CUNY’s McGraw Center seeks fellowship applicants
The McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism offers a fellowship program to support in-depth coverage of business and the global economy. The fellowship provides editorial and financial support to journalists who need the time and resources to tackle complex, time-consuming stories. The program is accepting applications for […]
BuzzFeed’s Alden wins SABEW’s Birger award
William Alden, 27, a San Francisco-based business reporter for BuzzFeed News covering the technology industry, is the 2016 winner of the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist prize, honoring journalists younger than 30. He will receive the award and a $1,500 honorarium Oct. 7 at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ New York Fall […]
Business Book of the Year finalists named
Six heavyweight books that tackle head-on the world’s critical economic and management challenges — from the U.S. productivity gap to persistent gender imbalances — feature on the shortlist for 2016 business book of the year. Andrew Hill of the Financial Times writes, “The finalists for the £30,000 prize include The Rise and Fall of American […]
Inside Climate News wins Oakes Award for Exxon coverage
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced Wednesday that Inside Climate News has won the 2016 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism for its revelatory investigative series “Exxon: The Road Not Taken.” Reporters Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer and Lisa Song will be honored for the breakthrough investigation that exposed Exxon’s decades-long […]
McGraw Center awards grants for biz reporting projects
Four veteran journalists have won grants of up to $15,000 as recipients of the fourth round of the McGraw Fellowships for Business Journalism. Two of the winning projects will explore challenges facing the modern pharmaceutical industry: one centers on the inadequate regulation of generic drugs produced around the globe, while the other examines the difficulty of stemming long-standing problems in […]
Investigating business and finance and the Pulitzer Prizes
Alicia Shepard of Nieman Reports writes about how many Pulitzer Prize-winning stories focus on corporations and financial interests even those there’s no business reporting category. Shepard writes, “The Pulitzers have been awarded to reporters covering business as far back as 1921 when The Boston Post won the Public Service award for exposing Charles Ponzi’s moneymaking schemes […]
Biz journalist Harris receives ASBPE Lifetime Achievement Award
Former Wall Street Journal reporter and editor Roy J. Harris Jr., who also worked at CFO magazine, has been named the 2016 winner of the American Society of Business Publication Editors Lifetime Achievement Award. Harris will receive the honor at the 2016 Azbee Awards of Excellence banquet July 21 in St. Petersburg, Fla. He got his start as a Los […]
Why Amy Stevens of Reuters is such a great editor
Amy Stevens of Reuters received the Minard Award for editing at the Gerald Loeb Awards ceremony in New York on Tuesday. Here are the opening remarks by Reuters editor in chief Steve Adler about Stevens: Amy Stevens could have been a high-priced lawyer. Or – having won the coveted Wallace Prize for creative writing at […]
Wall Street Journal racks up at Loeb award dinner
The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and National Public Radio were among the winners of Gerald Loeb Awards, considered the top awards in business journalism, on Tuesday evening. The Journal won five awards, while the Times won two. NPR also won two. The Journal’s David Benoit, Jacob Bunge, Dana Cimilluca, Dana Mattioli and Dennis K. […]
Business publications name annual award winners
The Alliance of Area Business Publishers presented 112 Editorial Excellence awards to newspaper and magazine business periodicals this weekend during its three-day annual Summer Conference in Des Moines. The divisions were revised this year to include fewer Magazine/Newspaper only categories and put an emphasis on core journalism categories to showcase more of the journalistic excellence. […]
