WSJ wins Pulitzer for national reporting on payoff coverage
The Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday in national reporting for its investigation that uncovered secret payoffs and a botched cover-up that placed Donald Trump in the middle of a criminal scheme to silence a porn star and a Playboy model who allegedly had sex with him. It is the first Pulitzer […]
Will the Wall Street Journal win a Pulitzer this year?
Roy Harris, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, writes for Poynter about The Journal’s chances for a Pulitzer Prize this year given the dearth of wins in the past decade. Harris writes, “Some Journal people blame the Pulitzer shut-out on the calendar-year cycle that seems to guide the judging of some Pulitzer entries. The Dec. […]
WSJ’s Carreyrou to receive Freedom of the Press Award
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press will honor Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou with a Freedom of the Press Award for his reporting on the Theranos scandal. Amelia Nitz and Jenn Topper of the Committee write, “‘There were untold numbers of patients who could’ve been dealing with faulty blood tests that could’ve […]
SABEW Canada names Best in Business finalists
The Canadian chapter of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced the list of finalists for the Fifth Annual Best in Business Awards competition, recognizing outstanding business reporting published in 2018. For this year’s contest, the number of categories expanded to 15, including beat reporting, investigative, commentary, trade article, editorial newsletter and scoop, […]
SABEW names its Best in Business winners for 2018
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announces the results of its 24th annual Best in Business competition, which recognizes outstanding business journalism of 2018. Panels of judges selected 74 winners and 47 honorable mentions from 946 entries. Submissions came from 175 news organizations across all platforms representing the breadth of business journalism, from […]
Bloomberg’s Zelenko wins Breakthrough Award
Laura Zelenko, Bloomberg’s senior executive editor for diversity, talent, standards, and training, is the winner of the Jessica Savitch Breakthrough Award from Ithaca College’s Park School of Communications. She received the award at a presentation Thursday night. Under Zelenko’s leadership, the percentage of women guests brought in as expert commentators on Bloomberg Television has climbed […]
NY Times wins OPC award for business reporting
The New York Times has won the Overseas Press Club award for international reporting, known as the Malcolm Forbes and Morton Frank Award. Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe and the Times staff won for “The Enablers.” The judges wrote, “The New York Times exposed how the brightest minds in the West are linked to some of […]
ICIJ/NBC News/AP wins Scripps Howard business and financial reporting award
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the NBC News Investigative Unit, the Associated Press and more than 50 media partners have won the business and financial reporting category of the 2018 Scripps Howard Awards. Their series “Implant Files” was an investigation into the medical devices and implants industry and its related injuries and deaths. The […]
Three biz journalists win McGraw fellowships
Three veteran journalists have been named the latest recipients of the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism. Each of the winning projects will receive a grant of up to $15,000. The new McGraw Fellows will explore subjects ranging from the fight over water rights in California and the impact of industrial lead pollution on residents of […]
New York Times, Netflix win Polk Awards
The New York Times won two George Polk Awards for business-related stories while Netflix won a Polk Award for a documentary on medical devices. The Polk Award for Medical Reporting went Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy for “The Bleeding Edge,” a Netflix documentary on risks from under-regulated medical devices. The Polk Award for […]
