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Biz reporters win Foreign Press Association award

A staffer at the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and a Reuters reporter have won the Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2011 for financial/economic reporting.

Kelly Carr of the Reynolds Center and Brian Grow won for a report called “A Little House of Secrets on the Great Plains”on the use of U.S. shell and shelf companies.

Carr is the Reynolds Center’s senior online producer. She has worked as a reporter for several newspapers, most recently The Arizona Republic, and has been an adjunct professor at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She worked on the Reuters series as a freelancer.

Grow is special enterprise correspondent on Reuters’ global enterprise team. He won the Reynolds Center’s Barlett & Steele Award for Investigative Business Journalism in 2008 for a BusinessWeek story “Prisoners of Debt.”

The other 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.