Oregonian’s Rogoway wins National Headliner Award for biz coverage

Mike Rogoway

Mike Rogoway of The Oregonian in Portland has won the National Headliner Award for best business news coverage or commentary for “The Data Center Next Door.”

The judges wrote, “In ‘The Data Center Next Door,’ reporter Mike Rogoway and The Oregonian look at what happens when the world’s biggest and richest companies come to rural Oregon to build their data centers. Rogoway used his expert technology industry knowledge and 15 years of reporting on data centers in rural Oregon to connect the dots and provide a holistic view of the economic, political and environmental impact of these centers. The Oregonian delivered an important service for its readers toward understanding an important business trend that shows no sign of slowing.”

Second place went to “Blood and Money” by Andrew Ford of The Arizona Republic. Third place went to “Mortgage Inequality” by Bloomberg staff.

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.