FT wins Overseas Press Club award for biz reporting

The Financial Times won the Overseas Press Club’s Malcolm Forbes and Morton Frank Award for best international business news reporting.

Miles Johnson won for “Wagner Inc: The Criminal Empire of Yevgeny Prigozhin.”

The judges wrote, “Miles Johnson’s reporting exposed how Western lawyers and other professionals helped the Russian criminal known as ‘Putin’s chef’ evade international sanctions. Johnson also illuminated how Prigozhin’s forces pillaged Africa and Ukraine, looting, raping, torturing, committing arson and murdering many, including journalists.”

The awards will be presented at the annual OPC awards dinner in New York on April 25, with David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, receiving the club’s President’s Award for his inspired contribution to international journalism over three decades.

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.