“Deforestation Inc” wins Oakes Award

“Deforestation Inc.” by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has won the 2024 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. The in-depth investigative series exposed how a lightly regulated sustainability industry overlooks forest destruction and human rights violations, all while granting green certifications that provide false assurances to consumers, governments and investors. Led by […]

Bloomberg, STAT News among the SPJ award winners

Bloomberg News and STAT News received recognition in the annual Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists. Business/Finance Reporting Denied by AI: Consequences for vulnerable Americans Casey Ross and Bob Herman, STAT Read story Read story: Link 1 | 2 | 3 Consumer/Retail Reporting Bad Medicine Staff, Bloomberg Read story: Link 1 | 2 | 3 Tech Reporting […]

STAT’s McFarlang wins Lo Award for her coverage

Usha Lee McFarling, national science correspondent at STAT, has been named the recipient of the 2024 Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics. This year’s award recognizes McFarling for her role in shaping the public discussion and policy debate about bioethics and equity in health care and research. It conveys a cash prize of $25,000. With the […]

Bloomberg, NY Times, WSJ among National Press Club award winners

Bloomberg, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal were winners Friday of National Press Club Journalism Awards. Emily Steel, Sydney Ember and Mike Baker of the Times won the Michael A. Dornheim Award for their insider look at issues facing air traffic controllers in their investigative piece, “Flight Risks.” The Wall Street Journal […]

SABEW Canada names Best in Business winners

The Canadian chapter of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced the winners of the 10th annual Best In Business Canada Awards on Monday night at an event in Toronto. The Globe and Mail led all outlets, outdoing their first-place showing last year with six gold awards and five silvers, which include wins […]

Alliance of Area Business Publishers names editorial winners

The Alliance of Area Business Publishers named its 2024 Editorial Excellence Awards at a banquet in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Friday. The winners are: DESIGN CATEGORIES 1. Best Cover – Magazine Bronze: Insight On Business; “Going for Gold (March 2023)”; Brian Rasmussen, Amelia Compton Wolff Bright colors, a proud subject, and a humorous and conceptual […]

Real estate journalism winners announced

The National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) announced the winners of its 74th Annual Journalism Awards today. This prestigious competition recognizes excellence in reporting, writing, and editing stories about residential and commercial real estate. The awards were announced at NAREE’s annual conference held at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas. A panel of expert […]

McGraw Center gives fellowships to four journalists

Four 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 labor conditions in California’s agriculture sector and the housing crisis in Montana’s Indian Country, to the impact of […]

SABEW Canada announces Best in Business finalists

The Canadian chapter of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced the finalists for its 10th annual Best in Business Awards competition, recognizing outstanding Canadian business reporting published and produced in 2023. This year, the BIB Canada Awards received close to 200 entries, just shy of the record number received last year. These […]

WSJ’s Gershkovich to receive Pearl Award

The Los Angeles Press Club announced Tuesday that the 2024 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism will go to Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal, the same outlet Daniel Pearl worked for. “We are extremely pleased to see the Daniel Pearl Award being awarded to Evan Gershkovich who, like Danny before […]