Reuters wins OPC award for business news coverage

Reuters has won the Malcolm Forbes and Morton Frank Award, which recognizes the best international business reporting in any medium, from the Overseas Press Club.

The award went to “Fentanyl Express.”

The judges wrote: “This ambitious exploration of the global supply chain for fentanyl exposed the vulnerabilities of the United States’ efforts to police imports of Chinese chemicals that Mexican cartels obtain to make the drug. Surprisingly, the reporting showed that the U.S. mail system is so exploitable that the chemicals often flow from China to the U.S. in small packages before being forwarded to Mexico for final production as pills.”

The awards will be presented at the annual OPC awards dinner in New York on April 17. Lynsey Addario, an American photojournalist for more than two decades, will receive the club’s President’s Award for her outstanding coverage of conflict, humanitarian crises and women’s issues around the Middle East and Africa.

See all of the winners here.

Chris Roush

Chris 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.