Reuters’ Gajilian receives NLGJA Leadership Award

The Association of LGBTQ Journalists (NLGJA) announced that Reuters deputy managing editor for Operations Arlyn Gajilan is the recipient of the 2019 NLGJA Leadership Award. The award recognizes individuals who have made a positive impact on their newsrooms by increasing diversity and improving news coverage of the LGBTQ community. “Arlyn has been a champion of […]

ACBJ’s Howard named to NABJ Hall of Fame

American City Business Journals’ Garry Howard has been named to the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. In the early 1980s, Howard began his journalism career at the Trenton Times as a sports reporter but, with several promotions, would move quickly into the sports news leadership ranks becoming executive sports editor at the Milwaukee Journal […]

Biz publication group names annual contest winners

The Alliance of Area Business Publishers presented 116 Editorial Excellence awards to newspaper and magazine business periodicals this past weekend at the closing celebration of its three-day annual Summer Conference in Atlanta. With 511 entries from 41 publications in the U.S., Canada and Australia, the competitive field was both impressive and diverse. As in past […]

National real estate journalism contest winners announced

The National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) announced the winners of its 69th Annual Journalism Awards, recognizing excellence in reporting, writing and editing stories about residential and commercial real estate. Prashant Gopal of Bloomberg News received NAREE’s Platinum Award for Best Individual Entry. The President’s Gold Award for Best Freelance Collection went to Jon […]

2019 Loeb winners are announced

Winners of 12 competition categories of the 2019 Gerald Loeb Awards were named at a banquet in New York . The following is a list of the 2019 Loeb Award recipients. Audio Winner “Medicaid, Under the Influence” by Liz Essley White, Joe Yerardi and Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak – The Center for Public Integrity and NPR Beat Reporting Winner […]

Girion of Reuters wins inaugural WERT Prize

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowships in Economics and Business at Columbia University named Lisa Girion of Reuters as the inaugural recipient of the WERT Prize, dedicated to honoring excellence in business reporting and writing by a woman journalist. Girion’s winning work “Powder Keg” is a deeply reported investigation into Johnson and Johnson’s extensive knowledge of the existence […]

Carpenter wins Excellence in Business reporting award from NLGJA

Julia Carpenter has won this year’s “Excellence in Business Coverage” award from NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. Her story was written while she worked at CNN Money and was titled “When work puts you back in the closet.” Carpenter is now a reporter at The Wall Street Journal. NLGJA’s Excellence in Journalism Awards were established […]

Crain’s Chicago charging to be considered for “40 under 40”

Crain’s Chicago Business charges for business people to be considered for its annual “40 under 40” list, reports Robert Feder. Feder writes, “‘As is standard for many respected award programs that require significant resources to produce, such as the Chicago Headline Club’s Lisagor Awards and others, there is an entry fee for Crain’s ‘40 Under […]

Birger young business journalist contest now accepting entries

Entries are being accepted for the sixth annual Society for Advancing Business Editor and Reporting award honoring a top young business journalist. The winner will receive $1,500 plus expenses for a trip to New York where the award will be presented during SABEW’s annual fall conference. Journalists 29 years old and younger during 2018 are […]

NY Times’ Carter wins Nash Award

New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet and business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following announcement on Monday: We are pleased to announce that Adrienne Carter is this year’s recipient of the Nathaniel Nash Award for excellence in business and economics journalism. Adrienne joined The New York Times in 2010. She has been deputy Business editor since 2017, […]