The finalists have been selected from more than 500 entries to the Deadline Club’s 2026 Awards contest, listed in alphabetical order within each of the 36 categories.
Winners will be announced and trophies given out at the Deadline Club’s annual Awards Dinner on Thursday, May 14 at the Harvard Club.
Here are the finalists in the business journalism categories:
BUSINESS FEATURE
- Bloomberg “The Mysterious Billionaire Behind the World’s Most Popular Vapes” Timothy McLaughlin
- The Star-Ledger/NJ.com (NJ Advance Media) “Everything’s Gone” Karin Price Mueller
- Wired Magazine “The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin” Andy Greenberg
BUSINESS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
- Bloomberg Businessweek “The Risky Movement to Make America Nuclear Again” Michael Riley
- Business Insider “The True Cost of Data Centers” Business Insider Staff
- Consumer Reports “Consumer Reports – Reporting – Investigating Pricing at Nation’s Largest Grocers” Derek Kravitz, Michael Hudson, Ted Ross, Kate Wells, Eric Gardner
See all of the finalists here.
