Award for “Blood River,” an audio series following a four-year quest to solve the murder of an environmental activist who led a protest movement against a proposed hydroelectric dam in Honduras. The Morton Frank Award recognizes the best international business news reporting in TV, video, radio, audio or […]
FT wins Malcolm Forbes award from OPC for Wirecard reporting
The Overseas Press Club announced Tuesday that the Financial Times team behind the years-long investigation into the German fintech group Wirecard are the winners of its Malcolm Forbes award for best international business news reporting. The judges credited the work of investigative reporter Dan McCrum, investigations editor Paul Murphy, and foreign correspondents Sam Jones and Olaf […]
AP reporters win Shadid Award for investigating palm oil industry
Reporters Margie Mason and Robin McDowell of the Associated Press have won the 2021 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics from the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for their investigative series on palm oil labor abuses. Mason and McDowell interviewed more than 130 current and former palm oil workers in Indonesia […]
Motherboard reporters win Sidney award for Amazon union coverage
Lauren Kaori Gurley and Edward Ongweso Jr. of Vice’s Motherboard win the March Sidney Award for their coverage of the historic Amazon union election in Bessemer, Alabama. Workers at the massive Birmingham-area Amazon facility reached out to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Thus began the second, and by far the largest union election […]
Scripps Howard Awards announces finalists in 14 categories
The Scripps Howard Awards will be awarding $160,000 in prize money for work across 14 categories and the coveted Impact Award. Liz Carter, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Foundation, said: “Following a year that challenged journalists to navigate a global pandemic, societal unrest and intense partisanship, it’s more important than ever to recognize […]
Loeb Awards now seeking entries for 2020
UCLA Anderson School of Management and the G. and R. Loeb Foundation invite individual journalists and all print, online and broadcast media outlets to submit entries in 12 competition categories for the 2021 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Nominations will also be accepted for two career achievement honors, the Lifetime Achievement […]
BuzzFeed wins Polk for business journalism, NY Times wins financial
BuzzFeed News reporters Ryan Mac and Craig Silverman have won the George Polk Award in business journalism for a series demonstrating how Facebook exposes the public to disinformation, fraud and violence. They found the $800 billion social media giant was slow to remove extremist content, fired a whistleblower who determined it favored right-wing publishers and […]
