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SABEW Canada Best in Business competition is now open

The year 2024 marks the 11th Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Canada Best in Business Awards contest. This contest covers work published, broadcast and posted in the 2024 calendar year. The contest opens February 24, and closes on March 7, 5 p.m. ET.

View last year’s Canada Best in Business Honorees.

Enter the Competition

Membership
Before you enter the contest, verify your membership on the SABEW website. The Best in Business competition is open to all SABEW members whose membership is current through June 1, 2025. If you have questions about the contest or membership, please email Tess McLaughlin, tmclaughlin@sabew.org.

Entry Fees (in USD)
$45 for all categories
$30 for freelancer and small media (with teams of under four staff members). Use the promo code Freelancer on the payment page. 

Payment: Unless prior arrangements are made with SABEW, payment must be made by VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express through the secure Canada BIB contest system. Payment must be received for an entry to be judged. Please note: When submitting multiple entries, the contest system does allow you to leave payment until all entries have been submitted.

Deadline: The Canada Best in Business contest deadline is Friday, March 7, at 5 p.m. ET.

Eligibility: Best in Business Canada is open to all Canadian members of SABEW whose membership is in good standing. For entries with more than one byline, one person must be a SABEW member in good standing. At least half of the journalists who contributed to each submission must be Canadian.

Good standing means SABEW received your membership dues, and your membership is current through June 1, 2025. Send membership questions to Tess McLaughlin, tmclaughlin@sabew.org.

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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