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“An Ugly Truth” wins SABEW Best in Business Book award

Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced Monday that “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination” is the winner for its second annual Best in Business Book Awards.

The competition recognizes and celebrates outstanding business journalism in books published between July 31, 2020, and July 31, 2021.

The book is written by New York Times technology reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, and was published by HarperCollins.

“’An Ugly Truth’ focuses on the tech story of the year – Facebook’s fall from grace,” said Pattie Sellers, head judge and co-CEO of SellersEaston Media. “Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang’s storytelling is rigorous, compelling, and timely.”

Kang and Frenkel will be recognized during a webinar “A Conversation with Best in Business Book Award Winner.” The date and time will be announced later.

The judges also selected two finalists from the 30 entries received — “The Devil’s Playbook: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation” by Lauren Etter (published by Crown) and “The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves” by J.B. MacKinnon (Ecco).

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.

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