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Barlett & Steele Awards now accepting entries

The Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, honoring the best in business journalism, are now accepting entries for 2016.

The awards are run by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University.

Applications will be accepted only online and from editors or the contest coordinator designated by your news organization. Entries for the 2016 award must have appeared in the year ending June 30, 2016. Each media outlet may submit no more than two entries.

Applicants must submit:

*Contact information for the editor submitting the entry.

*An editor’s letter outlining any (a) obstacles in reporting, (b) reforms or impact after publication and (c) corrections or challenges to accuracy. It can be submitted as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.

*Up to four articles for each individual entry, submitted as either an active URL or as an Adobe PDF. A sidebar counts as an article. Scroll down for other notes.

Questions? Email Andrew Leckey, Reynolds Center President, at andrew.leckey@asu.edu, or call 602-496-9186.

To apply, go 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.