ACBJ names company editorial winners

ACBJ logo Charlotte-based American City Business Journals named the winners of its News Awards contest among its 40-plus business newspapers.

Winners were determined by a vote from its editors in chiefs, except for Best Audience Engagement.

BEST BEAT REPORTING

(tie) Adam Sichko, who covers real estate for the Nashville Business Journal, and Matthew Kish, who covers Nike and sports business for the Portland Business Journal

BEST ENTERPRISE REPORTING

Baltimore Business Journal

BEST DATA REPORTING

(tie) Nashville Business Journal and Washington Business Journal

BEST VISUAL STORYTELLING

Washington Business Journal

BEST AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT

Atlanta Business Chronicle

The 2015 winners can be found here.

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.