Bloomberg Businessweek receives reinvention recognition

Bloomberg Businessweek was named by Media Industry Newsletter as one of the hottest reinventions of the year at its annual “Most Intriguing” event in New York City on Thursday. After being acquired by Bloomberg L.P. in 2009, Bloomberg Businessweek relaunched in April 2010 under the leadership of editor Josh Tyrangiel. The new Bloomberg Businessweek features […]

SABEW's Best in Business contest adds new divisions

The annual Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ Best in Business contest will open Jan. 4 with several new divisions and a new emphasis on non-traditional business news media. The 16th annual competition has been redesigned to recognize recent developments in the coverage of business news while retaining the core elements of the largest […]

Bloomberg Businessweek wins award from Foreign Press Association

Bloomberg Businessweek walked away with the award for best financial/economic reporting at the Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2010. Bloomberg Businessweek journalist James Sterngold’s report ‘Who Cares About Another $200 Million?’ on former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld failing to declare hundreds of millions of  dollars worth of compensation to U.S. Congress, appeared in the […]

Biz media win Vanguard awards

The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal received awards in Advertising Age’s Media Vanguard Awards, announced Monday. The Financial Times won in the Global Spotlight category for its Alphaville blog. Advertising Age said, “Alphaville moves fast, tailors coverage to what the readers find interesting and doesn’t shy away from something truly foreign to markets […]

Reynolds Center picks fellows for training

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has selected 30 fellows — 15 journalists and 15 professors — for four days of intensive study in business journalism. They will attend separate, all-expenses-paid seminars Jan. 4 to Jan. 7 at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix.  Journalists in […]

Detroit personal finance columnist wins award

Brian J. O’Connor, personal finance columnist for The Detroit News, has been named winner of the Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize at Columbia University. The award goes to an exemplary piece of business journalism produced in the last 12 months by an alumnus of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship. O’Connor, a Knight-Bagehot Fellow from the class of […]

American City names winners in company contest

The Puget Sound Business Journal and the Nashville Business Journal were multiple winners in the American City Business Journals‘ annual Eagle Awards, which laud the best work among its 40 business weeklies. The Seattle-based paper was named a winner in the general excellence category, and was also named a winner in the categories of best […]

Kandel wins honor from Missouri School of Journalism

Myron Kandel, one of the top business journalists of the 20th century, is one of this year’s recipients of the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the University of Missouri’s journalism school. Kandel was recognized for his vision and hard work in helping citizens understand the world of business. Kandel pioneered financial […]

Economist, Businessweek, Harvard Business Review win Olin prizes

The Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis announced the winners of the first Olin Corporate Strategy Prize honoring the best business journalism covering a company experiencing significant strategic change. The business school hopes the annual prize will help to expand awareness and understanding among business school students and the general business public […]

Reuters, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel win Barlett & Steele awards

Reuters received the gold award and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the silver award in the fourth annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced Monday. “Diagnosed with Breast Cancer, Dropped by Insurer” by Murray Waas of Reuters received the top gold award of $5,000. […]