ACBJ papers pick their best reporters, coverage

Editors at American City Business Journals newspapers across the country voted on their best across the company.

Here are the winners:

Best Real Estate Beat Coverage: Adam Sichko, Nashville Business Journal
Best Technology Beat Coverage: Ashley Stewart, Puget Sound Business Journal
Best Beat Coverage, All Others: Matt Kish, Retail, Portland Business Journal
Best Breaking News Coverage: Kansas City Business Journal, Project Toto
Best Data Reporting: Washington Business Journal
Best Explanatory Reporting: Washington Business Journal, Inside the cancer moonshot
Best Investigative Reporting: Boston Business Journal, It pays to be in higher ed
Best Visual Storytelling: Washington Business Journal
Best Audience Engagement: Austin Business Journal
General Excellence: Portland Business Journal

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.