Bloomberg, WSJ and ProPublica win Barlett & Steele Awards

Bloomberg News, The Wall Street Journal and ProPublica won gold, silver and bronze awards, respectively, in the 12th annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Journalism, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced today. Named for the renowned investigative team of Don Barlett and Jim Steele, whose awards include two Pulitzer prizes, […]

PBS and The Weather Channel win business Emmys

PBS and The Weather Channel were the winners in the outstanding business, consumer and economic categories of the 39th annual news and documentary Emmys, which were announced Monday. The winners were: Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic Report The Weather Channel Digital, Telemundo Network and Efran Films  for “The Source: The Human Cost Hidden Within a […]

Bloomberg’s Ossinger to receive SABEW’s President’s Award

Joanna Ossinger, markets editor at Bloomberg News, will be presented with the President’s Award by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing on Oct. 25 during SABEWNYC18, its annual fall conference in New York. Ossinger, a former SABEW board member who served as SABEW president from 2015 to 2016, was chosen for this honor based on her years of service […]

FT/McKinsey name short list for Business Book of the Year

The Financial Times and McKinsey & Co. announced Friday the shortlist for the 2018 Business Book of the Year Award. Now in its 14th year, the award recognizes a work that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues. For this year’s shortlist, eight judges have chosen the six most influential business books […]

Cheddar’s Heath wins SABEW Birger Award

Alex Heath, 25, a senior reporter for Cheddar, is the 2018 winner of the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist contest, honoring journalists younger than 30. Additionally, the judging panel chose to honor two finalists — Dani Burger of Bloomberg News and Robert Hackett of Fortune. Made possible by a $7,500 gift from rbb Communications of Miami, the award commemorates Larry Birger, a former Miami […]

Skift selected to LinkedIn’s top startup list

Skift, a website that covers the travel and restaurant industries, has been named one of LinkedIn’s Top 50 Startups. Founder Rafat Ali writes, “The Top Startups methodology is a combination of the vast repository of LinkedIn data that focused on what job seekers are doing, mixed with its own editorial lens. “We are delighted with the recognition, […]

Bloomberg’s Toulon honored with Ifill Award

The International Women’s Media Foundation announced that this year’s Gwen Ifill Award winner is Karen Toulon of Bloomberg News. Toulon, who is a senior editor on Bloomberg’s talent, diversity, standards and training team and a former New York bureau chief, was honored for developing and promoting the broadcast skills of Bloomberg journalists and researchers around […]

Personal finance reporting winners are announced

The Radio Television Digital News Association and the National Endowment for Financial Education have announced the winners of the 2018 RTDNA/NEFE Award for Personal Finance Reporting. The winners are: The radio winner is Jill Schlesinger, CBS News business analyst, CBS News Radio Network for Jill on Money. Schlesinger hosts a radio call-in program offering financial advice. She offers […]

Reuters-NABJ scholarship winners named

Reuters announced that the winners of two Reuters-National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) scholarships are Arriana McLymore and Akintunde Ahmad for graduate journalism programs at New York University and Columbia University, respectively. Each student will receive a value of more than $40,000 in tuition and credits for the 2018-2019 academic year funded by Reuters and […]

WSJ, Reuters and NerdWallet among National Press Club award winners

The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and NerdWallet are among the business and financial journalism outlets that won awards in the 2018 National Press Club contest. The Journal won the breaking news prize for its coverage of the Amazon/Whole Foods merger. The Reuters investigative series, “Legacy of Lead,” won in the consumer journalism/newspapers category for its in-depth reporting […]