Public Integrity wins Sidney Award for debt collection investigation
A Center for Public Integrity investigation into states’ harsh and often counterproductive collections tactics for unpaid income tax has won the January Sidney Award. The prize is awarded by the Sidney Hillman Foundation to an “outstanding piece of journalism that appeared in the prior month.” Among the findings: at least nine states can suspend or decline to […]
WSJ’s Gershkovich to receive National Press Foundation citation
Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been wrongfully detained by Russia for nearly 300 days, has been selected for this year’s National Press Foundation’s Chairman’s Citation. “The National Press Foundation supports the cause of a free press. Evan Gershkovich‘s detention is a wrongful act against the fundamentals of journalism, and his prompt release […]
NY Times reporter Craig, Pulitzer winner, receives Order of Canada
New York Times reporter Susanne Craig, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on Donald Trump’s finances, has received the Order of Canada, one of rhe nation’s highest honors. Brian MacLeod of The Windsor Star reports, “‘I can’t believe it,’ she said of her Order of Canada appointment. ‘I’m still kind of shocked about it.’ […]
SABEW’s Best in Business contest accepting entries
Starting its 29th year of honoring outstanding business journalism work, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing’s Best in Business Awards for 2023 is now open for entries. Enter for a chance to win the most prestigious award in business news. The competition will cover work published, broadcast and posted in the calendar year […]
Edmondson wins FT’s Business Book of the Year
Amy Edmondson is the winner of the 2023 Business Book of the Year Award for “Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive” about “intelligent failure” and how to take more sensible risks. The competition is sponsored by the Financial Times and Schroders. The award recognizes a work which provides […]
Dreier of NY Times wins WERT Prize for migrant child labor coverage
Hannah Dreier, an investigative reporter at The New York Times, won the WERT Global Prize for outstanding business reporting by a woman for “Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.” and related stories exposing a migrant child labor scandal involving some of the world’s largest corporations. The award is given by […]
Hilsenrath, Tozzi to receive Welles Prize from Columbia
The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia Journalism School announced Wednesday that a reporter from Bloomberg News and a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal have won the 2023 Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize. The Welles Prize judges singled out two Knight-Bagehot alumni to receive the award: Jon Hilsenrath, Class of 1995-1996, and John […]
LA Times, Public Health Watch and KPCC among Barlett & Steele winners
With business-labor relations dominating the headlines in recent months, it’s fitting that richly reported accounts of the devastating impact to workers from business practices in two different industries took the top prizes in the 17th Annual Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism. The Los Angeles Times won the top honor among global and […]
LA Times, Washington Post win Loeb Awards
The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and Reuters each won two Gerald Loeb Awards at an award ceremony in New York on Thursday. The Times won in the local reporting category. The coverage was titled “Legal Weed, Broken Promises” and the staffers were Adam Elmahrek, Paige St. John, Robert J. Lopez, Ruben Vives, Marisa Gerber, Kiera Feldman and Brian van der […]
Gershkovich to receive Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism
Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter jailed in Russia for nearly 150 days, will receive the 2023 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism from Colby College. Gershkovich, who writes about Russia for The Journal, has been detained in Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison since his arrest in late March. Gershkovich joined the Journal’s Moscow bureau […]
