NBR founders to receive lifetime Emmy
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Thursday it will present this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Business & Financial Reporting to Paul Kangas, anchor and financial commentator for PBS’ Nightly Business Report, and Linda O’Bryon, the founder of the pioneering business news broadcast and now chief content officer of Northern California Public […]
Triangle Biz Journal, Silicon Valley Biz Journal win top company awards
The Triangle Business Journal, located in Raleigh, N.C., and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal won theGeneral Excellence awards given by its parent company, American City Business Journals, at an awards ceremony last week. A Triangle Business Journal story states, “The general excellence award is given annually to the ACBJ papers with the best total […]
CEOs and awards from the biz press
Two business school professors have discovered that CEOs who win awards from business magazines tend to underperform their peers. Elizabeth O’Sullivan from Corporate Board Member writes, “That’s the word from two professors who studied the performance of CEOs presented with accolades by the likes of BusinessWeek, Chief Executive, Forbes, IndustryWeek, Time/CNN, and Electronic Business Magazine. […]
Barlett & Steele winners named
The Miami Herald received the gold award and Bloomberg Markets magazine the silver award in the third annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced Wednesday. “Borrowers Betrayed” by Jack Dolan, Matthew Haggman and Rob Barry of The Miami Herald received the top gold […]
Four journalists win award to attend Wharton program
Four journalists who have won the 2009 Knowledge@Wharton Awards for Business Journalism, sponsored by the South Asian Journalists Association, the Wharton School and the Knowledge@Wharton online business journal. The winners are: Sonia Narang, a member of SAJA and a journalist with NBC News in New York, is the winner of the 10th annual SAJA-Knowledge@Wharton Award. […]
Latino personal finance reporting winners named
Journalists from The Roanoke Times, El Sentinel, and Real Atlanta will receive the first McGraw-Hill Personal Finance Journalism Awards, according to the International Center for Journalists. The winners produced stories that helped raise financial literacy in Hispanic communities. The journalists were among 30 reporters from print, online, radio and television news organizations who participated in […]
Reynolds Center offering fellowships
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is offering fellowships worth $2,000 for four days of study in business journalism Jan. 5 through Jan. 8 in Phoenix. Fellowships cover training, lodging, materials and most meals. Fellows receive a $500 stipend to offset travel and other costs. The seminars will occur during Reynolds Business […]
Pulitzer winner Berzon leaving Las Vegas paper for WSJ
Alexandra Berzon, the Las Vegas Sun business reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year for her coverage of construction deaths on The Strip, is leaving the paper at the end of the month for a job at The Wall Street Journal. Berzon says she will be moving to the Los Angeles area and […]
Financial TV's pioneer looks back
Baltimore Sun business columnist Jay Hancock profiles Anne Darlington, the Maryland Public Television employee who came up with the idea for “Wall Street Week” with Louis Rukeyser. Hancock writes, “The viewers were there. They just didn’t know it. Americans were saving. Women were joining the workforce. Yet the stock market was still seen as occult […]
Fortune Small Business wins award
Fortune Small Business and The Scientist took honors as the Magazines of the Year in the 31st Annual Azbee Awards of Excellence presented by the American Society of Business Publication Editors. The group’s 2009 Stephen Barr Award for feature writing went to Frank Lessiter, editor of a 7,000-circulation publication for horse-shoers, American Farriers Journal, for […]
