NY Times honored with 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism Award
The New York Times won the 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors for efforts tracking the pandemic in the United States. The award honors the year’s best work using social research and data journalism methods. The first-place award also honors the Times’s project to track U.S. virus cases since the beginning […]
Bloomberg, Chicago Sun-Times win NABJ awards for business coverage
The National Association of Business Journalists named the following winners in its Salute to Excellence awards on Saturday: Magazine – Under 1 Million – Business “Wealthy Black Executives Take on Racial Inequality,” by Jordyn Holman of Bloomberg News. Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Business “Why Tearing Down Englewood to Save it Hasn’t Worked,” by Manny […]
Washington Post wins award for trade reporting
David J. Lynch, Carol Leonnig, Josh Dawsey and Jeff Stein of The Washington Post have won the 2020 Hinrich Foundation Award for Distinguished Reporting on Trade for stories that brought to light the complexities of doing business in China in 2020. Their stories shed light on how the coronavirus upended global supply chains as the […]
Washington Post’s Singletary wins Meyer Award
Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary has been named one of the winners of the newspaper’s Eugene Meyer Award. Singletary is a columnist who joined The Post over 28 years ago. She started her “Color of Money” column in 1997 and is, to our knowledge, the only Black female personal finance columnist for a major American […]
AP reporters win award for cosmetics working conditions investigation
The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced that Margie Mason and Robin McDowell of the Associated Press won the December Sidney Award for “Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brands,” which exposes the horrific working conditions endured by millions of women who work on plantations in Southeast Asia, producing the palm oil that finds […]
NAREE names winners in real estate journalism competition
The National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) today announced the winners of its 70th Annual Journalism Awards, recognizing excellence in reporting, writing and editing stories about residential and commercial real estate at is first-ever virtual real estate journalism conference. Konrad Putzier, Wall Street Journal, received NAREE’s Platinum Award for Best Individual Entry. The Kenneth […]
FT’s McCrum named British Journalist of the Year for Wirecard coverage
Financial Times reporter Dan McCrum has been named British Journalist of the Year by the Press Gazette for his coverage that lead to the downfall of German company Wirecard. The judges wrote, “This was brave financial journalism carried out by a dogged journalist and backed with huge commitment by the financial times. Dan McCrum faced down […]
SABEW’s Best in Business contest is now accepting entries
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing is now accepting entries for its 25th Best in Business competition. Last year, 183 news organizations across all platforms participated. There are two new categories this year — data journalism and the business of sports. Three things to know about the 2020 Best in Business contest: It is […]
FT’s McCrum wins Schmidt Prize for Wirecard coverage
Dan McCrum, investigative reporter at the Financial Times, has won the coveted Helmut Schmidt Journalism Prize in Germany for his work uncovering one of the biggest accounting frauds in European corporate history. This is the first time the prize has gone to a business journalist outside Germany. The FT’s investigation into the technology company Wirecard sent ripples through […]
Frier’s “No Filter” named Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year
“No Filter” by Bloomberg News reporter Sarah Frier has been named the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. The book details what happened after Facebook bought rival picture-based social networking site Instagram in 2012. “This is a culmination of years of reporting on social media companies,” said Frier after the announcement was made. The five […]
