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Barlett & Steele Award entries being accepted

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is accepting applications for the 2011 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism at BusinessJournalism.org.

Named for two-time Pulitzer Prize winners Don Barlett and Jim Steele, the fifth annual awards celebrate the best in print and online investigative business journalism. This year, a bronze award of $1,000 has been added, joining the gold award of $5,000 and the silver award of $2,000.

“Don and I have an informal motto: ‘Tell the reader something they don’t know,'” said Steele. “It sounds simple. Yet a lot of journalism is a rehash of what people already know.”

Judges will be looking for investigative enterprise, strong business theme, elegant writing style, clarity and impact.

Entries must have appeared in print or online in the year that ended June 30, 2011. Deadline to apply online is Aug. 1.

For more information, visit BusinessJournalism.org, or email or call center president Andrew Leckey at (602) 496-9186.

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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