The importance of investigative business reporting

Michele Matassa Flores, executive editor of The Seattle Times, writes about aerospace reporter Dominic Gates and his reporting, which won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this month for covering the Boeing 737 MAX problems. Flores writes, “Gates spent weeks after the first 737 MAX crash interviewing engineers from Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) who, […]

Washington Post’s Shih honored with Osborn Elliott Journalism award

Gerry Shih, China correspondent at The Washington Post, has won the 2020 Osborn Elliott Award for Excellence in Journalism on Asia for his wide-ranging and penetrating coverage of China, reports The Post. His stories were reported over the course of 2019 on a wide range of topics. He also covered stories which included damage caused […]

WSJ wins three Human Rights Press Awards

The Wall Street Journal has won three categories in the 24th Human Rights Press Awards announced Wednesday. Journal reporters Natasha Khan, Joyu Wang, John Lyons, Chun Han Wong, Wenxin Fan, Mike Bird, Lucy Craymer, Jing Yang and Eva Dou won in the breaking news category for their coverage of the Hong Kong protests. Khan, Fan […]

Pulitzer winner Gates discusses his Boeing coverage

Dominic Gates is the aerospace reporter at the Seattle Times and is the lead reporter on the paper’s coverage of the 737 Max crisis, which on Monday won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. The Pulitzer committee stated that the stories “exposed design flaws in the Boeing 737 MAX that led to two deadly crashes […]

Seattle Times wins Pulitzer for Boeing coverage

A team of Seattle Times reporters won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on Monday for its coverage of Boeing Co. and the 737 Max crisis. The Times staffers mentioned included Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Lewis Kamb and Mike Baker. The judges wrote that the coverage merited the award “for groundbreaking stories that exposed design […]

WERT Prize extends deadline to May 31

Nominations for the WERT Prize, honoring excellence in business journalism by a woman for work that fosters a greater understanding of global business, have been extended to May 31. The prize is presented by the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia’s Journalism School in partnership with the Women’s Economic Round Table (WERT). […]

WSJ, “Frontline” win Bingham Prize for Indian health service coverage

Matt Murray, editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement: Dear All, An enthusiastic, if virtual, round of applause is due to our colleagues who yesterday won the 2019 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism, awarded by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, for the “Forsaken by the Indian Health Service” […]

WSJ wins National Press Foundation award for PG&E coverage

Three Wall Street Journal reporters have won the Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy and Environment Writing from the National Press Foundation for three articles on “How PG&E Burned California” The winners are Katherine Blunt, Russell Gold and Rebecca Smith, who cover energy and environment for the newspaper. The Stokes Award carries a $2,500 […]

FT/McKinsey launch its 16th best business book competition

The Financial Times and McKinsey launched its 16th edition for the best business book of the year in partnership for Business Book of the Year Award, reports the publication. In addition, this year’s contestants will see two new faces on the panel of judges including: Roula Khalaf, the FT’s editor; Raju Narisetti, global publishing director […]

SABEW Canada names Best in Business finalists

The Canadian chapter of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) is excited to (belatedly) announce the list of finalists for the 6th Annual Best in Business Awards competition, recognizing outstanding business reporting published and produced in Canada in 2019. This year’s finalists covered a wide range of stories, including a rags-to-riches-to-rags tale […]