NBC News, STAT, CNN Business win Eppy Awards

The following winners have been named winners in the annual EPPY Awards for digital media: Best Business Reporting on a Website with 1-million unique monthly visitors and over went to “NBC News Reporting Series: The Paycheck Protection Program” by NBC News. The finalists were Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News. Best Business Reporting on a Website […]

Sorkin recognized as business news visionary

Dean Rotbart of 2020 Business News Visionaries recognized Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times and CNBC. Rotbart writes, “Before Andrew even graduated Scarsdale High, he had talked his way into an internship at The New York Times. In 2001, at the ripe old age of 24, he convinced publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. to let […]

HBR’s Ignatius honored as 2020 Business News Visionary

Harvard Business Review editor in chief Adi Ignatius has been named a 2020 Business News Visionary. Dean Rotbart writes, “Coming aboard the Harvard Business Review as editor in chief in 2009, Adi Ignatius faced an unusual challenge: How to make HBR’s content resonate with a new generation of readers without losing the brand identity that made it distinctive and highly […]

Walsh of NY Times wins Welles Prize from Columbia

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia Journalism School announced Thursday that a reporter from The New York Times  won the 2020 Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize. Mary Williams Walsh, ‘83 Knight-Bagehot, a financial reporter at The Times, has been awarded the 2020 Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize for her impressive body […]

Fry wins WERT Prize from Columbia

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia Journalism School announced Wednesday that a reporter from  Fortune won the WERT Prize for Outstanding Global Business Reporting by a female journalist. Erika Fry, a senior writer for Fortune, has won the 2020 WERT Prize for her piece “Epidemic of Fear(link is external),” charting the years-long […]

SABEW Canada names Best in Business award winners

The Canadian chapter of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) announced Wednesday the winners of the 6th Annual Best in Business Awards competition, recognizing outstanding business reporting published in 2019. Audio or Visual Storytelling Gold  Sean Stanleigh, Stephanie Chan, Laura Regehr, Ann Lang and Tara Deschamps (The Globe and Mail), “Industry interrupted” Silver […]

Barber to receive Loeb Lifetime Achievement, Galloni to receive Minard award

The Gerald Loeb Awards have announced the following honorees: The 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is Lionel Barber, former editor of the Financial Times, London. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a journalist whose career exemplifies the consistent, superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of business, financial and economic issues. Barber’s journalism career has spanned more […]

Gerald Loeb Award finalists announced; event to be in 3D

The following 2020 Gerald Loeb Awards finalists were chosen from more than 485 entries submitted in all mediums by local, regional and national outlets and individual journalists: AUDIO FINALISTS “The Shrink Next Door” – Bloomberg and WonderyJoe Nocera, Krista Rypl, Francesca Levy, Jared Sandberg, Katie Boyce, George Lavender, Marshall Lewy, Hernan Lopez and Maya Kaufman “The Antitrust Trilogy” – NPR’s Planet MoneyKenny Malone, Jacob Goldstein and Julia Simon “Amazon: Behind […]

SABEW names shortlist for book award

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced Thursday the shortlist for its inaugural Best in Business Book competition, which recognizes and celebrates outstanding business books published between July 30, 2019 and July 30, 2020. A prestigious panel of judges, led by Pattie Sellers, selected the top five books and seven honorable mentions from 41 entries. […]

FT/McKinsey announce finalists for Business Book of the Year

Books about the future of work, corporate culture, technology and the US economy feature among the six finalists for Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, reports Andrew Hill of the Financial Times. Hill reports, “The finalists are: “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, which is based on […]