Bloomberg News celebrates 25th anniversary
Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait sent out the following announcement on Sunday evening: To Editorial & Research: Twenty-five years ago on June 14, Bloomberg published its first news story. It seems unlikely that those six reporters, led by Matt Winkler, could have envisioned what news at Bloomberg looks like today. On the terminal we […]
Furman receives Malcolm Forbes award
Phyllis Furman, a freelance financial writer, received the Malcolm S. Forbes award presented by the Financial Planning Association of New York. The award was created by the New York Chapter in response to the FPA’s national consumer financial education campaign. Past Award recipients include the late Louis Rukeyser, Consuelo Mack, anchor for PBS’ WealthTrack TV […]
SABEW accepting entries for Birger Award
Entries are being accepted for the second annual Society of American Business Editors and Writers award honoring a top young business journalist. The winner will receive $1,500 plus an expense paid trip to New York where the award will be presented during at SABEW’s annual fall conference. The Larry Birger Young Business Journalist Award is named […]
Barlett & Steele Awards accepting entries
Applications are now being accepted for the Barlett & Steele Awards In Investigative Business Journalism. The annual contest, administered by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, honors the best investigative business journalism. Named for two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Don Barlett and Jim Steele, recognition includes a gold award of $5,000, a silver prize […]
Grant to receive lifetime Loeb; Blumenstein to receive Minard award
The recipients of the Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award were announced Thursday by the G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is James Grant, founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. This annual award recognizes an individual whose […]
Finalists announced for Loeb Awards
The finalists of the 2015 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism were announced Thursday: Beat Reporting Category Finalists Zachary R. Mider for “Tax Runaways” – Bloomberg News Michael Brick for “Michael Brick, Texas Energy” – Houston Chronicle David Sirota for “Public Money, Private Profits” – International Business Times Eric Lipton, Ben Protess, […]
Fortune, NY Times among Deadline Club winners for biz journalism
Fortune and the New York Times were among the financial news media that won 2015 awards from the Deadline Club. The winners were announced Tuesday night in New York. Peter Elkind and Marty Jones of Fortune won the award for best business feature for “Citizenship for Sale,” which examined how rich foreigners are able to […]
Bloomberg wins Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize
Asia Society announced Wednesday that a three-person team from Bloomberg News has won the 2015 Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia, awarded annually for the best example of journalism about Asia during the previous calendar year. Selected by an independent jury, the winning stories by Rakteem Katakey, Tom Lasseter and Rajesh Kumar […]
WSJ’s Gigot named chair of Pulitzer board
Paul Gigot, the editorial page editor and vice president of The Wall Street Journal, has been elected chair of the Pulitzer Prize board. Gigot succeeds Danielle Allen, a scholar and author who is the incoming director of the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. The Pulitzer Board chairmanship is a one-year appointment. […]
How Bloomberg News won a Pulitzer Prize
Bloomberg News produced a video about the series of articles by reporter Zach Mider that won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. The series of articles was about corporate tax inversions. It was the first Pulitzer awarded to Bloomberg.
