ACBJ names annual editorial winners

Charlotte-based American City Business Journals, which operates 43 business newspapers and websites across the country, held its annual editor’s meeting earlier this week and selected the best business journalism work in the past year by its papers.

The winners were selected by the editors, and the awards are now called the Editor’s Choice awards.

Matthew Kish of the Portland Business Journal won the best beat reporter award. Read an interview with Kish about how he covers his beat here.

The Cincinnati Business Courier won for best audience engagement through its use of social media.

The Birmingham Business Journal won for best enterprise reporting.

The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times won for best visual storytelling.

The Washington Business Journal won for best data reporting.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.