AP wins Overseas Press Club award for business reporting
The Associated Press team that uncovered slaves being used to catch fish sold in U.S. grocery stores and restaurants has won the Overseas Press Club award for business journalism. The Malcolm Forbes Award honors the best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or online. Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Esther Htusan from […]
NYSSCPA announces financial journalism award winners
The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants announced the winners of its 2016 Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards. The award recognizes reporters from the national and local press whose work was published, posted or broadcast in 2016 and contributed to a better and balanced understanding of business or financial topics. Winners were selected by […]
SABEW Canada names Best in Business winners
The Canadian branch of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers announced Thursday the winners of the second annual Best in Business Canada competition. More than 100 business journalists attended its awards show held at Valdez restaurant in Toronto Wednesday night, surpassing the attendance last year. This year’s event featured a new category — […]
Hertzberg of WSJ, Bloomberg to receive Bell Award
The New York Financial Writers’ Association has named Dan Hertzberg as the winner of the 2015 Elliott V. Bell Award for his significant contribution to the world of financial journalism during his career. Hertzberg, a 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner while at The Wall Street Journal, is the 40th recipient of the Bell Award, named after the NYFWA’s […]
AP wins Pulitzer for fish slavery series
A team of Associated Press reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service based on its international investigation of the fishing industry in Southeast Asia that freed more than 2,000 slaves and traced the seafood they caught to supermarkets and pet food providers across the United States. The reporting by Esther Htusan, Margie Mason, Robin […]
Quartz judged SND World’s Best
Financial news site Quartz has been judged a winner of the Society of News Design’s World’s Best award. The judges wrote, “Quartz exemplifies what a medium-sized news organization can achieve. The low-key ambition here is admirable and creates a frictionless experience. “The content and delivery inside this narrow business vertical are superb — and the […]
McGraw Center seeks fellowship applications
Spring 2016 applications are now open for the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, an initiative of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. The McGraw Center for Business Journalism provides accomplished journalists with the funds needed to report in-depth stories on critical issues related to U.S. business and the economy. McGraw Fellowships are awarded twice a year, in spring and fall. The upcoming […]
IRE Medals given to two works in business journalism
Investigative Reporters and Editors has bestowed the IRE Medal, its highest honor, to two works of business journalism. The first went to “Seafood from Slaves” from Associated Press reporters Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza and Esther Htusan. View this story online The judges noted, “AP reporters discovered an island home to thousands of enslaved […]
SABEW Canada announces Best in Business finalists
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers Canada announced Tuesday the list of nominees for its second Canadian Best in Business competition, which recognizes outstanding business reporting published or broadcast in 2015. This year’s contest had a record number of entries, and publications from across Canada submitted their work. Journalists from places such as the […]
Deadline Club names business reporting award finalists
The Deadline Club, the largest chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, announced the finalists in the 2016 Annual Awards Contest, representing excellence in journalism from newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the internet. There were more than 90 judges and a record 623 entries. Here are the finalists in the business journalism categories: Business Feature […]
