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SABEW Best in Business competition now accepting entries

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing has been honoring outstanding work for the past 27 years with the Best in Business Awards.

Submit your entry before the early-bird deadline of Jan. 5, 2023, and save $20 per entry. The final deadline for all entries is Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023.

Early-Bird Entry Fees:
• $79 for Story Type and Story Topic categories, as well as Best Range of Work;
• $125 for General Excellence categories;
• $64 for Freelancers (use promo code “Freelancer” when you pay for your entries on the competition website); and
• $30 for Students.
Because this competition is for members only, please verify your membership before submitting your entry. Students don’t need to be members of SABEW to submit an entry. Non-member students who submit an entry will receive a free one-year student membership (a $25 savings).

Updated categories:
1. Energy/Natural Resources has been changed to Energy/Sustainability/Climate Change.
2. Best Range of Work will be separated into three subcategories dependent on the size of the journalist’s newsroom.
3. Podcast/Audio will be separated into three subcategories dependent on the size of the organization’s newsroom.

Visit SABEW’s Best in Business page for categories and guidelines. Contact Tess McLaughlin at tmclaughlin@sabew.org with any questions.

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.

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