Wired, NBC, Washington Post win Deadline Club awards in biz journalism

Here are the winners of the Deadline Club’s business journalism awards:

Business Feature

Andy Greenberg, “The Crypto Trap: Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site” Wired Magazine

Unfolding like a thriller, Andy Greenberg’s crackling writing kept us hooked from the first sentence to the last, taking us along on a law enforcement investigation that used new bitcoin tracing technology to hunt down the creator and customers of a dark website who bought and sold thousands of videos of child sexual abuse and wrongly believed they were operating anonymously.

Business Investigative Reporting

Andrew Lehren, Molly Boigon, Anna Schecter, Katie McQue, Courtney Kube “The Pentagon knows contractors for overseas bases have engaged extensively in trafficking workers despite ‘zero tolerance.’ The punishment: more contracts.” NBC News, ICIJ, ARIJ and The Washington Post

Reporters for NBC, The Washington Post and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists painstakingly documented labor abuses on U.S. military bases abroad, overcoming a series of reporting obstacles to shed an important light on a little-known and shocking practice that others had turned a blind eye to. Their determination to tell the story in the face of significant hurdles and the details of the abuses the workers endured, which one source called “modern day slavery,” sets this entry apart from the many fine contestants in this category.

See all of the winners 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.