Bloomberg executive editor named co-chair of Pulitzer board

Longtime business journalist Amanda Bennett, the executive editor of Bloomberg News, has been named the co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize board. David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Stanford University professor and co-director of a center that studies the American West, is the other co-chair. Bennett and Kennedy have served on the Pulitzer board since 2002. […]

Behind the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's prize-winning flipping series

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The Sarasota Herald-Tribune series on real estate flipping has garnered a lot of attention in the past few weeks. It was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and on Friday, it received a National Journalism Award from the Scripps-Howard Foundation. The Herald-Tribune reviewed approximately 19 million Florida real estate transactions to […]

Overseas Press Club hands out business reporting awards

The Overseas Press Club has awarded the New York Times and Vanity Fair its awards for international business reporting. Michael Lewis won the Morton Frank Award for business reporting from abroad in magazines for “Wall Street on the Tundra” in Vanity Fair. Judges said the article was “a richly reported and engaging account of Iceland’s […]

Three reasons why the WSJ hasn't won a Pulitzer in three years

Peter Kadzis of the Boston Phoenix notes that The Wall Street Journal is the only paper among the four — with the other three being the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times — that have dominated the Pulitzers in recent years to go three years without winning at least one. He speculates […]

The business news Pulitzer that no one noticed

In the past 24-plus hours there has been a lot of hand wringing about the lack of a Pulitzer Prize in business journalism this year. For example, on Monday, shortly after the Pulitzers were announced, Columbia Journalism Review writer Ryan Chittum tweeted the following: “Business journalism shut out of Pulitzers–again. I’d say that’s a statement.” […]

More on WSJ's lack of Pulitzers

Aaron Elstein of Crain’s New York Business writes Monday about the Wall Street Journal being shut out of winning a Pulitzer Prize for the third consecutive year. Elstein writes, “It has come close a couple of times since. It was a finalist in 2009 for its coverage of the financial collapse and a finalist again […]

WSJ shut out of Pulitzers — again

John Koblin of the New York Observer notes that the Wall Street Journal, which used to win Pulitzer Prizes with regularity, has not won one since Rupert Murdoch purchased Dow Jones & Co. Koblin writes, “Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal, which was once a Pulitzer-hoarder under Paul Steiger, once again goes home empty-handed. The paper […]

ACBJ paper named Pulitzer finalist

The Puget Sound Business Journal, an American City Business Journals paper, was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the explanatory reporting category on Monday. It’s the first time that an ACBJ paper has been named a finalist for the most prestigious awards in journalism. “I think every newsroom — not just at ACBJ but […]

Deadline Club finalists announced

The Deadline Club Awards honor the best in New York area journalism – printed, broadcast or otherwise distributed in 2009. Winners will be honored at the Annual Awards Dinner on Monday, June 7. Here are the finalists in the business journalism categories: Business Feature Mark Bowden, Vanity Fair, “The Inheritance” Jeff Chu, Fast Company, “The […]

Two biz stories make top 10 for the decade

New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has released its picks for the 10 best journalism stories of the past decade, and two of them are business stories. “The Giant Pool of Money,” by Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson on National Public Radio’s “This American Life” ranked No. 4. The judges stated, “This hour-long […]