Forbes, ProPublica and NY Times win biz Deadline Club awards
Forbes and a joint project between ProPublica and the New York Times were the winners in this year’s Deadline Club awards in the business journalism categories. The best business feature winner was Dan Alexander and Matt Drange of Forbes for “Trump Tenants.” The judges wrote: They report numerous possible conflicts of interest, involving tenants who […]
Barlett & Steele Awards now accepting entries
Entries are now being accepted for the 2019 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, the nation’s top investigative business journalism contest. The annual awards contest, named in honor of renowned investigative business journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, celebrates the best in investigative business journalism each year. It is sponsored by […]
Wolf wins Loeb Lifetime Award; Miller wins Minard Editor Award
The 2019 Lifetime Achievement Gerald Loeb Award recipient is Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times in London. Wolf was educated at Oxford University. Before starting his journalism career in 1987 at the Financial Times, he was a senior economist at the World Bank and director of studies at the […]
2019 Loeb Award finalists are announced
The following 2019 Gerald Loeb Award finalists were chosen from more than 475 entries submitted in all mediums by local, regional and national outlets and individual journalists: Audio Category Finalists Liz Essley White, Joe Yerardi and Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak for “Medicaid, Under the Influence” – The Center for Public Integrity and NPR Will Evans, Alyssa […]
Bloomberg’s Ovide named finalist in columnist competition
Shira Ovide of Bloomberg Opinion has been named a finalist in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual competition. Ovide is a finalist in the print publication over 50,000 circulation category. Ovide is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. Ovide was previously a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, writing about technology from its San […]
New York Financial Writers announces scholarship winners
The New York Financial Writers’ Association announced Friday the winners of its 2019 annual scholarships for aspiring financial journalists. This year the NYFWA awarded $25,000 in scholarships of $5,000 each to a group of students from New York City area schools. The winners of this year’s scholarships are: Ben Foldy, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, […]
McGraw Center now accepting fellowship applications
The McGraw Center for Business Journalism is now accepting applications for the Summer 2019 McGraw Fellowships for Business Journalism, an initiative of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. The Fellowships, awarded twice a year, provide experienced journalists with the funds and editorial support needed to produce a high-impact […]
Casey Foundation gives fellowships, scholarships for poverty coverage
The Marguerite Casey Foundation announced the winners of journalism awards to promote reliable reporting on poverty and community leadership by families. The Marguerite Casey Foundation Journalism Fellowships and Scholarships support journalism that helps the public and policymakers better understand the experience and progress of families working to alleviate poverty in the U.S. “Journalists play a […]
Journal Sentinel, Fortune win National Headliner Awards
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Rick Barrett has won first place in business news coverage in the 85th National Headliner Awards. The awards are given by The Press Club of Atlantic City. The judges wrote: Hundreds of Wisconsin dairy farms are going under as a glut of milk on the market collapses prices and profits. Rick Barrett’s […]
Bloomberg series on predatory lending wins Fairness in Journalism award
The Bloomberg News investigation “Sign Here to Lose Everything,” a five-part series about predatory lending practices in the merchant cash-advance industry, is winner of the 2018 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism. Reported by Zachary Mider and Zeke Faux, the series revealed how an obscure legal document called a ‘confession of judgment’ used New […]
