McGraw Center now accepting fellowship applications
The McGraw Center for Business Journalism is now accepting applications for the Summer 2019 McGraw Fellowships for Business Journalism, an initiative of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. The Fellowships, awarded twice a year, provide experienced journalists with the funds and editorial support needed to produce a high-impact […]
Casey Foundation gives fellowships, scholarships for poverty coverage
The Marguerite Casey Foundation announced the winners of journalism awards to promote reliable reporting on poverty and community leadership by families. The Marguerite Casey Foundation Journalism Fellowships and Scholarships support journalism that helps the public and policymakers better understand the experience and progress of families working to alleviate poverty in the U.S. “Journalists play a […]
Journal Sentinel, Fortune win National Headliner Awards
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Rick Barrett has won first place in business news coverage in the 85th National Headliner Awards. The awards are given by The Press Club of Atlantic City. The judges wrote: Hundreds of Wisconsin dairy farms are going under as a glut of milk on the market collapses prices and profits. Rick Barrett’s […]
Bloomberg series on predatory lending wins Fairness in Journalism award
The Bloomberg News investigation “Sign Here to Lose Everything,” a five-part series about predatory lending practices in the merchant cash-advance industry, is winner of the 2018 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism. Reported by Zachary Mider and Zeke Faux, the series revealed how an obscure legal document called a ‘confession of judgment’ used New […]
WSJ wins Pulitzer for national reporting on payoff coverage
The Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday in national reporting for its investigation that uncovered secret payoffs and a botched cover-up that placed Donald Trump in the middle of a criminal scheme to silence a porn star and a Playboy model who allegedly had sex with him. It is the first Pulitzer […]
Will the Wall Street Journal win a Pulitzer this year?
Roy Harris, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, writes for Poynter about The Journal’s chances for a Pulitzer Prize this year given the dearth of wins in the past decade. Harris writes, “Some Journal people blame the Pulitzer shut-out on the calendar-year cycle that seems to guide the judging of some Pulitzer entries. The Dec. […]
WSJ’s Carreyrou to receive Freedom of the Press Award
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press will honor Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou with a Freedom of the Press Award for his reporting on the Theranos scandal. Amelia Nitz and Jenn Topper of the Committee write, “‘There were untold numbers of patients who could’ve been dealing with faulty blood tests that could’ve […]
SABEW Canada names Best in Business finalists
The Canadian chapter of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced the list of finalists for the Fifth Annual Best in Business Awards competition, recognizing outstanding business reporting published in 2018. For this year’s contest, the number of categories expanded to 15, including beat reporting, investigative, commentary, trade article, editorial newsletter and scoop, […]
SABEW names its Best in Business winners for 2018
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announces the results of its 24th annual Best in Business competition, which recognizes outstanding business journalism of 2018. Panels of judges selected 74 winners and 47 honorable mentions from 946 entries. Submissions came from 175 news organizations across all platforms representing the breadth of business journalism, from […]
Bloomberg’s Zelenko wins Breakthrough Award
Laura Zelenko, Bloomberg’s senior executive editor for diversity, talent, standards, and training, is the winner of the Jessica Savitch Breakthrough Award from Ithaca College’s Park School of Communications. She received the award at a presentation Thursday night. Under Zelenko’s leadership, the percentage of women guests brought in as expert commentators on Bloomberg Television has climbed […]
