WSJ’s Horwitz and team win NYFWA Impact Award

Jeff Horwitz

Jeff Horwitz and a team of Wall Street Journal journalists as the winners of the 2022 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism from the New York Financial Writers’ Association.

Horwitz and a team of journalists from the Journal won for their “Facebook Files” series, which details Facebook’s knowledge of the harmful impact of Instagram on young users –particularly teenage girls, and how the company hid and played down this knowledge.

(View the winning articles here.)

Following the award presentation on Oct. 24, Horwitz and members of the winning team will take part in a panel discussing the story behind their series of articles – from how they reported and found their sources, to where they found key data and how they dealt with Facebook executives.

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.