The Wall Street Journal was named the winner in business and economics reporting category in the Scripps Howard Foundation’s National Journalism Awards.
The Journal receives $10,000 and the William Brewster Styles award for its series “Debt Bomb,” which explained and analyzed the housing crisis for readers, telling the mortgage-market crash story from all sides.Â
Finalists in the category were David Evans and Richard Tomlinson of Bloomberg News, and Jason Method of the Asbury Park Press for “Home Roulette: Gambling with your house.”
Read all of the winners here.
