The finalists that were selected from the entries to the Deadline Club’s 2023 Awards Contest in the business journalism categories are listed below.
Winners will be announced at the Club’s annual Awards Dinner on Thursday, May 18, at the Harvard Club.
Business Feature
- Bustle “Last Girlboss Standing” Courtney Rubin, Kat Stoeffel, Charlotte Owen
- Fortune “Private equity is the biggest player in a booming autism-therapy industry. Some therapists say the ‘money grab’ is hurting the quality of care” Erika Fry
- Wired magazine “The Crypto Trap: Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site” Andy Greenberg
Business Investigative Reporting
- NBC News “The Pentagon knows contractors for overseas bases have engaged extensively in trafficking workers despite ‘zero tolerance.’ The punishment: more contracts.” Andrew Lehren, Molly Boigon, Anna Schecter, Katie McQue, Courtney Kube
- Reuters “Going for Broke” Dan Levine, Mike Spector, Benjamin Lesser, Kristina Cooke, Disha Raychaudhuri
- The Wall Street Journal “Uncontrolled Substances” Rolfe Winkler, Khadeeja Safdar, Andrea Fuller
See all of the finalists here.
Chris RoushChris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.