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STAT News, Bloomberg among the EPPY Award winners

The 2025 EPPY Awards, celebrating the best in digital journalism and innovation, spotlight excellence from newsrooms large and small.

This year’s winners showcase how technology, collaboration, and storytelling continue to evolve across the media landscape — from bold investigative work to cutting-edge audience engagement.

Here are the business-related winners:

Best Business/ Finance Website
(With fewer than 1 million monthly unique visitors)

 Winner:
STAT 

Best Investigative/ Enterprise Feature
(With 1 million or more monthly unique visitors)

Winner:
Bloomberg Businessweek
“Unsafe Online: Families Are Going After Snapchat for the Teen Fentanyl Crisis”

Best Business Reporting
(With 1 million or more monthly unique visitors)

Winner:
Bloomberg News
“Iran’s Oil Kingpin”

2nd Place:
Fortune
“Nike is broken. Can Elliott Hill fix it?”

Best Business Reporting
(With fewer than 1 million monthly unique visitors)

Winner:
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (icij.org)
“Caspian Cabals”

2nd Place:
A Collaborative Investigation by OCCRP, Swedish Television (SVT), and 30 Other Media Partners
“Scam Empire” 

3rd Place:
The Examination, Salud con lupa, La Bot, Initium Media, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, New Arab
“Nicotine Networks”

Best Business/ Finance Column
(With fewer than 1 million monthly unique visitors)

Winner:
STAT Adam Feuerstein
“Adam Feuerstein: Truth-teller on the Biotech Industry”

2nd Place:
Working Strategies, Amy Lindgren
“Working Strategies” 

Best Use of Data Transparency
(With 1 million or more monthly unique visitors)

Winner:
Bloomberg News
“Why Europe Is Unprepared to Defend Itself”

Best Use of Data Transparency
(With fewer than 1 million monthly unique visitors)

Winner:
STAT
“STAT’s revelatory effort to monitor CDC data in real time”

All of the winners are 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.

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