AP adds three to its leadership team
Associated Press executive editor Julie Pace sent out the following memo to the staff: In September, we announced a new leadership structure for News, including new positions overseeing global news gathering, global news production and global beats coverage. The goal of this structure is to increase our competitiveness across formats, particularly on breaking news; modernize our production […]
Washington Post and FT both win three Loeb Awards
The Washington Post and the Financial Times both won three Gerald Loeb Awards, considered the highest awards in business journalism, announced Thursday at a dinner in New York. Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post won the feature writing category for “The Recession’s Reach in Florida.” The Post and The Wall Street Journal tied in the beat […]
AP announces new leadership team in news
AP executive editor Julie Pace sent out the following on Wednesday: “Thank you so much for your ideas, insights and feedback during my first weeks as executive editor. Our conversations have reaffirmed what a special place AP is and how many great opportunities are ahead for us. I’m excited today to announce the first steps […]
Longtime AP biz journalist Rosenberg retires from news service
Joyce Rosenberg, who has been on the business news desk of the Associated Press for the past 35 years, has retired from the news service. Her last day was July 9. Rosenberg had been writing Small Talk, the AP’s widely published weekly column covering finance, tax, employment, marketing and management, since 1999. She was also […]
Bloomberg BusinessWeek, AP win Deadline Club awards for business reporting
A story in Bloomberg Businessweek and another by the Associated Press and “Frontline” have won the business news categories for the annual Deadline Club awards. In the business feature category, the winner was Christopher Cannon and Josh Eidelson of Bloomberg Businessweek for “How the American Worker Got Fleeced.” In the business investigative reporting category, the […]
AP investigation of palm oil industry wins Bingham Prize
“Fruits of Labor,” an exhaustive two-year investigation into widespread abuses in the palm oil industry by Associated Press reporters Margie Mason and Robin McDowell, is the winner of the 2020 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. Presented annually by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, the award includes a $20,000 cash prize. Mason […]
AP, WSJ, BusinessWeek, Fortune among Deadline Club Award finalists
The New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has named the finalists for its Deadline Club Awards. The business journalism category finalists are: Business Feature Christopher Cannon and Josh Eidelson, Bloomberg Businessweek, “How the American Worker Got Fleeced” Jared S. Hopkins, The Wall Street Journal, “How Pfizer Delivered a Covid Vaccine in Record […]
AP reporters win Shadid Award for investigating palm oil industry
Reporters Margie Mason and Robin McDowell of the Associated Press have won the 2021 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics from the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for their investigative series on palm oil labor abuses. Mason and McDowell interviewed more than 130 current and former palm oil workers in Indonesia […]
AP econ reporter Boak moving to White House team
Associated Press economics reporter Josh Boak is moving to the news service’s White House team. He will be focused on President-elect Joe Biden’s handling of the economy, both the policies his administration is championing and the impact of those policies on Americans. Boak has been an economics reporter for the AP since November 2013. He previously was […]
AP reporters win award for cosmetics working conditions investigation
The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced that Margie Mason and Robin McDowell of the Associated Press won the December Sidney Award for “Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brands,” which exposes the horrific working conditions endured by millions of women who work on plantations in Southeast Asia, producing the palm oil that finds […]
