Biz copy editor Newton wins top ACES award
The American Copy Editors Society announced that Larissa Newton, copy editor at Central Penn Business Journal, as the 2014 Robinson Award winner. Newton received $3,000 and an engraved glass plaque as her prize today at the 19th annual ACES conference in Pittsburgh, Pa. “(Journalism) is a tough profession to be in. You really have to […]
SABEW announces finalists for Canadian Best in Business
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers Canada announced Wednesday the list of nominees for its first-ever Canadian Best In Business competition, which recognizes outstanding business reporting published or broadcast in 2014. The nominees represent some of Canada’s most venerable news organizations, including Canadian Business, Bloomberg Canada, The Globe and Mail, the Wall Street […]
Grant wins Hayek Prize for “The Forgotten Depression”
Jim Grant, the founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, has been named the winner of the 2015 Hayek Book Prize for his book “The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash that Cured Itself” (Simon & Schuster). Grant will receive a $50,000 award and will deliver the annual Hayek lecture in New York in June. Amity Shlaes, […]
SABEW announces Best in Business Awards
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers announced Monday honorees in its prestigious 20th annual Best in Business competition, which recognizes outstanding business stories published or aired in 2014. The 119 honored works represent all corners of financial news, from Institutional Investor to Fortune Magazine and National Public Radio, and from Crain’s Chicago Business […]
WSJ reporter Burne elected NYFWA president
Katy Burne, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has been elected president of the New York Financial Writers’ Association. Burne writes about credit markets and derivatives for the Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in New York. Her coverage areas include bonds and loans, credit-default swaps and interest-rate swaps, trading technology/platforms, market structure and regulation. […]
Four journalists win grants from McGraw Center for Business Journalism
Four veteran journalists have won grants of up to $15,000 as recipients of the second round of the McGraw Fellowships for Business Journalism. The winning projects will explore the rise of genetic medical tests, efforts to improve safety at Bangladesh’s troubled textile factories, the link between digital labor and the de-skilling of the American workplace, and […]
ICIJ wins Polk Award for business reporting
The George Polk Award for Business Reporting will recognize The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a group of 120 journalists from 58 countries and 42 news organizations, working as part of The Center for Public Integrity, for “Offshore Secrets,” which examined new ways that wealthy companies and individuals avoided taxes. A three-year investigation documented tax […]
Reuters photograph to receive lifetime achievement award
Larry Downing, senior photographer with Reuters, will receive the White House News Photographers Association Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual awards gala in May. Downing began covering the White House for U.P.I. in 1978 when Jimmy Carter was president. Since that time Downing has been assigned by Newsweek magazine and since 1997 by Reuters to […]
Biz magazines shut out of Ellies
None of the business and financial publications among those nominated as National Magazine Awards 2015 finalists won during the award ceremony on Monday. That’s in contrast to 2014, when Fast Company won the award of Magazine of the Year, the top award. This year, Harvard Business Review and Inc. were finalists in the special interest […]
Real estate reporting contest seeks entries
The National Association of Real Estate Editors has issued a call for entries for NAREE’s 65th Annual Journalism Competition. Twenty-five categories will recognize excellence in digital, print and broadcast journalism. Winners will be announced at NAREE’s Miami journalism conference June 24-27, expected to draw hundreds of journalists and real estate industry speakers to Florida. NAREE’s […]
