Salazar wins Weigold Prize from CUNY

Cherry Salazar

Cherry Salazar is the recipient of the Frederic Wiegold Prize for Business Journalism from the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

An investigative reporter from Manila, Salazar is currently a data journalist at Big Local News at Stanford University, where she processes and analyzes data to help newsrooms and local reporters produce impactful reporting.

Her previous reporting on public contracts and conflicts of interest led her to Newmark J-School to gain deeper insights into markets and the economy.

The Frederic Wiegold Prize honors exceptional talent in business reporting. A ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 30 as part of the school’s 20th anniversary celebration.

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.