Frier’s “No Filter” named Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year

“No Filter” by Bloomberg News reporter Sarah Frier has been named the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. The book details what happened after Facebook bought rival picture-based social networking site Instagram in 2012. “This is a culmination of years of reporting on social media companies,” said Frier after the announcement was made. The five […]

Duhigg named Business News Visionary

The 2020-2021 Business News Visionary Awards have recognized Charles Duhigg for his outstanding body of work and influence on the profession. Duhigg currently serves as a writer for The New Yorker and host of “How To!,” a weekly podcast produced for Slate. He is the author of two global bestselling books: “The Power of Habit” […]

ICIJ, Frontline, NY Times consortium win top Barlett & Steele award

An investigative team of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Frontline, Expresso, the New York Times and 33 other media partners won the top prize in the 14th annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Journalism for uncovering a massive corrupt global empire operating in dozens of countries. The Center for Public Integrity and […]

NBC News, STAT, CNN Business win Eppy Awards

The following winners have been named winners in the annual EPPY Awards for digital media: Best Business Reporting on a Website with 1-million unique monthly visitors and over went to “NBC News Reporting Series: The Paycheck Protection Program” by NBC News. The finalists were Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News. Best Business Reporting on a Website […]

Sorkin recognized as business news visionary

Dean Rotbart of 2020 Business News Visionaries recognized Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times and CNBC. Rotbart writes, “Before Andrew even graduated Scarsdale High, he had talked his way into an internship at The New York Times. In 2001, at the ripe old age of 24, he convinced publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. to let […]

HBR’s Ignatius honored as 2020 Business News Visionary

Harvard Business Review editor in chief Adi Ignatius has been named a 2020 Business News Visionary. Dean Rotbart writes, “Coming aboard the Harvard Business Review as editor in chief in 2009, Adi Ignatius faced an unusual challenge: How to make HBR’s content resonate with a new generation of readers without losing the brand identity that made it distinctive and highly […]

Walsh of NY Times wins Welles Prize from Columbia

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia Journalism School announced Thursday that a reporter from The New York Times  won the 2020 Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize. Mary Williams Walsh, ‘83 Knight-Bagehot, a financial reporter at The Times, has been awarded the 2020 Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize for her impressive body […]

Fry wins WERT Prize from Columbia

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia Journalism School announced Wednesday that a reporter from  Fortune won the WERT Prize for Outstanding Global Business Reporting by a female journalist. Erika Fry, a senior writer for Fortune, has won the 2020 WERT Prize for her piece “Epidemic of Fear(link is external),” charting the years-long […]

SABEW Canada names Best in Business award winners

The Canadian chapter of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) announced Wednesday the winners of the 6th Annual Best in Business Awards competition, recognizing outstanding business reporting published in 2019. Audio or Visual Storytelling Gold  Sean Stanleigh, Stephanie Chan, Laura Regehr, Ann Lang and Tara Deschamps (The Globe and Mail), “Industry interrupted” Silver […]

Barber to receive Loeb Lifetime Achievement, Galloni to receive Minard award

The Gerald Loeb Awards have announced the following honorees: The 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is Lionel Barber, former editor of the Financial Times, London. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a journalist whose career exemplifies the consistent, superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of business, financial and economic issues. Barber’s journalism career has spanned more […]