The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) is pleased to announce the 136 recipients of its 31st annual Best in Business Awards, honoring excellence in business journalism from 2025.
This year’s contest attracted 988 entries from 150 news organizations, ranging from international, national and regional news outlets to specialized business publications. The awards are made possible by the 140 judges who volunteered their time to support excellence in business journalism—a sincere thank you to all the judges.
“The Best in Business Awards contest yet again is able to showcase stellar, insightful and impactful content from a wide range of publications,” said Joanna Ossinger, co-chair of the Best in Business Awards and markets editor at Bloomberg News. “We’re proud to honor this year’s winners, which came from an incredibly competitive field and show just how vibrant business journalism remains despite the many challenges and changes it faces today.”
Individual journalists were recognized for their exceptional coverage in SABEW’s Best Range of Work Award, where their submissions crossed a broad spectrum of content platforms and categories. The winners are Hannah Natanson from The Washington Post, Jessica Fu from The Seattle Times, and Dustin Walsh from Crain’s Detroit Business.
Other highlights of the #SABEWBIB include:
- The top three winners capturing the most overall awards: Bloomberg (15 total, seven winners and eight honorable mentions); The New York Times (nine total, three winners and six honorable mentions); The Wall Street Journal (eight total, three winners and five honorable mentions).
- General Excellence award winners: The New York Times (large category), CNBC (medium category) and STAT (small category).
- Small-sized newsrooms that won in multiple categories: Capital & Main with five wins and STAT with three wins.
- Medium-sized newsrooms that won in multiple categories: CNBC with four wins; The Guardian with three wins; and KFF Health News, Nikkei Asia, and The Miami Herald, each with two wins.
- Student reporters at the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland and Arizona State University won the Student Media Outlet award for “Off the Rails.”
- Quinn Waller, a student at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and a reporting fellow at The Real Deal, won in the Stories for Professional News Organizations category for “Rent-stabilized losses have hit NYC pension funds. Will the city finally care?”
“The world has become an even tougher place for news outlets to thrive or even survive, but you wouldn’t know it from the quality and breadth of the entries in this year’s SABEW Best in Business Awards,” said Scott Wenger, Best in Business Awards co-chair and senior economics editor at the World Bank. “We consistently found exceptional work from both small organizations and the largest. Often overcoming roadblocks to their coverage, they revealed unsavory business arrangements and investment decisions that harmed communities and plainly explained the uneven impact of major government and corporate policy decisions.”
View the complete list of 2025 BIB honorees, and view the judges’ comments for each entry.
Awardees will be celebrated during a reception at SABEW’s annual conference, #SABEW26, May 7-9, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Philadelphia Center City.
