McGraw Center for Biz Journalism hands out five grants
Five veteran journalists have been named the latest recipients of the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism. Each of the winning projects will receive a grant of up to $15,000. The new McGraw Fellows will explore subjects ranging from the emerging market for biodiversity credits and fraud schemes that target tribal corporations, to the impact of chemicals […]
Bloomberg’s Olson wins FT’s Business Book of the Year
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson has won the Business Book of the Year award from the Financial Times and Schroders. Her book is “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World,” which tracks the rivalry between Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind and Sam Altman of OpenAI, as they sought to apply artificial intelligence to […]
SABEW’s Best in Business competition now accepting entries
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing is now accepting entries for its Best in Business Awards. Deadlines: Early-bird deadline — Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, at 5 p.m. ET Competition deadline — Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, at 5 p.m. ET Late deadline — Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, at noon ET New this year: After […]
WSJ’s Trofimov wins Peterson Prize
Wall Street Journal reporter Yaroslav Trofimov has won the 2024 Peterson Literary Prize for his book “Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence.” The winner is awarded $25,000 and the book’s publisher receives $5,000. The Peterson Literary Prize for nonfiction is a biennial international prize that recognizes the best books, […]
Politico’s Guggenheim wins Dirksen award
Politico tax policy reporter Benjamin Guggenheim has been awarded the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress for his groundbreaking investigation, “The 401(k) industry owns Congress’: How lawmakers quietly passed a $300 billion windfall to the wealthy.” The award is given by the National Press Foundation. The Dirksen award recognizes journalists whose work […]
STAT, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance among the EPPY Award winners
Here are the business news-related winners from the annual EPPY Awards, given out by Editor and Publisher to recognize the best in digital journalism: Best Business/ Finance Website (Fewer than 1 million unique visitors) Winner: STAT, Business of Health and Medicine Judge’s comments: “STAT News is committed to delivering highly researched and balanced reporting on […]
Economist’s Bennet, WSJ’s Morrow receive awards
The Fund for American Studies presented James Bennet of The Economist with the Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Award for Courageous Journalism and Lance Morrow of The Wall Street Journal with the Thomas L. Phillips Career Achievement Award on Tuesday at its awards dinner. Bennet is Lexington columnist and a senior editor at The Economist. The award is given to honor his excellence in […]
SABEW names Best in Business Book winners
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced Wednesday the winners and finalists for its fifth annual Best in Business Book Awards, which recognizes and celebrates outstanding business journalism in books published between Aug. 1, 2023, and July 31, 2024. The book, Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR’s Fight to […]
NY Times wins Scripps Howard award in business journalism
The New York Times has won the Scripps Howard Award in business and financial reporting for “Alone and Exploited.” The Times’ Hannah Dreier brought attention to the United States’ failure to keep children out of unsafe working conditions and how young immigrants end up illegally working exhausting and dangerous jobs. Dreier’s work has also won a […]
Carville wins WERT Prize for second time in three years
Bloomberg News reporter Olivia Carville has won the WERT Prize from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for the second time in three years. Carville was awarded the 2024 WERT Global Prize for a series of stories that masterfully drove home the many dangers of social media to the mental health and safety of young people. […]
