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WERT Global Prize for business journalism ups award to $4,500

In honor of the 45th anniversary of the Women’s Economic Round Table, we are excited to announce that the 2023 recipient of the WERT Global Prize will receive $4,500, up from the usual $2,000 award. Thanks to the Muriel F. Siebert Foundation for its generous donation to celebrate WERT’s anniversary and business journalism.

The Women’s Economic Round Table was founded in 1978 by Dr. Amelia Augustus and Maria Rolfe. The WERT Global Prize was established in 2018 with funding by a bequest from WERT and has received support from the Siebert Foundation and the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

The 2023 WERT Global Prize winner will be announced in October.

Materials Needed to Enter

  • One to five pieces of business reporting uploaded as PDFs or as links.
  • Transcripts for radio and video entries.
  • A brief cover letter that describes why you are submitting the work and that includes a short biography of the nominee.
  • A $50 non-refundable entry fee.

Please keep in mind:

  • A single article or a series of articles may be submitted. A series must be designated as such by the news organization when it is published. A regular column may also be submitted as a series.
  • If submitting a series, up to five articles can be included.
  • Submissions must be published in English. Submissions by non-U.S. journalists are accepted.
  • Self-nominations are accepted.
  • Books, films and self-published works are not eligible.
  • All entries must have appeared between Jan. 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.

To apply, go 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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